History and imagination are a unique combination in "Blue Rhapsody", which is running at Number 1 Gallery, Silom 21, until Oct 29.
An oil on linen by Pat Yingcharoen.
This is the latest exhibition by Pat Yingcharoen, a special teacher and art lecturer at Silpakorn University, who covers historical, political, religious and mythical fields in his new series of paintings.
Influenced by the impact of exhaustion and illness, the artwork becomes evidence left from his healing process where his inner emotions led him to focus more on using a faint blue colour in each of the works.
Like his previous works, the paintings mainly portray historical images but they come with more typical details full of imagination.
The subject matters are rather vague and can be compared to a rhapsody or a piece of an ancient epic Greek poem that is typically filled with emotion, feelings, exuberant words and independent harmony rather than concerning the precise construction of rhymes.
The blue colour that has been chosen as the core of the exhibition has also spread its significance widely into many aspects -- history, politics and society.
It may simply remind us of a certain material, person or painting in the same way it can literally refer to sadness. In some cases, it gets viewers to reminisce about olden aristocrats or is simply related to certain powerful symbols in politics.
This is why the blue colour has been picked to deliver a message from the artist while portraying his different emotions -- sadness, calmness, hopelessness, anger and fury.
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