SAVE THAI BUFFALO AND NEW MOSAICS SERIES
AN EXHIBITION BY MAITREE SIRIBOON
JULY 16 – AUG 15, 2016
YENAKART VILLA, BANGKOK
For celebrating his first year of existence, YenakArt Villa is presenting the full series of 10 photographs from the series Save Thai Buffalo by Maitree Siriboon. The series is featuring the albino buffalo Maitree Siriboon is raising in his home-town, painted with the natural colors used in India for the sacred cows, underlining, with a strong sense of humor, that the buffalo is playing a new “decorative” role in contemporary Thailand.
This series is paying tribute to the buffalo, which helped build Thailand into a rice-farming nation, and therefore into the modern nation it is today. But now, regrets Maitree, you hardly see buffaloes working in rice fields. On each photo, the painting on the buffalo is inspired by a famous modern artwork or artist that Maitree saw when visiting western museums expressing the “cultural shock” he had when he came back to his village after his first long trip to Europe. In addition to the series of Save THAI Buffalo photos, Maitree Siriboon will exhibit his seven newest mosaic artworks.