Kang Seok Ho (Tina Kim Gallery) died at the age of just 50 in 2021, leaving an imposing legacy of painted works that reflect his balance of figuration, abstraction and time-based practice. Kang actively distanced himself from his subjects, using repetitive brushstrokes and close cropping on details to refute narrative: the importance of the work was in its making, not in its story. Kang’s approach also alludes to Asian landscape painting in their attempt to analyse the structure of what is seen, and how.
August 14, 2024
