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La Lanta Fine Art
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Untold Traces
Kittikong Tilokwattanota and Shin Koyama
The Art Haus by La Lanta Fine Art
River City Bangkok
October 20 – November 10, 2024
The Art Haus is delighted to present “Untold Traces” an exhibition that examines printmaking as a medium by two talented artists and long time friends: Kittikong Tilokwattanota and Shin Koyama. As the title suggests, Kittikong’s interest in self-inquiry and Shin’s remixing of Japanese history and current culture share an emphasis on traces.
Traces are marks that are left behind. It is a vital element to meaning and understanding.
As essential as they are to the articulation of our personal and collective identities, traces are often overlooked and dismissed as partial vestiges of what once was. Kittikong and Shin’s works bring them out of the periphery, showcasing their rich reservoirs for research, experimentation and storytelling.
Shin draws from Japan’s artistic and cultural heritage to create idiosyncratic expressions of contemporary Japanese identity. The playful and provocative arrangements of historical and visual traces that envelop his characters interrogate the role of the artist as historian.
For Kittikong, printmaking is a practice of turning inwards: an observation and composition of the traces of the self as they emerge in colors, forms and characters. Viewers of his works encounter the potency of the meeting of introspection and the pursuit of beauty: a rawness and authenticity that allows the presence of the self to be fully felt.
“Untold Traces” is on display October 20 until November 10, 2024 at The Art Haus, 2nd Floor, River City Bangkok, Charoenkrung Road soi 24, Talad Noi, Samphanthawong, Bangkok. Opening hours: Tuesday – Sunday, 10 am – 7 pm.
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