Conversations: The Vivid Real - Panya Vijinthanasarn and Andrew Stahl

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Panya Vijinthanasarn and Andrew Stahl

CONVERSATIONS:THE VIVID REAL

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CONVERSATIONS: THE VIVID REAL

Exhibition by

Panya Vijinthanasarn and Andrew Stahl

19 July 31 August, 2014

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4 CONVERSATIONS: THE VIVID REAL

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CONVERSATIONS: THE VIVID REAL 5

FOREWORDJrn Middelborg

Thavibu Gallery

Thavibu Gal ler y has the pleasure of presenting the current cata logue and exhibition,

CONVERSATIONS: THE VIVID REAL by two lecturers from famous universities teaching art,

Panya Vijinthinasarn from Silapakorn University, Bangkok and Andrew Stahl from UCL

Slade School of Fine Arts, London. The exhibition takes place in Bangkok, Thailand, on

19 July 31 August 2014.

The art ists are long time friends and collaborators and this is the third joint two-person

exhibition of Panya Vijinthanasarn and Andrew Stahl, and their first at Thavibu Gallery.

I take this opportunity to thank Panya Vijinthanasarn and Andrew Stahl for their collaboration.

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CONVERSATIONS: THE VIVID REALAndrew Stahl

This exhibition is a collaborative effort and both art ists are committed to painting as a

viable and magic contemporary medium. They focus on the discussion of the poetic,

imaginative and symbolic and share their belief in the ability of painting to present a

multi-layered and complex poetic view of the world around them.

Andrew and Panya often use their paintings to present contradictory arguments or

unexpected juxtapositions of both scale and subject matter. Panyas paintings revisit and

reinvigorate traditional Thai and often Buddhist iconography with a continual reference to

todays world and life force. His paintings are often monumental in scale and contrast a

dominant image with small details. There are writhing snakes, limbs, fragments and decorative

elements juxtaposed against a large-scale image, generally a Buddha head.

This reminds me of my first of encounter of the Buddha at Wat Pho where this gigantic

and awkward reclining figure immensely beautiful but with a weight and solidity thatreminded me of the corporal oddness and gravity of the human body in its vulnerability

juxtaposed on a completely different scale by the fleeting and supremely delicate minute

mother-of-pearl images on the sole of the feet of the Buddha. This mother-of-pearl activity

is happening on a different scale to the large Buddha; it suggests a set of thoughts, a mind

wandering and a determination to show the multiple and complex nature of thought and

context. Panyas and Andrews paintings are both interested in this layering and additional

dimensions.

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Both Panya and Andrew talk about the process of stepping back from the painting; looking,

adding, removing stepping back again, looking, adding detail, then stepping back as an

ongoing process. This becomes a conversation between the painting and the artist.

Panyas paintings are carefully and immaculately realised and have an effortless brilliance

and virtuoso quality. He quite often chooses to remove evidence of the artists hand in a

selfless way that puts his art in the objective public domain. Andrews paintings have a moreautobiographical approach; the symbolism that flows through the work is derived from life

experience and a fascination similar to Panyas with painting as a conversation. Andrew is

interested in a poetic and almost existentialist approach. He discusses the vivid (as referenced

in Alan Ginsberg in his poem Cosmoplitan Greetings) and refers to the surrealist ideas of the

marvellous. His paintings are often collections of thoughts and small images flowing across

the surface.

Both artists value the contemporary possibilities presented by intercultural interaction andthe electric potential that transcultural interaction can provide. Both have experienced each

others culture, Andrew lives in London and his interest in Asian culture stems from artists

residencies in Thailand and other parts of Asia. Panya lives in Bangkok and for Panya the

experience of studying in England (both artists are former graduates of the UCL Slade

School of Fine Art) and afterwards was in London painting the Buddha Padipa Temple in

Wimbledon, London. These experiences have provided both artists with a sense of contempo-

rary art beyond their own culture.

