{"id":2888,"date":"2022-08-03T16:52:17","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T08:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.foxwood.sg\/?p=2888"},"modified":"2022-08-04T16:24:15","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T08:24:15","slug":"artist-spotlight-casper-kang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foxwood.sg\/artist-spotlight-casper-kang\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Spotlight \u2013 Casper Kang"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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IG: @casper_kang
Born: 1981
Hometown: Toronto
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Casper Kang has always enjoyed the arts, though he never thought to pursue it seriously until he moved to Seoul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After attaining his bachelor\u2019s degree in Architecture at Carleton University and a 2-year period working at several architectural firms, he abandoned the corporate world to pursue a painting career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Asterisks frequently appear in most of his works, as both his signature and logo. Symbolizing that which is \u201cspecial\u201d and emphasizing the sentimental quality of \u201capathetic personal interpretation\u201d in modern society. As an asterisk is used to signify something of importance in a text, Casper Kang\u2019s asterisk paintings, when hung in a certain space, announce that that space is \u201cspecial\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    2011- Banishment I, II, III, IV, V<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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    2012, Casper Kang Renders Images Utilizing Traditional Eastern Motifs. Psychedelic art and traditional Asian art are two forms of expression that attract vastly different crowds, but Casper Kang has managed to fuse the two styles together to create something inventive yet familiar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      Casper Kang\u2019s work centers around the futility of all things, up to and including the culture of his own motherland that is still so precious to him. It is, after all, only through full comprehension and acceptance of such meaninglessness that we can ever hope to reach real meaning. In this sense, by quite literally deconstructing Hanji, a medium of traditional Korean art, the artist empties it of all its cultural symbolism and themes. After all it is only then, rendered subject through this reversal, that the empty figure can truly know desire \u2014 the desire to be filled with the meaninglessness of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      Casper Kang\u2019s solo exhibition at Sophis Gallery<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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      Casper Kang has held 11 solo exhibitions along with over 30 group shows at venues such as Coreana Art Museum, Daelim Museum, Kyobo Art Space and M Contemporary. He has collaborated with variety of entities including Amore Pacific, Adidas, RYSE Hotel and Gentlemonster\u2019s beauty brand- Tamburin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      He currently continues to enjoy a fine arts career living in Seoul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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