Bangkok Governor
Warawut Srisopark
In collaboration with Baan Noorg Collaborative Arts and Culture
Warawut Srisopark, born in 1969, lives and works in Bangkok, received his Master’s Degree in Historical Archaeology at Silpakorn University in 1996. He specialized in documentary production and historical exhibition design, which have been displayed in various museums in Thailand. His background in history combined with oil painting skills have resulted the oil portrait paintings he has been developing for the past 10 years enclosed with layers of interesting connotations. In Bangkok Layers exhibition, Warawut develops portraits which often conceal with secretive codes through facial appearance, eye expression, backdrop or even costumes and accessories of the person. Even though his paintings are not detail wise as in realistic paintings, the dimension of Warawut’s portrait painting development has raised questions in 2 areas: the image of the person appeared in the place-space and time, and, the complex and overlapped historical images, archives or notes from narratives, personal details which are fragments, traces in an artist’s painting; a trick or a tool for audience to deconstruct the painting structure as typical painting that signifies an individual person, reveals the identity, an in depth psychology or mentality, the rank or power of person in the painting in the act of a historical archive through this representation method for substituting or intervening the reconstruction of mainstream historical-archaeology.
Warawut Srisopark
Bangkok Governor, 2018
Oil painting, 70 x 50 cm
In collaboration with Baan Noorg Collaborative Arts and Culture
Warawut Srisopark
In collaboration with Baan Noorg Collaborative Arts and Culture
Warawut Srisopark, born in 1969, lives and works in Bangkok, received his Master’s Degree in Historical Archaeology at Silpakorn University in 1996. He specialized in documentary production and historical exhibition design, which have been displayed in various museums in Thailand. His background in history combined with oil painting skills have resulted the oil portrait paintings he has been developing for the past 10 years enclosed with layers of interesting connotations. In Bangkok Layers exhibition, Warawut develops portraits which often conceal with secretive codes through facial appearance, eye expression, backdrop or even costumes and accessories of the person. Even though his paintings are not detail wise as in realistic paintings, the dimension of Warawut’s portrait painting development has raised questions in 2 areas: the image of the person appeared in the place-space and time, and, the complex and overlapped historical images, archives or notes from narratives, personal details which are fragments, traces in an artist’s painting; a trick or a tool for audience to deconstruct the painting structure as typical painting that signifies an individual person, reveals the identity, an in depth psychology or mentality, the rank or power of person in the painting in the act of a historical archive through this representation method for substituting or intervening the reconstruction of mainstream historical-archaeology.
Warawut Srisopark
Bangkok Governor, 2018
Oil painting, 70 x 50 cm
In collaboration with Baan Noorg Collaborative Arts and Culture
