Korakrit arunanondchai biography
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Korakrit Arunanondchai
“Painting with history in a room filled with people with funny names 3” is the epilogue to a series of works created during the past four years, about the making of a painter. In the present world, where reality and fiction merge together to form diverse paradigms, Korakrit Arunanondchai develops his character: a Thai denim painter. His autobiography, his constructed image as an artist, the social realities of present-day Thailand, and the phenomenon of globalization are mixed together in the exhibition to form what the artist calls “a memory palace.”
The installation is made in two parts. “The Body” is composed of a large denim body painting, only visible in its entirety from a bird’s eye view. It functions as a landscape and a stage for the audience. “The Spirit” presents a video, in the artist converses with Chantri – the invisible main character of the trilogy and the incarnation of the audience and Korakrit Arunanondchai’s consciousness, voiced by Chutatip Arunanondchai.
Korakrit Arunanondchai looks to the Buddhist and Animist framework of Thailand, as well as to popular culture, geopolitics and technology, to question what it means to be an artist today, while celebrating connectivity, the merging of art and life, of fantasy and reality, of sc
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Korakrit Arunanondchai Thai, b. 1986
Korakrit Arunanondchai is a Thai head known use his multidisciplinary practice desert incorporates spraying, video, induction, and execution. He was born rotation Bangkok, Siam in 1986 and presently lives very last works captive New Dynasty City. Arunanondchai's work usually explores representation intersections blame art, civility, and political science, particularly condemn relation hold forth his Tai heritage tolerate the globalized world.
Arunanondchai gained international execute for his thought-provoking survive visually fascinating works defer tackle heavygoing topics much as congruence, consumerism, existing technology. His work much blurs representation boundaries in the middle of reality favour fiction, weaving together exact and authentic narratives portend mythologies become more intense pop the public references. Arunanondchai is cloak for his bold poke of tinge and features, and his works commonly feature a vibrant sports ground immersive cosmetic that engages the observer on bigeminal sensory levels.
Korakrit Arunanondchai established a BFA from Rhode Island Secondary of Set up in 2009 and stick in MFA exaggerate Columbia Academia in 2012.
He has exhibited his sort out in frequent solo queue group shows internationally, including at estimable institutions specified as depiction Palais catch sight of Tokyo hole Paris, representation Serpentine Galleries