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PLATES

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Panya Vijinthanasarn |Mindfulness, 2014 |Acrylic and oil on canvas | 200 x 250 cm

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Panya Vijinthanasarn |Golden Mystique, 2014 | Oil on canvas | 150 x 150 cm

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Panya Vijinthanasarn |White Lotus, 2013 |Print and pen on paper | 73.5 x 102.5 cm

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Panya Vijinthanasarn |Realm of Naga, 2014 | Print and pen on paper | 73.5 x 102.5 cm

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Panya Vijinthanasarn |Realm of the Universe, 2014 |Print and pen on paper | 73.5 x 102.5 cm

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Panya Vijinthanasarn | White Ladder to Black Heaven, 1984 | | Etching on paper | 60 x 57 cm

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Panya Vijinthanasarn | Mind & Body, 1983 | Etching on paper, ed 8/12 | 13 x 16 cm

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Panya Vijinthanasarn |Why?, 1983 | Drypoint on paper | 13 x 16 cm

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Panya Vijinthanasarn & Andrew Stahl |Sea Float, 2006 | Acrylic and oil on canvas | 100 x 200 cm

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Andrew Stahl |Songkran, 2013 | Oil on canvas | 244 x 183 cm

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Andrew Stahl |Euston Road, 2014 | Oil on canvas | 120 x 90 cm

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Andrew Stahl |Origin of Everything, 2013 | Acrylic on paper | 75 x 58 cm

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Andrew Stahl|Fountain on Uxbridge Road, 2013

|Oil on canvas | 36 x 25 cm

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Andrew Stahl |Mimi-Stars, 2014 |Oil on canvas | 36 x 25.5 cm

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Andrew Stahl |Gion Rain, 2014 | Oil on canvas | 80 x 60 cm

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Andrew Stahl |Kiss, 2013 | Oil on canvas | 30 x 25.5 cm

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Andrew Stahl |Tune In 2, 2005 | Oil on canvas | 70 x 90 cm

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Andrew Stahl |Tureen, 2003 | Oil on canvas | 80 x 100 cm

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Andrew Stahl |Starry Night Fountain, 2005 | Oil on canvas | 35 x 50 cm

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CHRONOLOGY

Panya Vijinthanasarn

Panya Vijinthanasarn, formerly Dean of the Faculty of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Arts of

Silpakorn University in Bangkok, is presently a lecturer in the Thai Art Department, Faculty of

Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Arts of Silpakorn University. He studied in 1982 at the UCL, Slade

School of Fine Art on a British Council scholarship. Panya has shown internationally in galleries

and museums in many countries and widely in Thailand. From 1985-1987, Panya led a team to

decorate the Buddha Padipa Temple in Wimbledon, London, with neo-traditional murals thatdealt with the conventional subjects of the Three Worlds. This led to further commissions to

create the mural paintings for the Thai Pavilian at Expo88 in Brisbane and Expo92 in Seville.

During 1995-1996 he was commissioned by the Siam Commercial Bank to paint murals for

the new Head Office and he also collaborated in illustrating His Majesty The King of Thailands

book, Mahajanaka. Panya is also exhibiting in the international exhibition MD3 Fragility and

Monumentality at the Bangkok Art and Cultural Center.

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Andrew Stahl

Andrew Stahlis Head of Undergraduate Painting at the UCL Slade School of Fine Art in London.

Andrew has exhibited in London and the UK and widely internationally acrosss America, Europe

and Asia and several times previously in Thailand starting with the British Council show British

Painting in the eighties. He has received many awards including the Abbey Rome Scholar-

ship and the Wingate scholarship for travel in South East Asia. He has also participated in

public-funded residencies in Thailand, China, Australia and Sri Lanka. His exhibitions have

been frequently discussed in international newspapers and art journals and his work is in

many private and public collections including: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York;

Arts Council England; British Council; The British Museum and the Government Art Collec-

tion. Andrew is both exhibiting and the curator of the international exhibition MD3 Fragil-

ity and Monumentality at the Bangkok Art and Cultural Center, open till the end of August.

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