Jirapat Tatsanasomboon solo exhibition
30 Nov 2017 – 31 Jan 2018
Opening Thu 30 Nov from 6.30 pm
Artist will be present.
For Jirapat Tatsanasomboon, one of the '100 Painters For Tomorrow' from the 2014 book of renowned London-based art publishing house Thames & Hudson, liberty has always been a guideline in art.
Jirapat has been confronting for the last 20 years modern western icons with the most representative and traditional figures of Thai culture, the characters of the Ramakien. He kept this iconography despite the polemics in Thailand. He was warning about the dangers of globalized popular culture and he was claiming
the right for Thais to protect their own culture in the globalized village.
His quest for liberty has nowadays moved from a collective to a more individual perspective, thus being more universal, addressing more directly the problems of social inequalities and democracy, freedom of expression and morality in politics.
In his new solo show at YenakArt Villa, Bangkok, he will exhibit 22 paintings, never shown before, in his very recognizable iconographic style, made of bright colors and references to pop-art, transposing Thai traditional figures into Western culture, and vice versa.
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