ART TALK
PLOENPOTE ATTHAKOR
How you will celebrate this auspicious occasion? There will be a special exhibition on display in the gallery building's southern wing. It's divided into eight zones, and highlights the gallery's history and work over the past 30 years, individual works from various artists, the gallery's executives and their vision and photos from the gallery's archives, among other things.
What is the attraction of the event? It showcases 30 works by artists from different generations. The number symbolises the gallery's 30th anniversary, and some of the works are unseen. All items in the collection, which includes some masterpieces, conforms to one criteria: They have all previously been exhibited at the National Gallery.
The gallery's promotional poster collection, which contains items from 1987 - the second year we started - until now, is a notable inclusion.
About the masterpieces, where are those works from? Are they on loan by individual artists? Not exactly. All are from the gallery's storage room.
As you said, some are 'unseen'. How can they be rated 'masterpieces' at the same time? Those works are by outstanding artists who are not necessarily National Artists. One extraordinary work I would like to mention here is by Acharn Thawal Dachanee. The work, which lends Picasso's cubist style, is an experimental work from the artist's early years. It was made long before he eventually found his own style that earned him his reputation, and is hence yet to be seen. Another rare work is the portrait of His Majesty the King by the late Acharn Chamras Kiatkong, one of the country's best portrait painters. He is famous for his elegant female portraits - some of which are on display in our permanent exhibition.
What else do you have apart from paintings? The photos from our archive are no less interesting. We have a photo of Nanthawat Chantanapalin at an art workshop a long time ago. Now he has become a national artist.
Some artists may have forgotten they used to showcase their works here. The posters should rekindle some old memories for those artists.
'Sam Tosawat Haeng Karn Suebsarn Ngarn Silpa' (Three Decades of Arts Conservation), an exhibition to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the National Gallery, on Chao Fa Road, from tomorrow until October 29 (except Mondays and Tuesdays). Call 02-282-8525.
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