Shedding

One of the earliest Thai artists to attain international appreciation, Thawan Duchanee has attracted as much controversy as critical attention. Highly adept with various media, it is however his monochromatic ballpoint pen drawings that he is best known for. Very frequently, he depicts a subject with fantasy melds with eroticism and violence in images of man and beasts in polymorphous states intended to connote human depravity within the spiritual framework of Buddhist philosophy.

The present lot, however is an interesting and cheeky play on the part of the artist who tackles a less profound theme. The subject who is depicted in an act of shedding his clothes is richly adorned with the artist's archetypical patterned surface, elevating the mundane gesture to a level of transcendence.