Surasi kusolwong biography examples
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Surasi Kusolwong
Surasi Kusolwong
17 January – 21 March 2004
Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art
asverksgatan 22
Box 4097
203 12 Malmo, Sweden
Phone +46 (0) 40 12 17 16
Fax +46 (0) 40 30 45 61
info@rooseum.se
www.rooseum.se
image: Surasi Kusolwong: My Mother with her Umbrella (Ayutthaya), 1996, C-print.
Surasi Kusolwong
No Conclusion (Time Is The Answer)
Opening 17 January 2004, 7 – 9pm, artists talk 6pm
Rooseum is delighted to have the opportunity to present Surasi Kusolwong’s first one-person show in Europe, No Conclusion (Time Is The Answer). Born and living in Thailand, Kusolwong is one of the leading artists to emerge from the extension of the contemporary art field beyond its Western boundaries over the last 10 years. His work draws on Thai and Western art traditions as well as recent cultural and social changes in both situations.
For this first major solo-exhibition, Kusolwong will show new and existing works in a set up that partly suggests an indoor city. The exhibition includes a new version of his famous Emotional Machine, a VW Beetle turned upside down and converted into a swing that visitors can use. He will also stage a new 10 SEK market full of plastic Thai products that will be sold during the opening as ‘a retail perf
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Surasi as disinclined champion
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