Kang Myeong-gu opens a photo exhibition of 532 missed heroes at Garak Market. At Topo House

The front of the trucks, the main drivers of transportation, that were missed at the largest agricultural and marine product wholesale site were proudly reproduced as works.

Artist Myung-Goo Kang's 5-meter photo, which took only the front of a truck holding his breath behind the wholesale site at dawn at Garak Market, for four years, is a masterpiece of elaborate combination of 532 truck frontal photos.

Another masterpiece being installed for the exhibition on the 14th at Topo House in Insa-dong is also a combination of scenes where wholesale products from across the country are neatly placed on pallets after getting off 532 trucks.

At the moment when no one pays attention while cooling the hot engine that has run hundreds of kilometers overnight in the back of the tense auction site, the artist quickly captures the heat on the screen.

The same but different expression of the truck is a reproduction of a technique that achieved a majestic beauty with a one---piece documentary with the faces of each foreigner from the West station who came across thousands of kilometers of deserts and mountain ranges.

In the other works, on the same palette, the back scenes of the worker who struggled to prepare for the loading car by catching various boxes of food and food immediately before moving after the auction in the same way were different but achieved the same combination of poses.

The photo shows the essence of a city that has erased all the signboards with the best planning skills attached to the walls of a well-kept building on the 4th street, the fiercest commercial district in the city.

As an early work, the artist captured the trash and discarded items flying just before the first train at dawn in Seoul Station Square, which symbolizes fierce competition and short-lived daily life, as if tracking down trash and discarded items.

The artist had previously submitted an exhibition under the theme of “abandonment” of the traces of 50 years of life in an alley right before the redevelopment of Wangsimni.

The artist, who continues to work in photography while competing with the city's daily items, often seen but easily forgotten, is an authentic civil engineer who has protected highway construction sites across the country for 40 years.

After graduating from the Civil Engineering Department in Yantai, he also carried out civil works in Bangladesh until he retired from Daelim Industrial.

His first solo exhibition, 'Double Comma', will be held at Topo House in Insa-dong until the 21st.