“WILDERNESS”

110 X 110 CM X 6 PIECES

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2011 CASPER KANG

WILDERNESS I

WILDERNESS II

WILDERNESS III

WILDERNESS IV

WILDERNESS V

WILDERNESS VI

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2011 Casper Kang

“BANISHMENT”

91 X 116 CM X 5 PIECES

ACRYLIC AND SCREEN INK ON CANVAS

2011 CASPER KANG

BANISHMENT I

BANISHMENT II

BANISHMENT III

BANISHMENT IV

BANISHMENT V

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2011 Casper Kang

“SECLUSION”

480 X 130 CM

ACRYLIC AND SCREEN INK ON CANVAS

2011 CASPER KANG

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2011 Casper Kang

 

“PEGASUS”

40 X 40 CM X 30 PIECES

DIGITAL PIGMENT AND SCREEN INK ON CANVAS

2010 CASPER KANG

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2010 Casper Kang

“SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS(자의식)” PHASE 1

70 X 94 CM EACH

DIGITAL PIGMENT PRINT ON ARCHIVAL PAPER, CUSTOM PAINTED FRAMES

2010 CASPER KANG

PHASE 1

최 경 원 (Choi Kyung-Won)

지 현 정 (Ji Hyun-Jung)

정 지 성 (Jung Ji-Sung)

남 궁 철 (Nam-Gung Chul)

김 지 은 (Kim Ji-Eun)

송 주 호 (Song Ju-Ho)

이 하 정 (Lee Ha-Jung)

서 한 영 (Suh Han-Young)

구 송 이 (Koo Song-Yee)

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2010 Casper Kang

“CASH MONEY”

PORTRAITS OF KOREAN CASH

130 X 390 CM (3 PIECES)

ACRYLIC & SCREEN INK & INTERFERENCE ON CANVAS

2010 CASPER KANG


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신사임당


세종대왕

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2009 Casper Kang

“100% ASTERISK” X 3

45 X 53 CM EACH

ACRYLIC & SCREEN INK & INTERFERENCE ON CANVAS

2010 CASPER KANG

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2010 Casper Kang

“1000% ASTERISK”

130 X 160 CM

ACRYLIC & SCREEN INK & INTERFERENCE ON CANVAS

2010 CASPER KANG

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2010 Casper Kang

“MONEY STARS” (돈별)

PATTERNS FROM KOREAN MONEY

380 X 140 CM (21 PIECES)

ACRYLIC & SCREEN INK ON CANVAS

2010 CASPER KANG

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2009 Casper Kang

“1000% ASTERISK”

130 X 160 CM

ACRYLIC & SCREEN INK & INTERFERENCE ON CANVAS

2009 CASPER KANG

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2009 Casper Kang

“창녀시대” (PROSTITUTES’ GENERATION) (3 PIECES)

116 X 90 CM, 90 X 116 CM, 116 X 90 CM

ACRYLIC & INTERFERENCE & SCREEN INK ON CANVAS

2009 CASPER KANG


“고민고민하지마”


Varying interference effects visible depending upon lighting and angle of viewpoint.


“오늘밤매일밤”


Varying interference effects visible depending upon lighting and angle of viewpoint.


“소원을 말해봐”

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2009 Casper Kang

“DANCE DANCE DANCE”

390 X 160 CM

ACRYLIC & INTERFERENCE & SCREEN INK ON CANVAS

2009 CASPER KANG

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2009 Casper Kang

“OTTOGI” (오뚜기)

90.5 X 60 CM

ACRYLIC & INTERFERENCE & SCREEN INK ON CANVAS

2009 CASPER KANG

OTTOGI, Since 1969.

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“ORION” (오리온)

90.5 X 60 CM

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2009 CASPER KANG

ORION, Since 1956.

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2009 Casper Kang

“ORION” (오리온)

90.5 X 60 CM

ACRYLIC & INTERFERENCE & SCREEN INK ON CANVAS

2009 CASPER KANG


ORION, Since 1956.

