“Life is beautiful”

Number 1 gallery with a group of 8 artists, Jirapat Tatsanasomboon,Boonhlue Yangsauy,Manut Lao-on,Anupong Chantorn,Anchalee Arayapongpanit,Widsanupong Noonan,Kittisak Thapkoa and Pat Yingcharoen, intentionally present the beautiful perspective under the name of Life is beautiful exhibition. It can be comparative to a big movie production that significantly expresses the beauty and different thoughts along with a purpose of an inspiration and spreading a positive vibe to a society and audiences in the midst of desperate economic situation including a present politics.

Jirapat Tatsanasomboon would like to represent the story of beauty, love, hope and sacrifices of survival in order to live a life with restricted freedom under a war situation and plus they have to hide and conceal enduringly for a day to be free. The massage of this work relates to a story of a positive inspiration as it is a gift for the tolerance of survival. (I need you to be strong, happy and live your life for me).

Boonhlue Yangsauy from memories of happiness and beauty when looking back to my childhood where I was raised in Thonburi, Bangkok and from a family whose parents had come to seek an opportunity after cold war where a development of everything remains at the center of the country. I had perceived changes of different Thai circumstances since I was young. Even though the capital of Thailand is Bangkok city but it used to be such environments where there were canals in lemon, orange and coconut gardens etc. These all are the nature of happiness beside canals.

When time passed by, the city became larger and the importance of natural canals had decreased which replaced by roads, communities and condominiums. People started to have a modern lifestyle as a middle class and what used to be in the past has slowly faded away. When I was younger I used to see overlapping images of one place in two different ages.

Manut Lao-on, noticing our experiences and others’ is pretty much like an individual environment due to the fact that things move around and continually change under the natural mechanism. There is certain thing that affects human’s ability to realize the truth, understand life, learn, adjust and improve until their last breaths on this earth.

The work process of Manut is comparative to a particular procedure of consideration and learning even though it isn’t only a part of creativity but contemplation on unsteady things around us is also one of the major importances of one man’s life.

The painting is literally one type of language which indicates certain connective feelings in an artistic painting way and hidden indications impel us to be wondering and questioning over this piece of art.  The intention of artist is to express indirect definition to audiences to be able to question themselves and analyze it into various types of matters that connects with audiences’ experience and others’. The ability of painting’ s task is somewhat of a vibration that enables to stimulate audiences’ thoughts and imaginations where it leads to a certain state of mind, understanding, reviewing their live and experiences. Nevertheless it’s worth the substance, realizing of being alive and continuously improving.

Anupong Chantorn  and his work series, he would like to be showing certain form that reflects an ugly virtuous type of some people through combined symbols between human and animals which have become a hungry ghost hidden in Buddhist religion with a satisfaction of one self’s possession and power, aiming to destroy morality and taking advantages to himself and his vicious company by using a yellow cloth to conceal their greed and eventually ruin other’s faith. Because of an ability of having advantages on living life with full of wealth, that is why a righteous way has been inclined from endurance to avarice.

Anchalee Arayapongpanit “Meow Division” is the work that created with an intention of Anchalee to make audiences relieved and feeling better from unavoidable stresses and problems after spending time with her work. Initially the artist herself loves to draw world war ll soldiers’ outfits where it mostly shows up a picture of solider holding a cat, playing and feeding them. That’s quite obvious that we have had cat lovers since a long time ago, moreover it had found some information relating to a cat in world war or it’s called “Meow Division” which was established in order to execute a real task in a battlefield such as a fighting with a troop of rats that had stolen foods of soldiers in a battleground as well as to protect people from the plague rat. However, the most important thing that cats can carry out the mission is making lives of soldiers in a battlefield relieved after spending time with them. Touching, and nourishing them can bring a small little thing of happiness during an intense situation.

Widsanupong Noonan distress is like a season, arising, existing and falling. It repetitively circulates the same loop. Hope indicates a connecting fraction of the season and enlightens us to realize that “This shall pass…” Artist presents an awareness of the truth of natural cycle and time, is the engine of life.

Kittisak Thapkoa in a current society, difficulties that humans have to be facing were occurred from several issues such as diseases, a relationship of human and human, and conflicts from many conditions etc. Those cause many serious problems to a society and certain type of human in the present where it ‘s generally visible. These impacted artist’s emotions as well as an inspiration on creating this art series for a better pair of eyes a man can see toward a true life and hardship that seizing people in a present society. In fact, the principles of Buddhist doctrines have taught us to do good things, understand life, follow the middle path to enlightenment, and appreciate on human’s virtue both one self’s and others. Therefore, the artist would like to use arts to motivate people’s perspectives and perceptions to be able to comprehend real problems in our society which happiness happened from human’s goodness including unavoidable suffering and deal with it consciously

Pat Yingcharoen, “The beauty of life” or a fraction of time that flashes across human to realize that “What a beautiful life” is all abstract. We may have come to have such feelings but soon after a pleasurable moment will be gone and left us only certain memories that will slowly fade away. Nevertheless, a miracle of art is to have those talented artists who are able to bring down such abstracts that float in the air to create, produce and make it to become particular type of media in order to be easy for humans to understand the beauty of different types of life. At some point, masterpieces of art of a professor in the past are giving an opportunity as a witness of comprehension on the most beautiful perspective of one man’s life could be. However Life is Beautiful exhibition, Pat wishes to dedicate two artworks to artists’ favorite artists in the past that we respect as our artist teachers including other four artists.

Number 1 gallery and an artist group would like to invite everyone to be a part of “Life is Beautiful” exhibition where we could explore, exchange happiness and sharing smiles to each other. This exhibition will be held in April at Number 1 gallery, Silom 21, Silom Road, Bangkok         

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