Sculpture & Media Art
Ice Cream Sculpture
This is not an ice cream. Minseok Kang's Ice Cream Sculpture series borrows the familiar, sweet form of ice cream to embody the desires, fantasies, and cultural icons of contemporary life. The Return of the King, UFO, Olympic Flame, Count Dracula, Friday Ice Cream, Spider Man, Slimer, LOVE ME — each work creates an entirely new meaning at the intersection of pop culture icons and the vehicle of ice cream. These small sculptures, with 13×13cm bases made of acrylic paint, resin, and stainless steel, reveal Minseok Kang's world where humor and sharp vision coexist. Ice cream is a symbol of desire — consumed, melted, and gone. Within it, Minseok Kang inscribes a cross-section of contemporary society.
Ice Cream
The Ice Cream Media Art series is a work in which Minseok Kang's pop art imagination expands into the moving image medium. 72 single-channel videos, each carrying a different character and narrative, play on loop — compressing icons of contemporary culture into a single ice cream form. Like the nature of ice cream itself — consumed and gone — each video expresses the cycle of desire and memory between the fleeting moment and repetition.
Flower
The Flower Media Art series captures representative Korean flowers through the moving image medium. Cherry blossom, cotton, magnolia, moth orchid, mugunghwa, and poppy — the vitality and beauty of six flowers unfold in single-channel video. Recording the delicate movements and colors of nature, the artist explores the meaning of existence between the ephemeral moment of beauty and the passage of time.
Trace
The Trace series captures on video the moment when acrylic paint flows and spreads. Within the movement of paint, where chance and inevitability intersect, the artist observes the very essence of the creative act. Uncontrollable flow and the patterns that emerge within it — this is also the inner landscape of every moment Minseok Kang stands before the canvas.