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Phuthip Chantaraksa
Imagination Sanctuary
Richard Koh Projects, Bangkok

Richard Koh Projects is pleased to announce Phuthip Chantaraksa’s (b.1995) solo exhibition in Bangkok, Imagination Sanctuary, scheduled to run from 7 – 21 September 2019. The artist will present 6 recent oil on canvas works.

Imagination Sanctuary is Phuthip Chantaraksa (b.1995, Thailand) latest series of works in which is framed within art writer, Walter Schurian’s emphatic declaration, “A place of imagination is at the edge of truth”, published in his 2005 book entitled; Arte Fantastico. It passionately discusses the notions of ‘truth’ in art and its various levels of acceptance. In this body of works, Phuthip pursues this notion through his reinterpretation of ‘reality’ via his visual constructs, pushing through the comfort zones of psychological familiarity within the human mind.

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If the concept of truth is regarded as a human construct, then what is deem as truth? Are there social perimeters that dictate truth? In Imagination Sanctuary, Phuthip investigates the boundaries of this debate via the mechanics of imagination in artmaking. By extension, the works in this exhibition invites viewers to ponder if ‘truth’ lies within the canvas or in the recesses of the human mind.

Forms in his pictorial plane are at times both familiar and foreign, derived from his immediacy of varied brush stroke techniques, capturing the mental state of his execution. Color also plays an important role in his artmaking and is employed to depict certain notions of ‘truth’ and in particular, bold and bright colors are utilized to activate the ‘imaginative nerves’ of viewers. These conceptual underpinnings manifest itself into a stylistic form of semi-abstraction that is unique to Phuthip’s art practice.

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