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SUMMARY:นิทรรศการ \"โหยสยาม ไทย�
 ��ระดิษฐ์\" (Longing  for Siam, Inventing Thailand)
DESCRIPTION:\nNumber1Gallery proudly presents Longing for Siam, Invent
 ing Thailand, by Sutee Kunavichayanont an exhibition of contemporary a
 rt that yearns for a past when Thailand, her borders constantly shifti
 ng and indeed sometimes contracting even as she sought territorial exp
 ansion, was on the brink of becoming a powerful nation.  Sutee Kunavic
 hayanont is a leading Thai artist who first came to prominence in 1998
  with his elephant, buffalo and tiger-shaped breath donation sculpture
 s crafted from rubber. A second seminal series, History Class, was beg
 un in 2000. Interactive, the series, appearing in several forms from t
 he turn of the century, is composed of re-appropriated children’s wo
 oden school desks that the artist has engraved with scenes illustratin
 g Siamese/Thai history. Extending an invitation to all viewers to make
  rubbings from the engraved surfaces of the desks, Sutee is in fact gi
 ving his audience the opportunity to produce their own Thai political 
 history text books.  Sutee had participated in several significant int
 ernational art events such as 1st Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary A
 rts (1999) in the United Kingdom, and the 5th Asia-Pacific Triennial o
 f Contemporary Art, Brisbane, Australia (2006). His works are in the c
 ollections of prominent art museums and galleries worldwide including 
 the Mori Art Museum, Japan, The Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan, the S
 ingapore Art Museum, Singapore, and the Queensland Art Gallery, Austra
 lia. In 2006, Sutee received a prestigious Manas Siensing Red Award 2 
 from the Pridi Banomyong Institute for his outstanding artistic creati
 ons and art related contributions.  Longing for Siam, Inventing Thaila
 nd, is a solo exhibition featuring Sutee’s latest body of works. Wit
 h these new works, the artist invites viewers to look back at “Thai 
 Mai” (New Thailand) from the 1930s to 1940s, a period when national 
 unity was being built, the government using art to construct the natio
 n. The show aims to offer a flashback to a time when the Kingdom of Si
 am’s early borders were being drawn. And during those years when the
  Kingdom’s physical outline was evolving, the “hats and shoes” w
 ere striving to make Thailand a powerful nation and extremely patrioti
 c state.  Longing for Siam, Inventing Thailand is an installation comp
 rising 600 small plaster soldiers, stop-motion video projections, and 
 a video performance of the artist drawing on a huge black wall. The in
 stallation is presented in a setting designed to evoke the historical 
 period preoccupied with the leadership’s slogan “Mala Nam Thai Soo
  Maha Umnaj” [The hats that lead Thailand to become a great nation.]
 . Viewers will be encouraged to participate in national map-making in 
 an atmosphere that, thanks to old patriotic songs and tunes, recalls t
 hose long-ago times.   For high resolution of images please down load 
 at www.number1gallery.com/News/Sutee/ For more information please cont
 act Khun Korakot Sridee Tel: 083 445 8333, 02 630 2523\n\n\n\n\nFor mo
 re information visit http://www.portfolios.net/events/longing-for-siam
 -inventing
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CATEGORIES:exhibition, of, contemporary, art
LOCATION:Number 1 Gallery
WEBSITE:http://www.number1gallery.com
URL:http://www.number1gallery.com
CONTACT:02 630 2523
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