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For more than a decade, Madee, or Choke as he is more familiarly known, has been the favoured driver of many artists when they need their works transported from one destination to another. “Desire, the source, what makes them create” theme is best described by the paintings of Madee Boonchuen, a familiar face to many Thai artists, and a reliable transporter of artworks.
#Shota Tragic Day Gallery series
Sakpong, an inmate, has also created a series of animal sculptures from sawdust, confining them in cages, and chains and by stairs to represent his struggle for freedom. Sakpong's sawdust sculptures/Nationphoto:Rachanon Intharaksa The components of each vehicle – both exteriors and interiors – like seats, consoles, air-conditioners – are replicated in fine detail. Thiti Kaowprathana's caravan of paper vehicles./Nationphoto:Rachanon IntharaksaĪdjacent is Thailand’s Thiti Kaowprathana’s caravan of public transport vehicles from public buses, trucks and tour buses to taxis and sedans, each of them fashioned out of a single sheet of white cardboard.
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Twisted metal wire that is normally used to tie bread bags is the main material used by Japanese creator Shota Katsube who skillfully twists them into an army of miniature warriors that look as if they have walked off the page of a comic book. Shota Katsube uses twisted metal wire to create miniature warriors./Nationphoto:Rachanon Intharaksa The Art Brut movement also celebrates the creators’ ability to use material freely available among existing resources and that forms the second theme of the exhibition, “Raw materials and creation in everyday life”. For her, it a kind of exhilaration,” says the Japanese curator Seina Kimoto. She enjoys the sound of her marker pen moving quickly and continuously up and down when drawing as well as the sound when the pen comes off the paper and hits the drawing board. Each work takes about two to three minutes to complete. “The lines are drawn without hesitation and are repeated with a certain regularity. “Some works depict painful and tragic memories and confusion while several pieces reflect the yearning for freedom through simple and abstract forms.”Īn inmate named Preecha offers a series of seven semi-abstract paintings illustrating an isolated and deserted land in gloomy darkness with freeform and strong brushstrokes while fellow inmate Theerawat uses brush rotations to give eerie dimensions to his seven paintings highlighting the candle image as a metaphor of his search of freedom.Īkane Kimura's drawings/Nationphoto: Khetsirin PholdhampalitĪkane Kimura from Japan uses oil marker pens in blue, red and black to create continuous repetition of strokes. “I’m thankful that the prison allows the inmates to freely express their thoughts no matter how negative these might be,” says Suebsang. Theerawat's works/Nationphoto: Khetsirin Pholdhampalit Six inmates of Thonburi Remand Prison are the Thai representatives and their paintings and drawings express loneliness and a hunger for freedom through the use of dull shades and metaphoric images like candles, skulls, chains, stairs, and high walls separating their world from that outside. The first theme “Repetition, dense and homogenous” highlights the expression of rawness through repetitive strokes of paintbrush and pen. Preecha's paintings/Nationphoto: Khetsirin PholdhampalitĬontinuing until November 3, the exhibition, a collaboration between Japanese and Thai institutes, is regarded as the largest-scale movement of Art Brut in Southeast Asia and is divided into five main themes. Sometimes, we have to unleash our hidden human side in order to create works that are executed with authentic emotion and spiritual value,” says Suebsang Sangwachirapiban, the Thai curator of the exhibition. “Their works have taught me that an abundant knowledge of art theory doesn’t mean that we can create a good work of art. “Art brut”, a French term for raw art, was coined by French artist Jean Dubuffet in 1945 to identify works created by mentally and physically disabled individuals, eccentrics and social misfits in a naive, raw, free, unexplainable and ruleless form. Photo courtesy of Bangkok Art and Culture Centre The paintings, sculptures, photographs, mixed media and graffiti by 51 Thai and Japanese people with no formal art training are described as raw, straightforward, sincere and authentic in contrast to tradition of fine art.
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Titled “Art Brut: Figure of Unknown Beauty”, the exhibition showcases a variety of artworks by prison inmates, homeless persons, the physically impaired and the autistic.