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Natee Utarit
Natee Utarit
Illustration of the Crisis
Opening: 11 September - 6 -9 p.m.
12 September to 17 October
ARNDT Berlin is proud to present Illustration of the Crisis, the first solo exhibition of Thai artist Natee Utarit in the city of Berlin.
Looking at the past to understand the present.
On Natee Utarit's Illustration of the Crisis.
By Katerina Valdivia Bruch
Initially influenced by German Expressionism and abstract art in his early body of work, Utarit has undergone an exploration on the medium of painting connecting it with photography and classical Western art. Light and perspective are some of the elements the artist choses to work with, focusing on painting as a means to explore image making. In the last decade, his paintings have been inspired by old masters of Western art history from the Italian Renaissance - such as Fra Angelico () or Paolo Uccello () - and the Baroque era, approaching in a critical way Thai social subject matters.
Between and , Thailand was living a series of political contradictions that were affecting public life in the country. It was more a crisis connected to power relations and Buddhist belief rather than just an economical crisis related to the country's development. For the artist, Thai's current c
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Natee Utarit. Contemporary Thailand dressed in Florentine Renaissance
The work of Thai artist Natee Utarit (Bangkok ) reveals a singular attitude and a figurative language which significantly differentiate it from the artistic production in Southeast Asia today. Having studied at the Silpakorn University, founded by an Italian artist of the Florentine academic school, Utarit, like the Thai artists of his generation, learns a formal foreign language (local academic education provides the teaching ofEuropean art history), which is also a vehicle for a different cultural heritage, in this case the Western Christian one. Together with the traditional style and genres of European painting (historical painting, portrait, landscape, still life), the artist also learns the meaning of the religious symbols and icons of the Reneissance and begins to question the themes and characters they represent, focusing in particular on the similarities between western and Thai-Buddhist imagery.
From this comparison the artist generates his stylistic code: the search for a native identity and voice within the foreign styles learned (imposed) by the colonizers. Utarit’s visual stories are complex and unexpected allegories, they are born from the combination of various elements. Ancient and moder