Thai Ho Pham manages to mix old painterly traditions with new media and give them a new value.
I am pleased to invite you to the first solo show of Thai Ho Pham – “The Great Awakening”, at Galerie Anna25. The exhibition will open on February 28th with a 25h vernissage. Starting time 9 am.
Vietnamese-born artist Thai Ho Pham presents works from his “Cycle of Banality” series. In it, he works with the everyday realities of life, which he transforms into art. Thematically, Thai Ho Pham focuses on very banal things: a beauty treatment, dreams, a shopping trip, or even going to the toilet (see pause for thought). Alienated from everyday life and mixed with motifs from the world of art and tattoos, the works, whether paintings or installations, take on a new level of association.
However, unlike the ready-made, Thai Ho Pham is inspired by the new media of our time. The artist enhances a spontaneously taken cell phone photo. Printed on a canvas, he works on it using an oil mixing technique. On the one hand, it becomes unclear to the viewer what is print and what is painting. The artist manages to merge different worlds of craftsmanship. On the other hand, he breaks with the tradition of the white canvas. An artist does not need to create a work of art from something empty, but can also create a new and powerful work from something that already exists.