Art Exhibition: Conversations: The Vivid Real

Artist: Panya Vijinthanasarn and Andrew Stahl

Dates: 19 July – 31 August, 2014

Venue: Thavibu Gallery

Vernissage: Saturday 19 July 2014 at 5 pm

Open: Monday – Saturday: 11:00 – 19:00

Thavibu Gallery is pleased to present the art exhibition Conversations: The Vivid Real — showcasing recent

paintings by Panya Vijinthanasarn and Andrew Stahl.

Conversations: The Vivid Real

This is the 3rd joint 2-person exhibition of Panya Vijinthanasarn & Andrew Stahl, but their first at Thavibu Gallery.

Both artists are committed to painting as a viable and magic contemporary medium. They focus on the

discussion of the poetic, imaginative and symbolic and share their belief in the ability of painting to present a

multi-layered and complex poetic view of the world around them.

Andrew and Panya often use their paintings to present contradictory arguments or unexpected juxtapositions

of both scale and subject matter. Panya‘s paintings revisit and reinvigorate traditional Thai and often Buddhist

iconography with a continual reference to today’s world and life force. Andrew’s paintings approach the vivid with

reference to the surrealist ideas of the marvellous. His paintings are often collections of thoughts and different

layers and juxtapositions. His interest in Asian culture stems from artists’ residencies in Thailand and other

parts of Asia. Both artists value the contemporary possibilities presented by intercultural interaction and the

electric potential that transcultural interaction can provide. Andrew lives in London and Panya in Bangkok. For

Panya the experience of studying in England (both artists are former graduates of the UCL Slade School of Fine

Art) and afterwards of painting the Buddha Padipa Temple in Wimbledon, London, provided him with a broad

international understanding of contemporary art and a sense of the importance of the transcultural.