Title of art	88개의 소원들/88 Wishes			Sector	Painting (회화)
Art specifications	58.5×58.5cm(×88개)			Material technique	Coloring and coating on wood
Collection year	2013			Production year	2010-2013
Gallery	Seoul Museum of Art			Artist	Kang, Ik-Joong
Description of art	“88 Wishes” (2010-2013), comprising eighty-eight panels with images of the traditional Korean moon jar (dalhangari), captures Kang’s aspiration to connect you and me; the North and the South; and the entire world. Kang used the rotund image of the porcelain moon jar as a symbol of a unified whole formed by the merge of two hemispheres. This approach is also applied to Kang’s paintings of the Korean writing system Hangeul, another major motif for him. Hangeul combines vowels and consonants to make up a single letter, which signifies connection between two different worlds?Kang’s theme of focus. Moon jars are made not as a whole but by combining two hemispheres?the bottom and the top?which are unified through firing, a process of ordeal. Kang emphasizes that the moon jar contains emotions of connectivity, of embrace, and of hollowness, along with cleanness and humility, which he believes are part of the Korean spirit and identity.
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