Showing posts with label Toot Yung Gallery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Toot Yung Gallery. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

No Superego" Bangkok's first solo show by Tada Hengsakpul


The Toot Yung Gallery is pleased to present "No Superego" Bangkok's first solo show by Tada Hengsakpul

19 January - 4 March 2011

Opening reception January 19th at 7 pm

Tada Hengsapkul, born in 1987 in Nakhon Ratchasima, has had a camera in his hands since the age of fifteen.

This very passionate young Thai photographer uses film cameras and video to capture hidden identities of his homeland, Thailand.

The freshness and realism of his photos shift conventional standards of image making in Thailand as well as old power structures and

pre-defined gender roles. The crudeness of the nudes, the sexually explicit pose of his models, and the irony of certain scenes emphasize

the gap between his works and photos which are praised by the local critique and censorship board.

This exhibition is Hengsapkul's first solo show in Bangkok; it presents a broad selection of quality works.

From landscapes to nude, portraits and abstract color fields Hengspkul's photos all have a strong emotional

and elegiac core which will certainly not leave the viewer indifferent.

For further information about the Gallery or the artist please contact:

Myrtille Tibayrenc

TOOT YUNG GALLERY
19 Prachathipatai Rd.
10200 Phra Nakon
Bangkok Thailand
Tel: 66(0)849145499
mail: tibayrenc@yahoo.fr

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Two artists with a very different background at TOOT YUNG GALLERY


SATURDAY 15 JANUARY 2011 STARTING 7PM
TOOT YUNG GALLERY & CHEZ LODIN

Two artists with a very different background, vision and sensibility will propose to share with you their inspiration from Thailand

TANG MO
a performance by French artist SKALL

Since the 80ies French artist Skall has elaborated a unique work between, sculpture, installation and performance. This black sheep of the French contemporary art scene evolves in a world of Baroque hybrid figures and objects. The works remind of certain religious ornaments, in which relics, sculptures and amulets are presented on stands, in glass boxes, or cushions with an infinate string of decorative elements meant to highlight the presented object and lift it to a sacred stage. As his sculptures and installations, Skall's performances lift him to a different stand. By accumulating chosen objects, for their beauty or symbolism his body slowly evolves in a non human creature. Every performance is a splendorous metamorphosis; An explosion of colors and forms giving birth to an ephemeral God, Faune or mystical animal.

more about the artist:
http://www.galerie-mam.com/index/index.php?id=21&subid=2&nr=89
http://www.artween.com/Galleries/Mario-Mauroner-Contemporary-Art-Vienna/SKALL-A-Light-Beyond-Darkness
http://vimeo.com/10106874




SOCIETY SECRETS
An insitu work by Hungarian artist SI-LA-GI

SI-LA-GI was born in Tokaj, Hungary in 1949 and emigrated via Italy to Sweden in 1966.
There he studied painting at the Academy of Fine Art and later continued his studies at the University of Stockholm (Science of visual arts). In the meantime he also worked with experimental film and photography in the 1960s and from 1973 also with videos. He was the pioneer in the mid-1970s who began making installations using video. At the end of the 1970s he was co-founder of the Video Nu Studio in Stockholm which gave artists the opportunity to create experimental arts. In his art he uses diverse media, including photography, video, sculpture and installation. His works are concept and philosophy-based investigations of impermanence, life and death, and individual opportunities. Between 1980-1986 he taught art video and painting in Stockholm. He has travelled widely throughout the United States of America, Africa and Asia, where he developed his interest in Buddhism. His martial art studies and long Buddhist retreats have had a great influence on his concept-based art.

more about the artist:
http://www.si-la-gi.com/home/

For further information please contact:

Myrtille Tibayrenc
TOOT YUNG GALLERY
19 Prachathipatai Rd.
10200 Phra Nakon
Bangkok Thailand
Tel: 66(0)849145499
mail: tibayrenc@yahoo.fr

Friday, September 24, 2010

“What lies within us” by Haritorn Akarapat


“What lies within us”

A solo exhibition of
Haritorn Akarapat

29 Sept - 10 Nov 2010

Opening reception 29 Sept 2010 6pm onwards

Exotissimo in partnership with the Toot Yung Gallery are pleased to present What lies within us, a solo exhibition by the renowned Thai artist Haritorn Akarapat. With this new exhibition, Haritorn Akarapat proposes again a surprising “come back” to the Bangkok art scene; returning with a new strength, a new medium: Painting!

Haritorn Akarapat is an established sculptor in Thailand. His work is easily recognizable as he developed a strong identity during his over 20 years career, exploring new ways to approach the bronze and patina techniques. This sudden change of medium has been in the artist’s mind for several years. He was just waiting for it to be ripe as he says with a wide smile.
Akarapat’s long and challenging career is marked by intense periods of activity, usually culminating in a heroic masterpiece or group of master works, followed by startling renewal and rethinking of his subject.












This exhibition proposes to make a parallele between his previous sculpture works and his new paintings. It is a transit showcase of his work in progress. “What lies within us” is an occasion to see how the artist nourishes himself from his previous works to finally come to explore an unknown matter.
His paintings are a passionate explosion. Full of humour, freedom and odd colours...they are refreshing and ironic.The artist focuses on the power and simplicity of subject and the vibrancy of the colors . It is a subtil mirror like response to his latest solo show at Tang Contemporary Art Lapse of Memory. Again exploring the resonances between the pieces of a very numerous serie. As to grab the diversity of life and beings, Akarapat accumulates these distorted faces, skulls and animals with a furious appetite. They are painted intuitively, with quick and spontaneous flashes of bright, transparent colour. He treats the paintings as virtual figurations of theological speculation and vehicles for spiritual meditation. The figurative elements act as a mirror for the observer, the non-figurative elements invite contemplation.

References to buddhist theories, which in the earlier works had been more ambiguous, are more directly emphasised. These works have allowed Akarapat to revisit and excavate the past, pushing his own painterly vocabulary to create works that are fresh and liberated.

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