Taximan2000About Studio / About Cafe, Bangkok, Thailand A solo exhibition at Bangkok’s alternative art space and cafe located in Chinatown, 10 cars were dissected and the interior roofs painted with mural scenes adapted from a corresponding 10-volume Taximan comic series. The cab roofs were suspended from the ground floor gallery ceiling, while upstairs visitors were invited to post their thoughts on […]
Taximan2000Navin RawanchaikulNavin Gallery Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand Organised alongside Navin Rawanchaikul’s solo exhibition at About Studio / About Café, in which an installation of dissected taxi roofs were presented with the Taximan comic series, Navin’s Taxi Gallery also presented a mobile version in the Bangkok traffic. A colourful mural with the Taximan theme was installed as the interior roof of Navin Gallery Bangkok […]
The Beach2000Philippe ParrenoNavin Gallery Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand French conceptual artist Philippe Parreno likes to challenge viewer perceptions and perspectives as to what reality is. Responding to the movie The Beach, which was filmed in Thailand around the time of the exhibition, Parreno looked at how this group of travellers were chasing an imaginary utopia. Keeping the work hidden from both the […]
Taxi Prinz Bonn1999
Same Same but Yesterday1999Lydmar Hotel, Stockholm, Sweden Credited as a promoter of contemporary art, at this famous hotel in Stockholm, a copy of the Navin Production comic was placed in every room as if it were a bible. A large low-relief mural panel with layers that stood out from the wall was presented on a wall inside the […]
Cities on the Move VII1999Krisma, Helsinki, Finland At a plush design museum in Helsinki, both the broken tuk-tuks were displayed as something of a legend while the organisers produced a new poster telling the happy ending of this seven-part fictional film. Kosit visited the show with his Thai wife and they happily enjoyed honeymoon there.
Cities on the Move VI1999Bangkok, Thailand After two years on the road, Cities on the Move came to Bangkok but both the broken tuk-tuks were left in Europe. The two artists managed to negotiate with the local tuk-tuk manufacturer, securing 20 tuk-tuks to be used as free shuttles between the different exhibition venues. They also functioned as a mobile gallery through collaborations with local artists and Tsuyoshi […]
Cities on the Move V1999Hayward Gallery, London, UK Battered and bruised after enduring two extreme European winters, the two broken tuk-tuks were parked up in London as exotic art refugees from the Orient. One of them was displayed inside the gallery showing footage from different cities across the screens on the three cameras in the back seat, while the other was […]
Cities on the Move IV (Midnight Sun)1999Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebeak, DenmarkArtspace1%, Copenhagen, Denmark Back in Europe, both tuk-tuks were transported to Copenhagen by truck. Again, it was in the winter and the tuk-tuks had no chance of operating in the harsh Scandinavian weather. After several unsuccessful tests, the organisers suggested parking them as art objects again. However, since the project took place at two different […]
Fly with Me to Another World1999Guanrene Arte 99, Foundazione Sandretto Re Rebaundengo per L’Arte, Guanrene, Italy For the project debut, the first Fly with Me to Another World billboard painting was presented for the group show at Foundazione Sandretto Re Rebaundengo per L’Arte promoting five young international artists. The painting pertained to Inson Wongsam’s scooter trip from Thailand to Europe, as well as his […]