1991 / South Korea
Jonggil Kang carefully observes often-overlooked elements of his surroundings, capturing them in his paintings as landscapes detached from a specific place or time. Though this approach, he translates his synesthetic experiences into a visual language.
The artist perceives his environment by layering senses from his eyes, ears, and skin. In his recent works, he explores this sensory interplay through 'sigimsae', a unique notation system in traditional Korean music.
Sigimsae represents characteristics of vocal sounds and variations in note duration using symbolic markings. By physically sensing the images and sounds of a landscape and expressing their totality as symbols, Kang experiments with painting as a medium to explore the cyclical relationship between image and sound. Through this process, he is developing his unique method of composing scenes, expanding the relationship between painting and auditory perception.
Jonggil Kang paints the synaesthetic situations he experiences by carefully observing the objects around him that he might pass by without paying attention to them, and expressing them as landscapes without a specific place and time.
The artist senses his surroundings through his eyes, ears, and skin, encompassing them with each other, and in his recent works, he expresses this orientation through "shigimse," a unique notation of traditional Korean music.
Sigmoid is a way of symbolizing forms such as the characteristics of spoken sounds or the duration of a note. By sensing the images and sounds of the landscape with his body and expressing the totality of them as symbols, Jonggil Kang is experimenting with painting as a way to explore how painting and sound circulate with each other and to organize the composition of the scene in his own way.