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Art Around SAM Bookshelf by Torlarp Larpjaroensook (Hern)20 September 2011 to 7 November 2011No. 8, Singapore Art Museum at 8Q
Torlarp Larpjaroensook (Hern), Bookshelf, 2011, oil on canvas (installation)
Torlarp Larpjaroensook (Hern), born in 1977, is an emerging Thai artist based in Chiang Mai. At the age of 16, he enrolled at the College of Fine Arts in Bangkok and later graduated from the Fine Arts Faculty at Chiang Mai University with a BA (Visual Art) in Painting and Printmaking. His practice alternates between art and design, and dwells between function and aesthetics. For Hern, the “books” in Bookshelf represent the various trends and histories of contemporary art. These books are actually appropriated oil paintings in impasto style, based on popular and widely available art books.
As with all books, the full value of their content is gained when they are read. However, in the case of art books, where heavy visual elements complement the written word, a person could skim through its pages, focusing only on the pictures and assuming the book has been well read and understood. For the artist who reads mainly in Thai, this case is not only usual but personal. As an artist, Hern often feels frustrated and unfulfilled when encountering such books. His access to knowledge of a wider, more international and current practice of art is limited to the number of pictures included in a book.
In Bookshelf, the function of the book is reversed and the “books” are now consumed directly through their visual quality.
The work is co-commissioned by SAM and the Singapore Writers Festival 2011, and supported by the Heritage Gala Fund.
3147966 cm3 mobile gallery by Torlarp Larpjaroensook had joined Chiang Mai Now Exhibition curated by Angkrit Ajchariyasophon at Bangkok Art and Cultural Center.
3147966 mobile gallery by Hern went on a tour few weeks ago to the old city area of chiang mai.
it had been parked in the antique architectural house right in the middle of the old city.
especially on every sunday when the nearby streets has held the sunday walking streets,3147966 became harmonious with the tuneful music in the green garden with the stunning cultural architure behind and local plants and grass fully flourish up on the top's mini garden.
works curated were the sketches from yonyang group's leader artist: P' Jung
3147966 is now back at the quarter and plans for the next tour
From Ayudhaya’s canal to “Post-modern” territorial airspace
Writing this article,…is not easy because, in any case, artist will usually ask someone who is close to himto write about him and to give him some nice compliments…or optimistically, to explain the virtue of his works
But no..if he ask me, I should be beneficial from writing this article, too
From looking at his works, having conversations with him or asking him questions….. there were many times when I observed the artist doing his artworks and I had fallen into the trap of his questions that he had set secretly ….then we would be busy defining them… with many theories…,or enjoyed analyzing them until forgot to eat, wasting our times..
The more I look at his works, the easier they are. They are true, not beating around the bush nor being bustle.
And when I have associated with the artist, do you know what I have found? The Philosophy!!!!
Can we separate art from life? This question has been asked so many times and when most people say yes, it is possible, from my observation; they are not people whom I want to associate with that much. They seem difficult.
Torlarp Larpjaroensook, as I can tell, once you have stepped into the empire of his mind, he may be the only one in this creative realm that you suddenly think of him and want to walk to him then say “I think of your works… do you know where they lead me to?... they don’t lead me to the beauty that I have raised up with so far nor the dogmatic thought of learning..but they are the atmosphere, the voice of things and the pure heartfelt feeling”.
Especially when artist and artworks are not separated, if you can meditate until you reach the abstract state, you will realize that the artist and his works are the same copy that no one knows which one is the original.
And it is even more important when his works have not been through the process of attitude elaboration but is only the re-arrangement of personal taste from the former experiences aspect which is beautifully pumped out through the subconscious.
It may sound like a bird coos in the morning, we do not know what he sings but it is so beautiful that we, somehow, want to be the early riser.
In conclusion, to be straightforward, I would like to praise this artist because I admire him and want to persuade the aesthetes to see the delicate things which have not been divided, between artist and his works.
Do have fun and enjoy the exploration on the reversed meaning from “Post Modern” territorial airspace to the small and sincere aesthetic waterway from a man from Ayudhaya’s canal
Hern is Torlarp Larpjaroensook, a Thai artist who resides in Chiang Mai. He was born in 1977, 9th of December and started the art education at College of Fine Arts, Bangkok at the age of 16 then graduated from Fine Art Faculty, Chiang Mai University with the Bachelor's degree of Visual Art in Painting and Print Making. He is also interested in art and design.
In his paintings, mixed media technique is always used to emphasize the concept of "Functional Art" which found objects are added with different values and transformed into usable art piece.
Later on, the idea of “Functional Art” becomes more concrete since he had designed and built his own house including almost all of the furniture inside. According to this, he had gained his interests in designing and this is where “Hern Shop” had started.
"Hern shop" is the Functional Art shop located in Gallery See Scape area, Chiang Mai. It is the alternative choice for people who keen for the different and free-styled life. Besides his works, there are also works from different other artists.
Moreover, Gallery See Scape is also an open art space for any creative ideas such as art exhibition, workshop, filming, performances,etc.
- hern shop - gallery see scape 22/1 nimmanhemindra soi 17 T.Suthep, Muang Chiang Mai 50200 Thailand open 11am - 8pm everyday
- hern studio - 165 moo 7 baan chang thong T. Suthep, Muang Chiang Mai 50200 Thailand +66 81 7962680