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2009 Casper Kang

“NONGSHIM” (농심)

90.5 X 60 CM

ACRYLIC & INTERFERENCE & SCREEN INK ON CANVAS

2009 CASPER KANG

NONGSHIM, Since 1965.

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2009 Casper Kang

“NONGSHIM” (농심)

90.5 X 60 CM

ACRYLIC & INTERFERENCE & SCREEN INK ON CANVAS

2009 CASPER KANG

NONGSHIM, Since 1965.

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2009 Casper Kang

“ENVY”

116 X 90 CM

ACRYLIC & INTERFERENCE & SCREEN INK ON CANVAS

2009 CASPER KANG

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2009 Casper Kang

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“SCREW BAR” (GRAPE SHUKURU-BA(스크류바) UNDER RUNNING TAP WATER)

116 X 90 CM

ACRYLIC & INTERFERENCE & SCREEN INK ON CANVAS

2009 CASPER KANG

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2009 Casper Kang

“LUCID DREAM$”

116 X 90 CM

ACRYLIC & INTERFERENCE & SCREEN INK ON CANVAS

2009 CASPER KANG

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“EVA UNIT 01″

45 X 53 CM

6 PIECES

ACRYLIC & SCREEN INK ON CANVAS

2009 CASPER KANG

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2009 Casper Kang

“POCARI SWEAT” (금메달따고 포카리스웨트 마시다)

45 X 53 CM EACH

6 PIECES

ACRYLIC & SCREEN INK ON CANVAS

2008 CASPER KANG

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2009 Casper Kang

“DIASPORA I,II,III,IV,V”

130 X 160 CM EACH

ACRYLIC & SCREEN INK ON CANVAS

2008 CASPER KANG

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“DIASPORA I”

130 X 160 CM

ACRYLIC & SCREEN INK ON CANVAS

2008 CASPER KANG

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“DIASPORA II”

130 X 160 CM

ACRYLIC & SCREEN INK ON CANVAS

2008 CASPER KANG

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“DIASPORA III” 

130 X 160 CM

ACRYLIC & SCREEN INK ON CANVAS

2008 CASPER KANG

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“DIASPORA IV” 

130 X 160 CM

ACRYLIC & SCREEN INK ON CANVAS

2008 CASPER KANG

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“DIASPORA V”

130 X 160 CM

ACRYLIC & SCREEN INK ON CANVAS

2008 CASPER KANG

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2009 Casper Kang

“RABBIT EATER 2″

160 X 130 CM

ACRYLIC & SCREEN INK ON CANVAS

2008 CASPER KANG

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2009 Casper Kang

“FERMENTATION OF FURY” (김치의분노)

130 X 160 CM

ACRYLIC & SCREEN INK ON CANVAS

2008 CASPER KANG

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2009 Casper Kang

“DOUBLE HAPPINESS”

116 X 90 CM

ACRYLIC & SCREEN INK ON CANVAS

2008 CASPER KANG

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If you have one ice cream, and you’re almost finished eating it, it seems like you can’t enjoy it to the last bit. Especially if you’re not really full and you’re thinking about the ice cream while you eat it, and you realize that its starting to disappear, and soon you’ll have no ice cream at all. If you have two ice creams, then you don’t get this problem, so it’s always good to buy two of one thing if you can, under the right circumstances.

“PEACH BANG”

130 x 160 CM

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2009 Casper Kang

viva.H no.3

For their third collection, my friends at viva.H incorporated some of my artwork into a few of their pieces.

Official Site

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LIMITED EDITION BROOCHES FOR “PHANTASMAGORIA III” EXHIBITION

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brooches1TOP ROW: (A) CADMIUM RED / (B) N4 GREY / (C) TITANIUM BUFF PINK  

