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Take Turn
100 Tonson Gallery presents "Take Turn", solo exhibition by an outstanding young Thai artist, Prateep Suthathongthai
Prateep Suthathongthai uniquely plays out his creativity through the process of shooting, sequencing and displaying negative and positive film with the maintenance of the original record of the films. Photography records actual existence and the artist displays these existences through the negative as well as positive without changing the sequence of his shooting and without touch up. The meticulous process requires some twenty rolls of film to result in each piece of work.
Often times, we see photography presenting realistic image; Prateep has his own spectacular way to collect realistic/actual existence and re-tell it through his work of art. He concentrates on the complexity of what he records with the sense of discovery and exploration to retell in more meaningfully way.
"I take photo and turn around, walk up and down, and go to the same place time after time to look for undiscovered angles", says Prateep. The artist works on this new series as a continuation from his previous negative film works which focused more on temples and Thai architecture. The new series include modern day construction, amphitheatre in larger scale with a display of large format slides on light box.
Exhibition will be on view on May 14 - June 28, 2009, Thursday - Sunday between 11 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Artist Biography:
Born in 1980, Bangkok. Prateep Suthathongthai graduated with BFA from Rajamangara Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand in 2001 and MFA from Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand in 2006. He held solo exhibitions "Appearance" in 2006 and "Thai in Tai in Thai" in 2008 (part of Brandnews 2008, the art exhibition of outstanding young artist). Moreover, he has participated in the group exhibitions such as Month of Photography Bangkok 2nd (2004) and 3rd (2006), duo-exhibition "Vision Impossible" with Porntaweesak Rimsakul in 2005. Prateep started to explore the use of video medium in 2006 and was invited to participate in various events such as "What about WATER Short cuts", Iceland, "Ghost of the Coast", Australia in 2006, La ideo thaï, (as part of Videoformes 2007), France in 2007, and recently SEA Art Festival, Busan Biennale, Korea in 2008. He received Grand Prize of Asian New Media Art Competition in Jakarta, Indonesia in 2007
Organized by 100 Tonson Gallery
Exhibition: Take Turn/¡ÒÅ¡ÅѺ
Exhibition
Date: May 14- June 28, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday May 14 , 2009 at 7 pm.
Gallery’s opening Hours: Thursday - Sunday, 11 a.m.-7 p.m.
Admission: Free
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