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Neung and Taem hold their first exhibition at Gallery Opium in Pattaya.
The Exhibition title, "Only One Point" stems from the artist’s names, "Neung" and "Taem" meaning "One Point".
Art Critic Michael Bulley about "Only One Point"
When our artistic ancestors, (the cave man) felt the need to express himself, his inspiration came from things he saw. Today’s modern artists are more concerned with things they feel. Both however have one thing in common, a relationship with the base material needed to display such works. Be it, parchment, paper, canvas, or fabric. In the case of the cave man, the cave walls, and I recommend a visit to the beautiful cave drawings of Lascaux in France. I also once visited the remarkable and truly beautiful artistic paintings of the great English lady, Emily Carr in Vancouver, who lived and loved the wilds of Western Canada. In 1850, she was so remote and poor with little connection to the outside world, that to paint her magnificent works of the Indian totem poles she was forced to use the bark of a tree.
Today’s great art is just as remarkable. The exhibition "Only One Point" at Gallery Opium on Thepprasit Road by two young Thai artists, Panuwat Hoonbamrung and Wittaya Pised reveal to us the base materials that they have been inspired to use are copper, steel and corrugated iron. Hoonbamrung’s strong, typically shiny blend of copper almost gold in reflection and his beautiful simple use of paint bring about an astonishing sheen or lovely lustre which I for one have never seen before. Pised finds his inspiration in the use of corrugated iron. He paints very strong bold eye catching designs conceiving the painting as almost abstract, but with the decorative pattern of a small moving bird. His works gives just the freedom needed to evoke a kind of softness that contrasts the structure of corrugated iron.
I cannot tell you that this is an exhibition not to be missed, extraordinary and striking by two gifted talented young artists who have the aptitude of skill and courage to make a strong impression in their own beliefs.
