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How wondrous art is sometimes inspired by brutality
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published : 25 Jan 2021 at 04:30 Cocaine Hurricane, a relief linocut by Raj Bunnag. photo courtesy of SAC Gallery
SAC Gallery is holding Fantastical Manifestations to reflect the failures, fallacies, and players in the war on drugs from tomorrow to March 21.
This is the first exhibition in Thailand by Thai-American artist Raj Bunnag who uses the process of relief printmaking to create exceptionally detailed, large-scale prints that capture the unfocused and ultimately destructive energy of governmental response to illegal narcotics in the war on drugs.
His works are influenced by the grotesque and wondrous images of historical print works such as The Miseries And Misfortunes Of War (1633) by French printmaker Jacques Callot and The Disasters Of War (1810-1820) by Spanish printmaker Francisco Goya.
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Here, the artist and the art historian offer a fascinating conversation, which defines sculpture as widely as possible (a prehistoric hand axe and Silbury Hill, for example) and illustrates a varied and inspiring analysis with a generous, seductive selection of plates. They consider fluid forms such as ritual and dance, and the whole journey from past to present leads you to look at the familiar anew. Brilliant.
PICASSO AND MAYA
by Diana Widmaier-Picasso and Carmen Gimenez (Rizzoli £155)
This handsome book celebrating an unusual, lavish Paris exhibition devoted to Picasso’s relationship with his elder daughter Maya is a work of art in itself. The artist fell in love with Maya’s mother, Marie-Therese Walter (1909 to 1977), when she was only 17 and he was a 45-year-old married man.