THERDKIAT WANGWATCHARAKUL (1971), THAILANDESE PAINTER – Back to the streets.

Capturing Bangkok life, but imbued with a sense of loneliness.

Here you can find towering skyscrapers lie shoulder to shoulder with village homes that are over two centuries old. Thailand’s capital, Bangkok, https://www.visitacity.com/en/bangkok?campaignid=329853005&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIu92I2fH92QIV7bftCh1O3g5aEAAYASAAEgLRPvD_BwE is a busy urban grid with incredible contrasts. Not only, because you too waiting for colorful markets (such as the Chatuchak Market), where you can buy anything from food to antiques. Over the course a 6-hour day trip, you’ll cruise (past vendors selling freshly picked produceand interesting souvenirs). You can go beyond Bangkok city limits, and gain a understanding of life, as you explore the floating markets of Damnoen Saduak. How? Travelling by long-tailed speedboat, on 19th-century canals built by King Rama IV.

In his latest works, dogs and pigeons contribute to a street-side bestial community. He becomed a master at evoking the loneliness of the city. Often paints with oil on aluminum sheets (but also oil on canvas), he draws attention to the interplay of man-made and nature, by which he instills a mood of contemplation and meditation. Typical to his spatially sensitive compositions, are his urban scenes. THERDKIAT WANGWATCHARAKUL is an artist from Thailand, born in 1971 end graduated in 2003, receiving a Master’s Degree in Painting from Silpakorn University. He was awarded the prestigious Jurors’ Choice Prize, in the 2000 ASEAN Art Awards. He is a master at evoking the loneliness of the big city. His unique brand of art has warranted inclusion in several domestic exhibitions (such as Singapore and USA, Japan, the Netherlands, Korea and Spain.

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