Mexican artist Fernando Aceves Humana will showcase his recent works produced during his residence at Toot Yung Art Centre, for one month starting Feb 8.
A painting by Fernando Aceves Humana.
"Wounded Eden" features a broad selection of sketches and portraits as well as studio works produced at the gallery, and painted in Thailand and Cambodia from last November to February this year.
For this set, Fernando focused on natural paradises on the edge of disappearing. For instance, he painted scenes in the surroundings of Ream in Cambodia, which will soon be developed.
The painter also spent time on Golden Island (Chroy Changvar), where the Tonle Sap and the Mekong meet. A natural garden with very specific fauna and flora, Golden Island is now being sealed with cement to construct high buildings. The floating villages of the Cham minority are being destroyed and its people expelled from their ancestral habitat.
In Bangkok, Fernando worked on pieces related to ancestral Mexican beliefs linking humans, nature and death, as well as Bangkok wastelands covered by opulent jungle, soon to be constructed on.
Established as an independent artist, Fernando is reputed for live painting, capturing atmospheres, moods, people, gestures, colours and light. His lithographs, etchings, oil and watercolour paintings are famous for their flamboyant colours and their crude, engaged and realistic yet surreal subjects.
'Wooden Eden' will be displayed at Toot Yung Art Centre from Feb 8-March 5. The opening reception is on Feb 8 at 7pm. The art centre is located on Ekamai Soi 2 and is open Tuesday to Sunday from 11am to 8pm. Call 02-714-3766.
