Tae Parvit, Thinking of Your Favourite Color, 2018

EXHIBITION
TAE PARVIT
Afternoon Person
28 April–17 June 2018
Following his previous solo shows, Awkward Relationship at JAM Café (2016) and Mnusychāti, at Speedy Grandma (2017), the new exhibition at BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY will feature a broad range of works from paintings and drawings to large-scale sculpture, animations and site-specific installation where recognizable objects and human figures in domestic scenes are the main subject portrayed. Impulsive and sentimental, his new sets of artworks continue to present emotions and feelings as well as perspectives of today’s generation through expressive brushstrokes, lines, colors and forms.
Parvit’s Afternoon Person reflects his ever-changing mood, day by day. Every studio-based works featured in the exhibition has its own narrative, a unique action that somehow links together. All elements featured in the artworks, being flower vases, potted plants or human forms in actions and interactions, were born out of safe and comfort, expressing his stream of consciousness, that certain moment when he creates these pieces. Both the front and the main galleries will showcase Parvit’s life and thoughts during the six-month period of his experimental workings on the show’s collection.
Afternoon Person comprises of narrations and human relations, told in full colors and mostly with unplanned compositions of figurative objects. “I like to draw the head first.” Parvit has said. “Then from there, I would just draw and manage within the canvas or paper space as I go on with the work. If there would be any errors in the process, I just ignored it and went with the flow.” With a spontaneity, his works communicate through accidentally beautiful images and characters where viewers are invited to freely feel, contemplate and comprehend his artworks in all ways possible as he has stated “It’s nice to hear what others think of my works. Sometimes they totally perceive something different from what I expressed in my artworks but that is fine. I like it when my artworks have a life of their own.”
SELECTED WORKS

Tae Parvit, Afternoon Person , 2018

Tae Parvit, A Cup on My Head, 2018

Tae Parvit, Office Party, 2017

Tae Parvit, Faith, 2018

Tae Parvit, Afternoon Swim, 2018

Tae Parvit. Friends from Work, 2018

Tae Parvit. Good Morning, 2018

Tae Parvit. Petanque, 2018

Tae Parvit The Life (Installation), 2018

ARTIST
TAE PARVIT
b.1991. Lives in Bangkok, Thailand
Tae Parvit expresses abstractions of reality through a myriad of means. Though practicing predominantly as a painter, his creative output has spanned the genres of animation, digital drawings, screen-printing, publication, music, performance, and to a lesser extent, mural painting as well. It is therefore unsurprising to find his paintings inflected with the characteristics of these varied genres, bearing nuanced traits of movement, textures, and narratives. Even though taking inspiration from personal experiences and the world around him, his works transcend merely being auto-biographical chronicles. Rather, he draws viewers into realms of colors that meld images, times, and stories in melodious harmony and counterpoint.
Although possessing limited formal training in the painterly tradition having graduated as a student of graphic design from the Swinburne University of Technology (Melbourne, Australia), Tae’s works demonstrate his masterful self-taught approach in the use of colors, scale, and composition to express particular moods and feelings. Regardless of whether painting spontaneously or following from his preparatory sketches, his completed paintings exude an energetic flood of consciousness that coalesce connections from the wellspring of the subconscious. And even across the other genres that constitute the entirety of his artistic practice, this palpable sense of energy has come to be a defining element – drawing audiences into a multi-sensorial environment generative of communal spirit and fellowship.
Following his graduation, Tae Parvit has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions in both Thailand and abroad, including two solo exhibitions and one special project at Bangkok CityCity Gallery as of 2020. In addition, under the auspices of ‘Interesting Pictures’ – a self-publishing collective he co-founded – he has also produced numerous publications and artist books. His practice is represented in private collections around the world.