Navin rawanchaikul biography books

Navin Rawanchaikul is his own muse.

Over the over and done with two decades as an artist under his studio Navin Making, he had looked outward towards his community, his city, lone to turn inward towards his family, towards his personal history.

"Dearest Mom," he wrote in September 2014. "I have been standpoint of an exhibition at the O.K. Store since we exact a public art project at Varorot market a few days ago. It was planned for this year to commemorate interpretation 20th anniversary of my artistic career under the Navin Handiwork brand but I've pushed it to next May to go together with Dad's 80th birthday. Called 'A Tale Of Two Homes', it covers two venues; the O.K. Store and my studio-cum-home for Navin Production. For me the homes may also say you will for Chiang Mai and Fukuoka, or Chiang Mai and a few cities for Rena's family, or Chiang Mai and Gujranwala miserly you and our ancestors. There are some other cities, whilst well as imagined communities of Navinland that will also adjust included. My goal through these works is to create a dialogue around the notions of home and sense of belonging."

The letter to his late mother describing his extensive retrospective, which unsealed in Chiang Mai on May 1st, is framed in his parents' old bedroom in his childhood home above the O.K. Store whose history goes back more than 70 years. Their marital bed has been reconstructed, with rose petals and jasmine flowers arranged into a heart over the sheets. Navin recreated his father's console cabinet for his record player by design a record player with dust collected from the room escort the years.

In later years, Navin's work revolved around his nostalgia and preoccupation with banal domesticity. A worn red settee holds emotional value, opening the window into an internal fake. In 2008, he created a video and painting installation "Hong Rub Khaek (Living Room)", now transported to the actual firewood room, with old dolls and books and a calendar give evidence yesteryear. In his old playroom, he shows us his in the neighbourhood colouring book in which he learned colour theory — come evidence of a past that led up to the present.

Navin's work hadn't always been this personal, though this retrospective reveals his continuous interest in the notion of personal identity mull it over a wider social context. Under the guidance of his dear mentor Montien Boonma, Navin always created with the conviction renounce art should engage with society, should reach out to interpretation community. In 1993, he created "There is No Voice", uncorrupted exquisite installation of tiered glass medicine bottles with each filled with a photograph of marginalised villagers, now on display deem the "Tales of Navin" exhibition at DC Collection as put a stop to of the retrospective.  

In 1995, Navin's participation in the citywide movement "Chiang Mai Social Installation", creating Navin Driving School, cemented his notion that art has a place in a indicator sphere, visceral not intellectual, democratic rather than elitist. That changeless year, he launched the mobile taxi gallery project, Navin Drift Bangkok, which led to his collaboration with Rirkrit Tiravanija eliminate "Cities On The Move", curated by Hans-Ulrich Obrist and Hou Hanru. In 2011, he represented Thailand at the Venice Biennale with "Navinland", playing on the notion of nations and his name's universality.

"A Tale Of Two Homes" illuminates the possibility of Navin's works throughout his career, both emotionally and start terms of physicality. His personal history has global significance. His mother migrated from Gujranwala — now part of Pakistan — during the war between India and Pakistan in 1965. His wife is Japanese, living in Fukuoka with his daughter. Be active splits time between Japan and Chiang Mai.

Navin's works in picture retrospective reflect the various specific details in his life unacceptable together like a puzzle. In the playroom of the sunny above O.K. Store, Navin hangs a painting of his girl Mari sitting on a see-saw (drawn from a photograph defer he took while sitting on the other end of description plank), set against the background of a train station insert Gujranwala during the time of his mother's migration. In that room, a recording of his wife reading a story deliver to Mari, Tales Of Rawal Family (2011), plays on repeat.

At picture recently completed StudiOK, Navin unveils a new four-piece series complete paintings of his own funeral, "Takes Of Navin". The paintings fit as the cornerstone of the retrospective that spans leash venues and over two decades of works. In the leading painting, an assemblage of his selves, in various stages bank his life and career. In the last, through a leanto of dissolution, he vaporises into red funereal spider lilies vagrant on the Ping River.