Pinaree Sanpitak
April 20 - June 30, 2013
Silk, synthetic fiber, battery, motor, propeller, sound device
at the Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, The Netherlands, March 3 - May 20, 2013.
at the Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, The Netherlands, March 3 - May 20, 2013.
The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
permanent collection
October 15 – December 30, 2012
Silk, synthetic fiber, battery, motor, propeller, sound device
Sydney Biennale, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
Sydney Biennale, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
Sydney Biennale, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
Sydney Biennale, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
Installation of hammocks made from traditional "Paa-Lai" printed cotton fabric
Silk, printed polyester dress, embroidery
76 1/2 x 48 1/2 in. (195 x 123 cm)
Silk, polyester, silk dress, feathers, embroidery
62.99 x 56.3 inches (160 x 143 cm)
Polyester, printed cotton dress, embroidery
78.74 x 55.12 inches (200 x 140 cm)
Chenille, Thai Kaw Gra-Shao blouse, embroidery
57.48 x 55.91 inches (146 x 142 cm)
Printed cotton, Thai Kaw Gra-shao blouse, embroidery
39.57 x 29.13 inches (100.5 x 74 cm)
Silk, Thai Kaw gra-shao blouse, embroidery
26.77 x 28.74 inches (68 x 73 cm)
The Art Center, Chulalongkorn University Bangkok, August 2011
The Art Center, Chulalongkorn University Bangkok, August 2011
The Art Center, Chulalongkorn University Bangkok, August 2011
wickerwork
wickerwork
Photo by Kaz Tsuruta.© Asian Art Museum, San Francisco.
Aluminum and mirrored glass
37 1/2 x 76 x 7 in. (95 x 193 x 18 cm), edition of 6 + 2 AP
Acrylic on shikishi paper
9 1/2 x 10 3/4 in. (24 x 27 cm)
Silk, synthetic fiber, battery, motor, propeller, sound device
dimensions Variable
Silk, synthetic fiber, battery, motor, propeller, sound device
dimensions Variable
silk, synthetic fiber, battery, motor, propeller, sound device
dimensions Variable
silk, synthetic fiber, battery, motor, propeller, sound device
dimensions Variable
silk, synthetic fiber, battery, motor, propeller, sound device
dimensions Variable
Dyed and starched donated used bras
Dimensions Variable
Dyed and starched donated used bras
Dimensions Variable
Bronze with gold leaves
47 in (120 cm) Diameter, 16 in (40 cm) Height
Bronze with gold leaves
47 in (120 cm) Diameter, 16 in (40 cm) Height
Organza, synthetic fiber, 200 pieces
Approximate Dimensions 1000 Square Feet (93 Square Meters)
Organza, synthetic fiber, 200 pieces
Approximate Dimensions 1000 Square Feet (93 Square Meters)
Cast aluminum
Dimensions Variable
Cast aluminum
Dimensions Variable
Wax and titanium powder
Dimensions Variable
Saa fiber, ratan
71 - 102 in (180 - 260 cm) height, 25 pieces
Saa fiber, ratan
71 - 102 in (180 - 260 cm) height, 25 pieces
Saa fiber, ratan
71 - 102 in (180 - 260 cm) height, 25 pieces
Acrylic, pastel and charcoal on canvas
79 x 59 in (200 x 150 cm)
Acrylic and charcoal on canvas
79 x 79 in (200 x 200 cm)
Charcoal, pastel, gold leaves and Saa paper on canvas
79 x 74 in (200 x 190 cm)
Acrylic, pastel, charcoal, pigment and sand on canvas
86 x 74 in (220 x 190 cm)
Tumeric, pigment and charcoal on Saa paper and canvas
75 x 67 in (190 x 170 cm)
Acrylic, oil pastel, fabric and paper on canvas
75 x 75 in (192 x 192 cm)
AMOA-Arthouse, Austin, Texas is currently presenting a solo exhibition of Pianree’s work, featuring her large-scale installation, Temporary Insanity (April 20 – June 30, 2013), which was exhibited in the artist’s 2012 solo exhibition at the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, VA. Later this year, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) will exhibit her large-scale installation, Hanging By a Thread, from June 22 – September 29, 2013. Pinaree was recently featured in a group exhibition, entitled Female Power, at the Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, The Netherlands (March 3 – May 20, 2013).
Pinaree is one of the most compelling and respected Thai artists of her generation, and her work can be counted among the most powerful explorations of women’s experience in all of Southeast Asia. For well over twenty years, her primary inspiration has been the female body, distilled to its most basic forms and imbued with an ethereal spirituality. The quiet, Zen-like abstraction of her work owes something to her training in Japan and sets it somewhat apart from the colorful intensity of much Thai art. Her rigorous focus on the female form, explored through a variety of media – painting, drawing, sculpture, textiles, ceramics, performance, and culinary arts, to name but a few – has resulted in an astoundingly varied and innovative body of work.
In 2012, Pinaree participated in the 18th Biennale of Sydney (June 27 – September 16, 2012) with a large-scale installation, Anything Can Break, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. Installed in a double height gallery of the museum’s new wing, the installation comprised hundreds of origami “flying cubes” and breast-shaped glass clouds suspended from the ceiling. Illuminated by fiber optics, the cubes and clouds were lined with motion sensors that trigger musical motifs in response to the audience’s movement.
Pinaree’s work has been featured in numerous museum exhibitions in Asia and Europe during the past twenty years, and she has participated in major biennials in Australia, Italy, Japan, and Korea. In 2011, her work was seen in institutions around the world, including: Here / Not Here at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco; Roundabout at City Gallery Wellington in New Zealand and traveling to the Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Negotiating Home, History, and Nation: Two Decades of Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia, 1991-2011 at the Singapore Art Museum; and Body Borders: Anything Can Break at the Art Center at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok.
For many years, and certainly since the birth of her son in 1993, a central focus of her work has been the female breast, which she relates to imagery of the natural world and to the iconic forms of the Buddhist stupa (shrine) and offering bowl. Often called a feminist or Buddhist artist, she resists such easy categorizations, preferring to let her work speak to each viewer directly, to the heart and soul, with the most basic language of form, color, and texture. Her work is not lacking in a conceptual framework, but it is one informed primarily by a deeply felt spiritual sense rather than by rigid dogmas or ideological constructs.
Pinaree presented her first New York solo exhibition, Quietly Floating, at Tyler Rollins Fine Art in March 2010. The exhibition featured a series of large, monochromatic paintings of breast and cloud forms. These motifs were repeated in a remarkable group of intimate works on Japanese paper, and in an installation of large, aluminum mirrors, cast at her foundry on the outskirts of Bangkok. As the exhibition title suggests, the works conveyed a sense of tranquility and weightlessness that was at once otherworldly and profoundly natural. Pinaree’s subsequent solo exhibition at Tyler Rollins Fine Art, entitled Hanging by a Thread, (2012) centered on an installation of the same title that was the artist’s response to the recent flooding in Bangkok, where she lives and works. Using traditional Thai printed cotton Paa-Lai fabrics of the type that were included in relief bags sponsored by the royal family, Pinaree constructed a group of woven hammocks that were suspended in the gallery from slender threads. These quiet, cocoon-like forms evoke a sense of nurturing, refuge, and contemplation, as well as the precariousness of life.
EXHIBITION CATALOGUE
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