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If you visit Bang Sangho's Instagram, you’ll see how his last obsession is none other than The Chemical Brothers, the series created by Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland that follows a mad scientist and his grandson in a bunch of colorful and surreal adventures throughout the universe. This isn't an obsession like any other, it's also a job at Adult Swim, the channel in which The Chemical Brothers is originally broadcast. Be as it may, it’s completely impossible to ignore the powerful link between Sangho's work and the series.

This South Korean artist particularly likes extraterrestrial worlds inhabited by a true horror vacui of flora and fauna in bright, contrasting colors. He also loves those beings that refuse anthropomorphology and stretch over space as strange organisms that could belong to Alien or a children's coloring book. In other words, if you take Jesse Jacobs's  fondness for cryptic alien worlds and add it to the aesthetic of Shintaro Kago's ero-guro manga, then you'll get the worlds inside Sangho's head.

Worlds that have already seduced a bunch of brands that see them as a way to stir up their collections. Just like Fender and adidas, for instance. Or the aforementioned Adult Swim channel. But Sangho's influence goes beyond fashion and television, and is also leaking into another imaginary that suits him well: music. Recently, he created a piece inspired by the songs of Billionaire Boys Club and made a cover art for the k-pop group NCT 127.

For Bang though, this is just the beginning. And that's quite impressive considering he graduated in 2016 in South Korea and gained, in only thee years, the approval of relevant brands and a good congregation of Instagram fans who are in awe with his works. Not only we have to hope Sangho will continue giving us his extraterrestrial world, but also pray that NASA will discover an outer space that looks similar to what this artist imagines. And make interplanetary trips cheap.