นิทรรศการ "TIME LAND"

นิทรรศการ "TIME LAND" ผลงานโดย Gary Gagliano และ Ugo Li จัดแสดงระหว่างวันที่ 29 กันยายน - 7 พฤศจิกายน 2559 ณ YenakArt Villa art gallery

YenakArt Villa is presenting from the 29th of September to the 7th of November 2016 the exhibition “Timeland”, which is featuring two international artists, both very familiar with Thailand: Gary Gagliano and Ugo Li. Each artist will exhibit a selection of their newest paintings: Ugo Li oil and acrylic on canvas or paper; Gary Gagliano, enamel on canvas.

The name of the exhibition is coming from of one of Ugo Li’s paintings, inspired by the question he is very often confronted with: “How long have you been in Thailand?”.

All the exhibited artworks have been created in Bangkok, a city where a growing number of International artist are aiming to live and create. It seems that Bangkok is growingly attracting international artists, like Gary and Ugo, becoming little by little the “Berlin of Asia” (Berlin is in Europe the city welcoming the most international artists).

In addition to the fact that they are living and creating in Bangkok, the two exhibited artists have many common points. Both have a strong preference for vivid, strong colors and they both claim the influence of fashion on their creations. Their way of painting is similar: first, movements are very spontaneous and expressive, guided by their creative instinct; then, everything becomes more precise, delicate, controlled, aiming to harmony.

==About Gary Gagliano==

Gary Gagliano, born in 1972, is an American painter who attended the American Academy of Art Chicago. As soon as he graduated, he moved to New York where he set up his artist studio and became familiar with the most important figures in art, music, dance, photography, fashion and socialites of the city. He just left the Big Apple last June 2015, and moved to Bangkok, his new home, that will nourish him with creative energy, as did New York 20 years ago. Gary is familiar with Thai language, culture and Buddhism, having often traveled to Thailand, and even settled down for some time, in the late 1990’s in a small village, in the mountains, at the Thai border with Burma. During this period he used to travel with a group of Thai monks all around South-East Asia.

Gary works mainly in enamels on canvas large scale paintings, from monochrome to very colorful, almost exclusively non-figurative. When looking at the paintings, the viewer is first overwhelmed by the irregular repetitions, both material and spirit. And then what strikes is the three dimensional character of the paintings: the artist literally builds his paintings, which consists of row upon row of flattened whorls demarcating oval ellipses, that he fills with ridged circles, one on top of the other. When looking from the side, we see a surface of tiny repetitive peaks, built from concentric circles of paint, similar to stupas or to an expanse of mountains. The creative process and the technical process are coming along simultaneously in layers rolling along like gears in motion. When he starts a new work, the first layers are pretty spontaneous and expressive. But then, when it moves along, from the big picture into the micro, he gets much more controlled and concentrated. Gary then constructs the pieces from above, thanks to a plank with wheels he has himself built. This invention enables him to work closely on the painting’s horizontally placed surfaced and allows him control over the curving sweep of the wrist as he makes his art.

== About Ugo Li ==

Artists statement:
"I am a painter born in Paris, France in 1987. I studied at ESADHAR (fine art school) and graduated in 2011. I live and work in Bangkok. My work is highly personal, as it takes inspiration from things ranging from major events in my life, to mundane tasks like walking from my house to the neighborhood market. Images are gleaned from the news or magazines but I never work directly from them. I appropriate multiple visual signs. I emphasize, however, that the artistic junction where dreams, memory, thoughts and daily experience intersect isn’t a clear hierarchy. I don't try to categorize or divide modes of abstraction and figuration in my work either. I feel that it's the experience and the process of spontaneously evolving creation. My wandering around on the canvas causes the overflowing and multiplying of elements and colors, which often reveal to the audience what had previously been covered over, expanded, altered and scratched. This process pushes further until a positive dialogue and harmony with the whole is created'

Past exhibitions
2006: Salon d’automne de Barentin, FRANCE (group exhibition).
2006 : Biennal d’art contemporain du Bourg St Léger, FRANCE (group exhibition).
2007 : 20 years, 20 artists”, the French National Assembly Gallery, Paris FRANCE (group exhibition).
2011 : Galerie MAM, Art contemporain, Rouen, FRANCE (solo exhibition)
2011 : Utopia Almelo, PAYS BAS, (group exhibition)
2011 : Grande Galerie, Ecole des Beaux Arts de Rouen, FRANCE (group exhibition)
2012 : COMO SI FUERA LA PRIMERA O LA ULTIMA VEZ / Expériences Progressives, Montréal,CANADA (group exhibition)
2012 : L’Escalier, Montréal, CANADA (solo exhibition)
2012 : The Plant, Montréal, CANADA (group exhibition)
2013 : “Moving Picture Desire”, D Gallery, New York (group exhibition)
2013 : “Roommates looking for motion n a sunny and beautiful apartment”, Montreal,CANADA (group exhibition)
2014 : “ Oscillation” Speedy Grandma Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand (group exhibition)
2014 : “Luxx art fair” Luxx Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand (Art Fair)
2014 : “I love you too”, New perspective of art, Le Meridien, Bangkok, Thailand, (solo exhibition)
2016 : HOTEL ART FAIR, Ad Lib, The BARN, Bangkok, Thailand (Art Fair)