Navin & the Kids (Visit) Taipei20002nd Taipei BiennaleTaipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan Sponsored by the Biennale, Navin Rawanchaikul and four students from Chiang Mai University travelled to Taipei for 10 days, each with traditional reed grass mat in hand. The project was organised in a similar context to Navin and His Gang Visit Vancouver back in 1997 but this time the artist’s partners were “the kids” and their […]
5th Lyon Biennale2000Lyon, France Curated by Jean-Hubert Martin, the Pha Khao Mar on Tour project dressed the European art crowd. The 20,000 pieces of cloth were sent to Lyon while about 100 emails were sent to Navin as feedback from people who received the cloth.
Fly with Me to Another World2000-01The Gift of HopeMuseum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan Part of a group show based around the concept of gifts, the curator interpreted the generational support between Inson Wongsam, Navin, and the young Thai scooter artists as being a “gift”. In addition to the billboard painting, fibreglass scooter model and the Fly with Me to Another […]
Fly with Me to Another world2000Summer ShowLaura Pecci Gallery, Milan, Italy For a group show at Laura Pecci Gallery in Milan, the replica sculpture of young Inson on his faithful Lambretta scooter was presented at a young gallery in Milan. Connected to the project at Le Consortium in Dijon, the two young artists from Chiang Mai joined Navin to build […]
Fly with Me to Another World2000Fuori Uso 2000 (The Bridges) Art on the Highway, Piazza Unione, Pescara, Italy In the same Italian town that Navin brought the ill-fated (police confiscated) scooter, an international group show was held under a highway in an outdoor public setting. The project included a temporary cardboard shelter which dressed up to resemble […]
Fly with Me to Another World2000Le Consortium, Dijon, France Almost identical to the award winning presentation at Art Basel but with a bigger space allocation, the project invited two young Thai artists from a Chiang Mai scooter gang to attend. Navin purchased a Lambretta scooter in Italy with the intention of his two protégés to ride the […]
Fly with Me to Another World2000Satani Gallery, Art Statements, 31st Art Basel, Switzerland Invited to exhibit in the Art Statements section of Art Basel, Navin Rawanchaikul went with the Japanese gallery Satani and ended up winning the prestigiousBaloise Art Prize that year. It was the first time he presented a three-part installation for this project, showing a series […]
Shakespeare in Taxi2000-01Facts of Life, Contemporary Japanese Art, Hayward Gallery, London, UK, 2000As it is, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK, 2001 Exhibited at two UK exhibitions in the space of a year, the custom painted black cab was supported by a two-volume comic book based upon the life of a Birmingham taxi driver. Playfully incorporating time travelling theatrics by William Shakespeare, the romantic tale […]
Same Same but Over the Edge2000Over the EdgesStedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K), Ghent, Belgium This outdoor art project invited artists to put artworks on the streets while Navin Production operated a mobile gallery. This was the first time that the taxi concept was diversified by painting the entire exterior shell of a public taxi with scenes taken from […]
Taximan Returns Tokyo2000Game OverWatari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan As a part of the group exhibition Game Over, a small transit passenger van was decorated into a Taximan shuttle bus that the public could ride between the three venues participating in the exhibition. Inside the gallery venue, a comic booth was set up where visitors could read and buy the 10-volume Taximan comics and […]