The beauty of the smallest fragments that form a perfect whole is reflected in "Lightscape", which is running at La Lanta Fine Art in River City Bangkok until May 3.
This is a solo exhibition by Sitvut Prabripoo who fuses his specialisation in coloured glass techniques with the style of Impressionist painting to create art inspired by the environment, living things and nature.
The exhibition illuminates the perpetual motion of natural light as it dances across mosaics of coloured mirrors, highlighting their brilliant yet brittle veneer against the softer textures of oil-painted details.
His majestic landscapes consider the relationship between fragment and whole -- cut into pieces of different sizes, the coloured glass coalesces rays of sunlight as they strike the surface of water, shatter into sparkling shards against ice and snow, wink through the leaves of a tree or soak into desert sands, while brushstrokes of oil paint introduce the life of the forest to the canvas.
In this series of works, he tears the familiar into pieces and builds it anew with a material that is "the essence of lustre and strength".
His coloured mirror landscapes reinterpret an ancient Thai artistic tradition by incorporating oil painting -- a new medium with contrasting slickness and depth that conducts the vitality of nature onto the canvas, while the coloured glass seems to enshrine and suspend time.
The tension between the two shifts, building and releasing, with the changing light. As a result, viewers are never merely appreciating a work of art, but simultaneously observing natural phenomena in action.
La Lanta is on the 2nd floor of River City Bangkok, Charoen Krung 24, and opens Tuesday to Sunday from 10am to 7pm.
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