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Thaiwijit Puengkasemsomboon
GALLERY SIDE 2 is pleases to present Thaiwijit Puengkasemsomboon’s first solo exhibition in Tokyo.
His solo exhibition “Untamed Melody” is currently shown at MOCA Bangkok as Part 2, curated by Rirkrit Tiravanija, Part 1 has opened in October at Four Seasons Hotel Art Space MOCA Bangkok. Part 1 portrays people from various backgrounds, thoughts, habits, and mindsets, each having roles in shaping our world. These portraits reflect the abilities of the human mind, which has the potential to both create and destroy. Part 2 expands this idea and incorporates sculptures and installation. The work examines excess in our contemporary lives, turning the waste into a vessel to think of our environment and behaviors.
Thaiwijit Puengkasemsomboon was born in 1959 in Patani Province. He arrived in Bangkok to attend Silpakorn University and soon after he graduated in 1984, his abstract paintings were well received earning a solo exhibition at Bangkok’s National Gallery. Puengkasemsomboon’s layers of colors, lines and forms that were inspired by Rothko, Pollock and de Kooning were freshly alive. However, he did not stop there. For Puengkasemsomboon, art was something without borders. Much closer to Tao or Zen that connects to everyday experience. Not settling into one style or medium, Puengkasemsomboon has started to integrate found objects in his works, finding beauty in everyday objects. He would talk to junk truckers to spare him some steel remains, picks up branches and driftwood, plastics and glasses. With them, he improvises. The combinations of colors, shapes, and textures of found materials initiate Thaiwijit’s art work. He creates not only paintings but sculptures and functional objects such as vases, stools, lamps. When visiting Thaiwijit’s studio and adjoining home, the whole environment is his art work. We are reminded traditionally the art and life are not separated in eastern life. All the dualistic lines, such as private and public, life and death, abstract and representational, become meaningless in Puengkasemsomboon’s work. All leads to nothingness or becomes one, with nature, self, others, everything around us.
The exhibition at GALLERY SIDE 2 will consist of drawings and sculptures. We hope that Thaiwijit’s faces and masks of our untamed melody.
His solo exhibition “Untamed Melody” is currently shown at MOCA Bangkok as Part 2, curated by Rirkrit Tiravanija, Part 1 has opened in October at Four Seasons Hotel Art Space MOCA Bangkok. Part 1 portrays people from various backgrounds, thoughts, habits, and mindsets, each having roles in shaping our world. These portraits reflect the abilities of the human mind, which has the potential to both create and destroy. Part 2 expands this idea and incorporates sculptures and installation. The work examines excess in our contemporary lives, turning the waste into a vessel to think of our environment and behaviors.
Thaiwijit Puengkasemsomboon was born in 1959 in Patani Province. He arrived in Bangkok to attend Silpakorn University and soon after he graduated in 1984, his abstract paintings were well received earning a solo exhibition at Bangkok’s National Gallery. Puengkasemsomboon’s layers of colors, lines and forms that were inspired by Rothko, Pollock and de Kooning were freshly alive. However, he did not stop there. For Puengkasemsomboon, art was something without borders. Much closer to Tao or Zen that connects to everyday experience. Not settling into one style or medium, Puengkasemsomboon has started to integrate found objects in his works, finding beauty in everyday objects. He would talk to junk truckers to spare him some steel remains, picks up branches and driftwood, plastics and glasses. With them, he improvises. The combinations of colors, shapes, and textures of found materials initiate Thaiwijit’s art work. He creates not only paintings but sculptures and functional objects such as vases, stools, lamps. When visiting Thaiwijit’s studio and adjoining home, the whole environment is his art work. We are reminded traditionally the art and life are not separated in eastern life. All the dualistic lines, such as private and public, life and death, abstract and representational, become meaningless in Puengkasemsomboon’s work. All leads to nothingness or becomes one, with nature, self, others, everything around us.
The exhibition at GALLERY SIDE 2 will consist of drawings and sculptures. We hope that Thaiwijit’s faces and masks of our untamed melody.
Schedule | Jan 17 (Fri) 2025-Feb 21 (Fri) 2025 Opening Hours Information
Opening Reception Jan 17 (Fri) 2025 17:30 - 19:30 | ||||
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | https://www.galleryside2.net/en/exhibitions/thaiwijit-puengkasemsomboone/ | ||||
| Venue | Gallery Side 2 https://www.galleryside2.net/en/ | ||||
| Location | 1F, 7-3-25 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0032 | ||||
| Access | 6 minute walk from exit 3 at Nogizaka Station on the Chiyoda line, 7 minute walk from exit 8 at Roppongi Station on the Hibiya or Toei Oedo line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-6447-1422 | ||||
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