Sanghoon KANG

Website : kasahcanada.creatorlink.net
Instagram : @kasahcanada
Bio
I am a Korean artist based in Canada since 2021. A former university professor in art and architecture in Korea and a former director of an art gallery in Paris, France, I started my career as an artist since 2020 in France.
Growing up in an artistic family, I enjoyed playing and listening to music that have had a great influence on my life. So, studying music would be my life path but I worked as architect and university professor after finishing my undergraduate study in mechanical engineering and my graduate study in architecture.
While working as university professor, I have always had a great passion for music and painting, so finding inspiration for my designs in painting was naturally based on music and architecture. In 2019, I have created an art gallery in Paris, France in order to create a meeting place for art lovers and also to work closely with artists from all over the world.
The artwork that I have created spans more than twenty years, and the experiences acquired as artist as well as director of an art gallery in France have been incorporated into best practices of my work to be shown.
Art Statement
My art practice is inspired by Goethe’s words, “…architecture is frozen music” and my aim is to demonstrate my belief that architecture must evolve into something that, with its form, satisfies a spiritual thinking and into an artistic as well as cultural container – embracing human life.
Music notes move and I want to capture their sounds and movements onto canvas, frozen in a free form. They are created by the communication between all kinds of musical instruments, and they are related to each other within the fundamental principle of music from which would be formed various ‘imageries of music’.
Using geometry, I try to draw them up as if I complete architectural plans, provided that the establishment of architectural concepts could share common ideas with the composition of music, and at the same time, wishing that those who love music and art have all sorts of beautiful imagination.