Post-Neo Woodcut
By
Chayasit Orisoon
Teppong Hongsrimuang
Teerawoot Com-On
Patipon Supanpong
Ponprasit Chaiyaleot
Mazedphan Donkit
February 20 - March 29, 2025
ARDEL’s Third Place Gallery
(Thonglor soi 10)
The Neo Woodcut artists are the products of the golden age of woodcut printing in Thailand during the past decade. They all have their own unique and distinctive approaches to creating works of art. Many awards from world-class competitions are a good testament to their ability. The "Post-Neo Woodcut" exhibition will explore their artistic development once again, both in terms of expanding their creative styles and unfolding their ideas. The growth of these six artists, who are representatives of woodcut printing in Thailand, is reflected in these works.
Chayasit Orisoon, an artist of Tai Dam or Song ethnicity from Phetchaburi province, tells the story of the traditions of the Tai Dam people through his powerful and colorful woodcut prints that reflect the love, attachment, and pride in his ethnic group.
Meanwhile, Teppong Hongsrimuang stands out with his monochrome woodcut prints. Myriad exquisite details, when combined with the arrangement of images that resemble murals, create a surreal feeling from the overlapping dimensions in the work, revealing the artist's endless imagination.
Teerawoot Com-On opens up a space of personal memories by creating an atmosphere that is both soft and vague. By applying light gray tones, his woodcut prints are packed with the nostalgia of the past, both yearning and mourning, which has always been his signature.
Unlike Teerawoot, Patipon Supanpong’s works are expressed with solid symbolic shapes and clear weights of light and shadow, emphasizing the traces of abstract feelings. The remains of materials left over from the disaster were dismantled and reassembled by him, becoming a memorial of farewell that reminds us to accept and let go.
Ponprasit Chaiyaleot stands out with the extreme contrasts in his works, both in the use of bright contrasting colors and objects that appear to be hard but are easily broken, such as glass, to convey the complex subconscious of human beings, which seem clear but are full of mystery, tough yet, in fact very fragile.
Mazedphan Donkit creates semi-abstract woodcut prints that are unique with lines and colors. People or events encountered in daily life are reinterpreted and conveyed through the creation of a surreal ambiance, which encourages discussion of both ideas and perspectives.