A SITE SPECIFIC EXHIBITION BY PARAMODEL
THONGLOR ART SPACE, BANGKOK
NOV 26 – DEC 25, 2016
The Japan Foundation, Bangkok and Thonglor Art Space proudly present a site-specific art exhibition “the play: space drawing” by the renowned Japanese artist collective; Paramodel.
Paramodel is an art collective that has been run by Yasuhiko Hayashi (b. 1971) and Yusuke Nakano (b. 1976) since 2001. Their title is essentially a manifesto in sum – fusing the words Paradise, Paradox and Model. In addition, it plays upon the Japanese word Puramoderu (toy plastic dioramas). They produce photography, sculpture, painting and video, much of which is born out of large-scale installations that engage with different kinds of spaces and deal with the various polarities that exist in everyday life.
The artists often use familiar toys like blue plastic rails, miniature cars and plastic models as materials, as well as motifs, in order to create blueprints of paradise whilst underscoring life’s paradoxes, which can be seen in parallel as three dimensional graffiti, diorama, drawing, mural or landscape. This time, one of the Paramodel members, Yasuhiko Hayashi, will stay in Bangkok for one month to draw the three-dimensional spaces of Thonglor Art Space with gigantic numbers of ready-made industrial pipes and “plarails” [blue plastic rails]. Their signature materials – pipes and plarails – will bring you a magnificent visual impact, which also invites you toward rejoice of imagination. It might look like a construction-site, but also paradoxically like a paradise, or like a visualization of multi-layered network society.
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