Thai Artists | Thaweesak Srithongdee
Thaweesak Srithongdee was born in 1970 and graduated with a Master in Fine Art from Silapakorn University. His style echoes the influence of Surrealism and Pop Art. Thaweesak
is a keen observer of people, their physical and mental
characteristics. Having
previously engineered a spurious race of Adonic, pectoral
defined, super-beings that played with perceptions of body
image, Thaweesak or Lolay as he is better known, expands his
fascination with the human condition to question our
existence and ultimate survival. Bruises and scars bear the
physical trace of individual fallibility, but they also
provoke assumptions as to the history and determiners behind
such inflictions.
Thaweesak has
participated in several exhibitions in Thailand. Moreover,
he had a successful solo show in Amsterdam, Netherlands in
2000, and has also exhibited in Germany (2000), Great
Britain (2001, 2006), Singapore (2001, 2003, 2004,
2006), Japan (2005, 2007) and Indonesia (2009). He was awarded a residency at the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan in 2005 and participated in the Fukuoka Triennale
in the same year, in the Jakarta Biennale in 2009 and the
Busan Biennale, Korea in 2010. Museum collections include Singapore Art Museum and Fukuoka Asian Art Museum. His paintings
have regularly sold at international auctions.
Gallery 1 |
2 (s) = sold
