"Latthapon Korkiatarkul is an artist with a special passion for materiality. He has been searching for different processes to transform physical conditions and properties of objects. In turn, allowing for definitions, aesthetics and connections between reality and objects to alter and change their values. One can say that he has created new meanings on the other side of the spectrum, existing beyond one’s ordinary imaginations and expectations. A bank note with all the details scraped off, an egg with polished surface that looks so glossy and marble-like are among the examples. His solo exhibition at Gallery VER four years ago, (Un)composition, featured a series of paintings whose compositions were freed of all constraints. The immaculate smoothness on the surface showed no traces of brush strokes, just remnants of hair from a paint brush and a cluster of dust buried under the layers of paints. The compositions became unpredictable. He created the work using painting techniques where paints were left to dry, trapping a bunch of dust particles from the air during the process. He then proceeded to place the captured particles, painting another layer to add an extra element to the thickness. All the steps are parts of the process that bases itself on time, without any representative use of symbols or stories, but merely the aesthetics of the objects appearing before one’s eyes.
His latest exhibition, “Conversation Piece”, a representation of another level of conceptual developments of the objects in his surroundings. Papers and canvases are transformed into three and four dimensional objects. There isn’t any resistance to the visuals he has created. He uses fundamental techniques of illustration such as drawing and painting in both vertical and horizontal axes, and basic artistic compositions like lines, weight, colors, surface and plains where the two objects act and react to each other, as well as the use of monochromatic colors with each of the plains. The techniques result in the naming of the painting and drawing pieces, following the methods and mediums the artist has chosen for each piece."
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