BOTTOM ROW: (D) TURQUOIS (PHTHALO) / (E) LIGHT MAGENTA / (F) AZURE BLUE 

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2009 Casper Kang


CASPER KANG SOLO EXHIBITION / 캐스퍼강 개인전

11.12.02 6PM – 11.12.24

SELF DYNASTY / 자아 왕조

GALLERY IMAZOO / 갤러리 이마주

서울특별시 강남구 테헤란로 20길 12 ANN TOWER B1 02-557-1950

MON(월) – SAT(토) 9:30 AM – 6:30 PM

DIRECTIONS / 오시는길

SUBWAY GREEN LINE(#2) > YEOKSAM STATION EXIT#3 > STRAIGHT AHEAD 120 M > LEFT AT POSCO P&S BUILDING > 3RD BUILDING ON RIGHT > “OGADA” ON 1ST FLOOR > GALLERY IMAZOO B1

BUSES > 146, 341, 360, 730, (EXPRESS) 1100, 1700, 2000, 7007, 8001 > YEOKSAM POSCO P&S BUS STOP

대중교통 > 지하철2호선역삼역3번출구 > 강남역방향120M직진 > 포스코P&S빌딩좌회전우측3번째빌딩(1충오가다) > 갤러리 이마주 지하1층

버스 > 146, 341, 360, 730, 직행 1100, 1700, 2000, 7007, 급행 8001

일반차량 > 강남역사거리 > 역삼역방향500M직진 > 우측포스코P&S빌딩을끼고우회전우측3번째빌딩 (진입로가일반통행이어서주차는포스코P&S빌딩주차장을이용하시면편리하겠습니다)

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“CREAM (CASH RULES EVERYTHING AROUND ME)”

FEBRUARY 18TH, 2010 – MARCH 11TH, 2010

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Invitations


Image courtesy of NAMGUNG QUESTION. THANKS!


Image courtesy of NAMGUNG QUESTION. THANKS AGAIN!


Image courtesy of NAMGUNG QUESTION who came out even though he was extremely busy.


Thank YOU EVERYONE

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“CREAM (CASH RULES EVERYTHING AROUND ME)”

FEBRUARY 18TH, 2010 – MARCH 11TH, 2010

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WHATUP SUPERCOLORSUPER. I hadn’t seen Sean in a very long time. Thanks for dropping by!


안녕 주호

다들피곤한데와줘서 너무 고마웠어! Don’t we look happy


Image courtesy of Jieun Kim. Thanks! 지은이 다원이 현정이 나 철이


Image courtesy of Jieun Kim. Thanks blurry Jieun!


Image courtesy of Jieun Kim. Hello “It” girls


FAM I love you all. My mother’s side of the family.

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“CREAM (CASH RULES EVERYTHING AROUND ME)”

FEBRUARY 18TH, 2010 – MARCH 11TH, 2010

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안녕 영빈 안녕 뱅쌍 방가웠어


Seo Han Young, one half of the super sensible and super talented fashion design duo VIVA H. Happy Birthday!


Yo Vincent


Peach and I 우리는 원래 어색해ㅋㅋ


안녕 기훈아!

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“CREAM (CASH RULES EVERYTHING AROUND ME)”

FEBRUARY 18TH, 2010 – MARCH 11TH, 2010

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Warren, thanks for coming, see you soon.


Thanks to 재욱형 and everyone from SPACE GROUP that came.


신빛나리(오랜만!) 랑 뱅쌍

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CREAM (CASH RULES EVERYTHING AROUND ME)

CASPER KANG SOLO EXHIBITION
캐스퍼 강 개인전

FEBRUARY 18TH, 2010 – MARCH 11TH, 2010
OPENING RECEPTION FEBRUARY 18TH, 2010 6:OO PM

GALLERY CHA

캐나다 교포로 현재 한국에서 활동하는 신진작가 캐스퍼 강은 이번 개인전 CREAM (Cash Rules Everything Around Me) 전에서 현대 자본주의 사회에서 필수 불가결한 돈에 관해 몇 가지 질문을 던집니다. 작가는 돈의 의미와 힘 그리고 그 필요성에 대해 의문점을 제기하며 그의 작품 속에서 이에 대한 해답을 찾기를 종용합니다. 그는 이 시대의 가장 강력한 권력인 자본을 숭상하는 시대적 분위기를 그만의 독특한 화법을 통해 작품에서 비틀어 표현하고 있습니다.

