H Gallery Chiang Mai will be hosting "Untitled", which showcases new paintings created especially for the gallery by Mit Jai Inn alongside his signature use of a soft geometric abstraction on double-sided canvases, sometimes coiled.
Untitled will be on show atHGallery Chiang Mai from June 3-July 31. The opening party is on June 2 at 5pm. The gallery is located500mbeyond the Tiger Kingdom inMaeRim, Chiang Mai (a short drive from Four Seasons Resort Chiang Mai and Dara Pirom Palace Museum). It is open to the public by appointment only on Sun-Tue each week. Call 085-021-5508.
Reminiscent of prayer flags or certain types of mandalas, the paintings' expressive surfaces, often extravagant colours and sense of objecthood also suggest condensed references to canonical art history.
This oscillation between the coded or symbolic and the autonomous is further pressured by the artist in a thrilling politics of form and colour.
Mit plays with references to the Thai national flag and divisive factions from the political landscape of this country, factions signified by particular colours.
The rhizomatic quality of Mit's paintings challenges conventional methods of contextualisation.
Influences from dominant narratives of art history, the idiosyncrasies of notions of contemporary art and issues of the relationship between aesthetics and politics reverberate in this exhibition. While challenges to conventional categories of understanding have been a staple of art practices for any number of decades, Mit re-invigorates the interest of ambiguity, divergence and multiplicity because of a freighted local backdrop that insists on the superiority of the unilateral, literal and linear.
Mit is one of Thailand's leading artists and is rapidly developing an international profile. He is also included in the 18th Biennale of Sydney 2012.
