In Bangkok a surrealist is born
Bangkok has loads of galleries to keeps the country’s artists busy, and I see a lot of stuff I like, but Waiyawut Promrut made me sit bolt upright, and he’s fresh out of art school.
The recent graduate of Silpakorn University is presenting these paintings and others in “re/vivre” from April 20 to May 10 at ArtGorillas, a gallery at the Lido in Siam Square that specialises in new talent.
Waiyawut Promrut, say the Gorillas, is going for a “revival of Renaissance art in the modern era, where lives evolve in perplexing ways”.
It also says his reinterpretation of masterpieces like Vemeer’s “The Milkmaid”, Jacques-Louis David’s “The Death of Marat” and Henry Fuseli’s “The Nightmare”, among others, “convey his own chaotic survival idea”.
A bunch of curator-speak, really, but to Waiyawut, well done on the use of frogs and octopi in a style realistic enough to amuse Señor Dali. Excellent deployment, also, of flamingoes, greyhounds and many, many rats and goats.
