Pannaphan Yodmanee (1988 - )

Biographie

Pannaphan Yodmanee is a young Thai artist, born in 1988 in Nakhon Si Thammarat, southern Thailand. Her first art lesson took place at Wat Ka Pied temple. She studied traditional Thai art, as well as painting and restoring the walls of this Buddhist temple. Her talent developed until she was accepted at the Silpakorn Art University in Bangkok. There she discovered installation, performance and film, and opened up to the multiple creative possibilities offered by contemporary art.

The artist learned to combine her influences and experiences to develop a spellbinding art form, combining found objects, natural elements such as rocks and minerals, and painted elements. She fashions a unique aesthetic at the junction between East and West, creating work that transcends conventional artistic boundaries to offer a richly nuanced visual and emotional experience.

Combining traditional Thai art objects with contemporary elements, as well as drawings and sculptures, she creates artistic spaces that recall a spiritual world beyond a specific religion. Based in Bangkok, Yodmanee began exhibiting in the mid-2000s. In 2015, her work was featured in the Thailand Eye exhibition at London's Saatchi Gallery, then at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre.

In 2016, at the Singapore Biennale, she won the prestigious Benesse Prize, and Akiko Miki, president of the jury, said: "Her pictorial, sculptural and architectural work creates a unique and breathtaking landscape by blending microscopic and macroscopic visions with Buddhist cosmology, traditional and modern techniques, and natural and man-made materials. We look forward to seeing how her critical sensibility might bring profound insights into human civilization, natural conditions and spirituality to our time [...]". At the time, she was presenting her work Aftermath, an installation in the image of a field of architectural ruins.

In 2018, she took part in the Bangkok Biennale with her installation The Last Day. This monumental assemblage of stones and minerals, arranged in concentric circles, creates a complex, hypnotic pattern that evokes the end of the world and its regeneration. In 2019, his Quarterly Myth installation will be the star attraction at the Lyon Biennale. This invitation to meditate on time, memory and the survival of myths takes the form of two large gray concrete cylinders. Inside these imposing perpendicular structures, the artist has created frescoes and bas-reliefs, drawing inspiration from both Buddhist and Christian art.

Each time, the artist's work is enthusiastically received by critics and the public alike. Her unique aesthetic has brought her international recognition, and her work is now included in public and private collections around the world. These include the collections of the Singapore Art Museum, the Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane (Australia), the Yuz Museum in Shanghai (China) and the Beness Art Site in Naoshima (Japan).

For her first exhibition at Galerie Sarto, Pannaphan Yodmanee is developing a new aspect of her work, following in the footsteps of the fresco she created for the vaulted ceiling of the Soho House Bangkok atrium. Her canvases combine various techniques: linen, wood, cement... The artist paints, engraves, glues and depicts female bodies with a mythological allure. She takes up classic themes from Western art history: the Three Graces, Adam and Eve, the Flood... while blending them with Buddhist references. She breaks down bodies, fragmenting and reconstructing them in a delicate yet powerful harmony. We are proud and honored to present her work from January 13 to February 2, 2024 in the gallery at 3 rue de Solférino.

Selection d’oeuvres

Exhibitions at Galerie Sarto

Exhibition History

EDUCATION

B.F.A (Thai Arts), Faculty of Painting, Sculpture, and Graphical Arts, Silpakorn University

M.F.A (Thai Arts), Faculty of Painting, Sculpture, and Graphical Arts, Silpakorn University

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023 ‘‘Origine(s)’’, Galerie Sarto, Paris, France

2018 “RUIN”, ONEPROJECTS Gallery, Hong Kong, China

2015 “The Prophesy of Time”, Yavuz Gallery, Art Stage, Singapore

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022 Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

2021 “FALLING”, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

2019 “SEA – New Generation”, Tang Contemporary Art, Bangkok, Thailand

“Visible Soul”, Fukutake House, Benesse Art Site Naoshima, Naoshima, Japan

Lyon Biennale 2019, Fagor Factory, Lyon, France

2018 “Time Lapse”, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

“Nirvana: Tropical Rebirth”, Tang Contemporary Art, Bangkok, Thailand

The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT9), Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia

Bangkok Art Biennale, Bangkok, Thailand

“In the Kingdom, 140th Anniversary of B. Grimm”, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand

2017 Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

2016 “An Atlas of Mirrors, Singapore Biennale 2016”, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore

“#TIME”, La Lanta Fine Art, Bangkok, Thailand

“Thailand Eye”, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand

“Thailand Eye”, Saatchi Gallery London, UK

“Galapagosization + Plus”, Bangkok Sculpture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand

2015 “MYTH/HISTORY II: SHANGHAI GALAXY”, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China

2014 “Thai Charisma: Heritage+ Creativity Power”, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand

2012 “Siam App”, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand

2011 “Exhibition and Field Visit”, Youth Contemporary Arts Camp, Venice and Milan, Italy

The 33rd Bualuang Painting Exhibition, Bangkok, Thailand

The 57th National Arts Exhibition, Bangkok, Thailand

“The 23rd Toshiba Art Exhibition - Bring Good Thing to Life”, Bangkok, Thailand

2010 THE 29th UOB Painting of the Year, Singapore

The 27th Young Thai Artist Award, Thailand

“The 22nd Toshiba Art Exhibition - Bring Good Thing to Life”, Bangkok, Thailand

2009 “Imagination in Thai Arts”, Thai contemporary arts exhibition, Thailand

AWARDS

2017 The 1st Prize Benesse, Singapore Biennale 2016

2013 The 1st Prize, Bualuang Gold Medal, The 35th Thai Traditional Painting Exhibition, Bangkok Bank Foundation

2011 Excellence Award, Young Thai Artist Award

2010 Second Class Honour, The 28th Sil pa Bhirasri» Exhibition

Special Prize, Imagination for Thai Literacy by lntouch

The 3rd Prize, Bualuang Bronze Medal, The 34th Thai Traditional Painting, Bangkok Bank Foundation

The 2nd Prize, The 58th National Arts Competition, Krungthai Bank

2007 1st Prize, The 2nd Young Thai Artist Award

2006 3rd Prize, Student Exhibition of Nakomsrithammarat College of Fine Arts

Excellence Award, The 18th Arts for Better Life Competition

1st Prize, The 1st Young Thai Artist Award

2005 Excellence Award, 17th Toshiba Art Exhibition

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Singapore Art Museum, Singapore

Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia

Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China

Benesse Art Site, Naoshima, Japan

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