Kamin lertchaiprasert biography definition
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Problem-Wisdom 1993-95
A committed Buddhist, Thai artist Kamin Lertchaiprasert is concerned with combining the creative process involved in art-making with the daglig rituals and disciplines underpinning his personal beliefs.
Problem-Wisdom 1993-95 is a large floor-based installation consisting of 366 papier-mache sculptures. Lertchaiprasert sculpted each object in response to a problem affecting contemporary Thai society.
Every day for a year, he selected an article from a Thai newspaper, pulped the remaining paper and made a small hand-sized object that responded to the reported problem.
The following year, he systematically revisited each object and meditated on a solution. The solution (or wisdom) was inscribed in calligraphy on the object. Inherent in this work is the Buddhist and Daoist belief that everything in life - good and bad, right and wrong - exists in balance.
Lertchaiprasert uses the daglig rituals of reading, meditation and art-making to bring this balance into
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Kamin Lertchaiprasert
Kamin Lertchaiprasert has worked in a variety of media including painting, installation, printmaking, and sculpture. Acquired by the Guggenheim in 2012, Sitting (Money) (2004–2006). Lertchaiprasert has had solo exhibitions at the Numthong Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand (2000, 2001, 2003, 2009, 2012, 2014 and 2017); Art U-Room, Japan (2002, 2005, 2009 and 2014). MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand (2016). Notable group exhibitions include the Sydney Biennial (1993 and 2012); Utopia Station, Venice Biennale (2003); Busan Biennial, South Korea (2008); Meta-question: Back to the Museum Per Se, Guangzhou Triennial, China (2011); Negotiating Home, History and Nation: Two Decades of Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia 1991–2011, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore (2011) and Secret Archipelago, Palais de Tokyo, France (2015). Lertchaiprasert’s interest in collaborative art led him to cofound the land foundation (1998)—which involved the conversion of rice f
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KAMIN LERTCHAIPRASERT
カミン・ラーチャイプラサート
Kamin Lertchaiprasert:
Before Birth - After Death (Sculpture)
Oct.10 - Nov.2, 2014
Based in the city of Chiang Mai in northern Thailand since the mid-1990s, Kamin Lertchaiprasert considers art as a process for learning about the essence of life and the providence of nature, as well as for gaining a deeper understanding of himself. His approach to his art puts emphasis on the process, with the aim of integrating everyday life and art. The title of this exhibition, “Before Birth - After Death” is the comprehensive name for a project the artist has worked on over six years, between 2008 and 2014, resulting in a total of 730 diary-like drawings, 24 large paintings on canvas, 12 ceramic and 12 bronze sculptures, and an installation with a gigantic skull made up of a total of 1,089 small plastic skulls. This body of work has been displayed part by part at earlier exhibitions in Bangkok and other places, Art-U r