Cordially invites you to the opening ceremony of Asia Mirror: Duo Art Exhibition Chinese & Thai Artists
On 22th January 2016, 6.00 pm.
Artist: Rearngsak Boonyavanish (Thai artist) and
Zhang Kexin (Chinese artist)
Duration: 22 January - 20 Febuary 2016
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 -19.00
Cloesd: Sunday (by appointment only) and Public Holiday
It is known that Thailand and The People's Republic of China have had a long relationship, through diplomatic relations, economy, culture, tradition and art. We can observe the influence of Chinese art in Thai art history especially in painting and sculpture. This year will mark the 41th anniversary of the establishment of China-Thailand diplomatic relations.
For this occasion Mr. Jarut Wongkumjantra, director of HOF ART, has invited Thai artist Mr. Rearngsak Boonyavanishkul and Chinese artist Mr.Zhang Kexin, to exhibit their artworks at HOF ART. They are artists who are not only renowned in their birth countries but also in Asia. Rearngsak and Zhang Kexin have had ample opportunities to work outside of their home countries. They've gotten to experience different cultures and traditions which affect their artworks substantially.
Chinese artist ZHANG Kexin's nomadic lifestyle has molded his spirit and his will, making it possible for him to face this ever changing and more complicated world without sacrificing his individual artistic style – all the while maintaining his focus and demeanor thus allowing him to perfect his distinct manner of creation. It is precisely his nomadic experience that gives ZHANG Kexin the ability to audaciously utilize colors and images in his esthetic and technique – an ability to survey, analyze and display the chaos and instability inside the movements of the new Asia – from a “Pan Asian” point of view. He is able then to firmly seize the cultural tokens of Asia, which are simultaneously turbulent, anxious, uneasy and full of desire. Although developing each work from different visual resources in microcosm. Stated differently, he takes different traditional elements, then filters, compresses, and molds them into an amalgam, creating his own new visual language. This unique visual language not only vividly recreates a general sense of worth – the subrogation of old and new concepts, the friction between tradition and modernity, the grapple between what’s human and brutal, but it also deeply resolves the mixed modernity in the new Asia – hybridization, chaos, totalitarianism, non-determinacy, modernization, tradition, religion, old and new fashion – the social fabric of our time. In recent years, Zhang Kexin has expanded his visual vocabulary to video and performance art as well.
Rearngsak Boonyavanishkul is a well established Thai artist who has been in the spotlight in Singapore and Indonesia as well. In the past, Rearngsak’s artworks depict refined and delicate paintings of Thai folk dancers. For this exhibition, possibly as a result of staying in Singapore for quite a long time, Rearngsak has evolved his work in a more expressionist manner, whilst retaining characteristic traces of his earlier work. His artworks express his essence and freedom. His technique using golden color in painting is wonderfully sublime. It can be said that Rearngsak’s present artworks deliver his soul from brush into canvas, as curator Mr. Jarut has observed.
In this duo art exhibition, two cultures come together in strength and as an evolution from the past - their artworks reflecting contemporary globalised values and attitudes.
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