Exhibitions
Rosewood Bangkok Hotel
Sep 01 - Nov 30, 2020
All images by Courtesy of Subhashok The Arts Centre
As life plays out in front of our eyes, millions of tiny details are hidden in the context, some passing by before we ever understand their importance. Quite often everything can move around quickly, focused on the spacing of time more than the stationary objects in our surroundings. Whether consciously evaluated or not, the continual juxtaposition of these fluid and solid elements in life brings confusion and conflict.
Take a Peek, 2017, Oil on linen, 160 x 118 cm
While…, 2019, Oil and Acrylic on linen, 180 x 120 cm
Kwangkaew’s solo exhibition “Variations of Pauses” is a part of his solo exhibition “A Symphony of Pauses” in Subhashok the Arts Centre. A range of sounds and movements, reminiscent of a symphony. The visual world is ephemeral, the mental world is seemingly eternal. The symphony of the elements that combine to create our memories is timeless. Layered within this there are many variations consisting of simple, usually harmonized melodies. They appear first in their original forms, being then repeated several or many times. Each time they carry a varied treatment connected to the theme, pulling together the general melodic or harmonic form in an evident way. Each painting represents a variation of a moment, a series of pauses that accumulate to a powerful movement that effortlessly builds on itself. In this exhibition we will focuses on those ordinary things as time can changes rapidly before our eyes, quite often faster than we realize. The unspoken desire to stop the hands of the clock and savor all the moments would be desirable if we even knew which parts would be important to us in hindsight.
The Light and Sound Whisper, 2020, Oil on linen, 63 x 48 cm
Kwangkaew’s desire to be able to study each memorable moment in search of the answers to life is emphasized in the compositions he presents in this series. There are things that can change, growing with time and things that cannot be locked into a state of stability. His brushstrokes that project super realism are the slow moments in life or rather the object of attention, the main character. The blurred images are those moments that are going by quickly around this focus. This concept of time plays out continuously but it’s quite often too fast for us to see. Many times in life we feel something happening in our surrounding only to see nothing as we suddenly turn around. Some things change to fast to see, leaving behind traces of what was and questions of what could be.
The Gradual Change on Blue, 2020, Oil on linen, 125 x 100 cm
If treated with the utmost sincerity, If we could just focus on the idea that a stationary object could be the main focus in a moment of time, this could actually contain the knowledge of that which is the explanation of life, the illusion of time. As a flower changes quickly in its brief life, Kwangkaew’s paintings become the flowers time. From the perception of the flowers concept of time, it is unaware of its own quick blossom and ending. It too sees the fast movement of its surroundings and can’t even enjoy its ephemeral beauty.
A Lesson from a Moment in Time, 2020, Oil on linen, 125 x 100 cm
Chayanin Kwangkaew (Born 1990), graduate from B.F.A and M.F.A of Painting Sculpture and Graphic Arts, Silpakorn University. He won Second place, Krung Thai Art Awards 3 in Thailand in 2017, was highlighted in some group exhibitions in Malaysia and joined the Art Expo 2016 - 2018 in Malaysia, Featured in the 4th UOB Painting of the Year competition and Singapore Art Stage 2017.
