The essence of impermanence
di // pubblicato il 10 Ottobre, 2011
“If human life is built from threads weaving together just like a doll, it must be so hurt and sad to see the threads gradually slipping off. Parts of it start to fall apart from the main structure. The moment must be so hard especially if it happens to our life, a life that falls apart and becomes something menaningless. At that very moment, the feeling of existence might be so worthless and emptyI”.
This is Uttaporn Nimmalaikaew’s artistic essence. We have to concentrate on his name pronunciation as much as to enjoy his pieces of work dimension.
His creative parabola starts from a canvas backdrop that is set inside a deep casement, and then lightly veiled by multiple layers of thread and netting. The paint doesn’t conquer just the background but run over onto the top layer just to create shimmering portraits and sleazy visions.
Therefore every single creation is an explorative way towards the Buddhist topic of Impermanence: nothing lasts forever, so how is possible that something lasts after the end? Everything flows away...Affections, dreams, beliefs and the existence itself based on them can hold nothing, except of fragile threads which tries to run away from imposed boundaries.
They lazily carry the human being terminal step, bat with the death comes a rebirth able to rewind the life’s film.
One of the biggest quality of these beautiful works is the ability to disrupt the experience of seeing, because the classical and immediate observers fruition falls in the circle of ambiguous perceptions: the viewer frontally sees the composition defined against a blank space, while moving sideways the figures throw themselves out, showing their evident volumes born from the relatioship between light, color and multilayered fabric.
The spread of million threads conveys a day-fly sketchiness sensation immediately crossed by the awareness being in front of a complete art works full of small details.
Finally, accord to Buddha teachings karma (considered as the principle of chaining whereby every action causes a reaction, binding human beings to samsara also known as death and rebirth cycle) creates an endless life; the old, present and future world all belong to universe and nobody knows how many times we should join or not..
For Alice the mirror was a sort of door opens to a parallel universe where everything seemed so real...Uttaporn uses it just to twist perceptions and throw the observers in a world with the same features but with a different identity.
The undefined always creates fear; if it is something real or not doesn’t matter, because the human weakness everyday reminds us the universal law misery that can do nothing to stop their coming.
From 31st October to 4th december 2011, Uttaporn Nimmalaikaew puts up in the Ardel gallery of Modern Art (Thailand) the inescapable complexity of life with artworks part of a meta-dimension in which time, space and spirit merged together in a cohesive and impermanent “whole”.