캐스퍼 강의 이번 전시는 대한민국 지폐에 등장하는 인물들인 이황, 세종대왕 그리고 신사임당의 초상을 차용하여 캔버스에 옮겨 그린 작품들로 이루어집니다. 돈의 무늬를 배경 삼아 작가의 세밀한 붓 터치와 정교한 실크스크린 기법을 혼용하여 현대적인 감각으로 재탄생한 선조들은 전시장에서 관람객과 마주합니다. 작가는 또한 자신의 사인이자 사회적으로 특별함의 의미로 통용되는 별표 연작을 제작했습니다. 전시장에 함께 전시된 돈을 의미하는 선조들의 초상과 특별함을 의미하는 별표 연작은 관람객에게 돈이 당신에게 특별한 존재냐고 묻습니다.

-하정경 큐레이터-

“CREAM” is a series of new paintings by Casper Kang which juxtapose the intricate images and patterns found on Korean money, rearranging the pictures known as cash, or bills, into new aesthetic compositions.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT:

CASH RULES EVERYTHING AROUND ME*

With cash, you can buy anything, or get other people to do things for you that they wouldn’t normally do if you didn’t give them cash. Most people spend most of their time trying to get more cash, since that’s the reason that they are working whatever jobs they have. A lot of people don’t like their jobs, and don’t really have much passion for what they do, but they don’t have much choice, because if they didn’t work, they wouldn’t have any cash, which would make it almost impossible for them to live within advanced capitalist society. Homeless people may not have jobs, but they’re always trying to get money, and rich people are the same, since they’re always trying to get more money, too. There’s never enough money for everyone, and that’s why banks have to make intangible money that only exists in the form of bank records. Some people may say that they’re not working for the money, that they love the work they do, and that they are fulfilling their dreams. But in a way, they’re really the same as everyone else, because they have to have money first in order to manifest their dreams in reality. Even if you won the lottery, you would have had to have money in the first place to buy the winning ticket.

Some people are willing to do more than others in order to get money. Some people will do anything for money. Society glorifies some professions and condemns others, but in a way they’re all similar. They’re all trying to get money. There are people selling their bodies, people selling their minds, and people marrying other people that they don’t love, all for money. People are selling out their pride and consciences in order to get money, in order to get either: (a) a product or service that can be paid for with money, or (b), more money. Society is at a point where the steps to making decent money are pretty much laid out, tried, tested, and true. Everyone knows how to do that dance, although many, if not most people, don’t really enjoy it, but can’t help it, because they have to make money. Some people are money making machines, since they’ll make more money than they really need, and keep trying harder and harder to make more money.

I once knew a girl who worked at what is referred to in Korea as a “room salon”. Essentially, she was a prostitute. During the day, she would work as a kindergarten teacher. I asked her why she had to work at the room salon at night if she already had a day job, and she told me that she was saving up for something. I asked her what she was saving for, and she told me that she was saving up her money to get a nose job. Some people can tell when people have had a rhinoplasty. They’ll say, “Oh, that person’s nose looks so fake.” Maybe that’s a certain “look” you could call the “look of money”. It’s the same as having expensive cars or clothing or huge mansions. Although a person’s reason for having all those things might not be to appear to have a lot of money, it will still have the same effect when other people see them. People might say, “She looks like she has a lot of money,” or “He looks like money.” All those material things automatically translate into money, and people can see money without the actual money being visible.

“If you look like a rag, but you’ve got fifteen dollars in your pocket, you can still impress people that you’ve got money. All you have to do is go down to the liquor store and buy a bottle of champagne. You can impress a whole roomful of people and with luck maybe you’ll never see them again, so they’ll always think you’ve got money. I never can have money and pretend I’m poor. I can only be poor and pretend I’m rich.”**

*Method Man, Wu-Tang Clan, 1993
**Andy Warhol, “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)”

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“PHANTASMAGORIA III”

JANUARY 9TH, 2009 – JANUARY 23RD, 2009

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“PHANTASMAGORIA III”

JANUARY 9TH, 2009 – JANUARY 23RD, 2009

@DAILY PROJECTS

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JANUARY 9TH, 2009 – JANUARY 23RD, 2009

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