Bangkok--15 Jan--Pullman Bangkok Hotel G
Bangkok’s newest and most stylish lifestyle hotel, Pullman Bangkok hotel G on vibrant Silom Road, is delighted to present its latest Art Exhibition: Love & Faith from Hathairat Kumsrichan and Ruthairat Maneerat. Both artists have won first prize in the nationally prestigious Bualuang Painting Exhibition. The Exhibition will be on viewed from January 1st until March 29th, 2013.
According to Professor Chrud Nimsamuew, (recognized as Thailand’s National Artist of the Visual Arts in 1998), "The painting of the artist is a reflection of the life of the artist”. The intimate art of the artists presented, Ruthairat and Hathairat, proves this concept very well. The work of each of them conveys a sense significantly through their material and fabric and represents the art, love and faith of people and things surrounding them.
Miss Hathairat Maneerat chooses to describe her feelings through Thai Thangka paintings, which are examples of Buddhist symbolism, communicating her feelings of love towards her late mother and her faith in making merit. Her work movingly describes feelings and thoughts during her deepest loss. Her sorrow was alleviated through the work of art entitled ‘Thangka Painting of Mother’.
Miss Ruthairat Kumsrichan expresses her sense of love, the warmth of her family, and her faith in Buddhism as strength and inspiration for her magnificent and creative art. Those arts which communicate the beauty of Love and Faith through painting and embroidery on fabric reveal the simplicity and sincerity of these human qualities.
About the Artists
Both artists, Ruthairat Kumsrichan and Hathairat Maneerat, graduated with Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the Faculty of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Arts from Silpakorn University. They both have won many national contests, including the Bualuang Painting Exhibition Award, which is considered a prestigious award for art in the country. Hathairat won the first prize in 2005 and second prize in 2007 and 2009. She is currently a lecturer at the Faculty of Fine Arts and Architecture of King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Bangkok. Ruthairat won the first prize in 2006, the second prize in 2008 and third prize in 2004. She is currently a lecturer at the Faculty of Painting, Sculpture and, Graphic Arts of Silpakorn University.
Curator’s View (by Pakorn Klomkliang, Curator of the Art and Culture Center)
Hathairat Maneerat and Ruthairat Kumsrichan as artists explain their love and family bonding through embroidery with implicit faith in Buddhism. These art pieces reveal the mood and feeling without using color painting, tactility demonstrating the “Truth of the Material”. Moreover, they are truly “handmade” showing “The Variety of Stitches”. They also reflect the characters of the artists themselves in the seams and stitches. Their contributed art pieces also communicate their faith in Buddhism. Ruthairat’s new series describes the happiness, warmth and brightness of her family ties and faith in Buddhism, some of her work utilizing the Tschati Allegory. Hathairat uses a darker tone, serious and not very detailed, expressing the sadness of the loss of her mother. Remarkably, Hathairat used her own mother’s fabrics and cloth to construct the piece ‘Thangka Painting of Mother’, dedicated to the merit of her late mother. Each of the artists has their own uniqueness and has created fascinating, significant embroidery.