Museum Voorlinden connects people, art, nature and architecture.
Mission
Museum Voorlinden collects, presents, keeps, manages, conserves, restores and publishes modern and contemporary art, both on its own premises and elsewhere. At museum Voorlinden, modern and contemporary art take on new meaning for a broad-based national and international audience. The museum envisages to be a meeting place where people like to sojourn. Voorlinden wants to be an oasis of tranquility in the hectic city where people can go marvel and be surprised. The total experience of art, nature and architecture is key in the way of presenting and approaching visitors.
Chavalit Soemprungsuk at 80+
Janine Yasovant. writer
After an exhibition in Amsterdam, Chavalit Sermprungsuk,Thai National Artist in Visual Arts (Painting, 2014), came back to Thailand again with new exhibitions: 80+ Art Festival Thailand exhibitions in 6 locations: Silpa Bhirasri‘S House, Ratchadamnoen Contemporary Art Center, Lhong 1919. Baramee Of Art, Bangkok Art And Culture Centre ( Bacc), Numthong Art Space, from November 2019-February 2020
Chavalit Soemprungsuk was born in 1939. He was educated at the primary and secondary school of Vajiravudh College, an all-boys boarding school in Bangkok. After that he went to study at the College of Fine Arts and then at the Faculty of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Arts University of the Arts, Silpakorn University.
Chavalit Soemprungsuk was in one of the last groups of students who had the opportunity to study with Silpa Bhirasri before he passed away. After graduating from Silpakorn University, he received a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture of the Netherlands to study at the Rijkskademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. After he graduated, he became a Sponsored Artist of the Netherlands government, receiving financial patronage and permanent residence.
He married a Thai woman, Phanee Meethongkum, who came to study in the Netherlands after she graduated from Silpakorn University.
He began his career with realism artworks, which later developed into abstraction. Over the past six decades, he has been recognized as one of the key figures in Thai abstract and non-objective art. During a recent solo exhibition In Amsterdam with Chavalit Soemprungsuk at Ratchadamnoen Contemporary Art Center, he decided to donate over 4,000 items of his possessions, including his art collection, books, furniture, personal belongings, and the structure of his Amsterdam apartment to the Thai government, with the request that the collection be accessible to the public, in order to benefit the younger generations of Thai artists.
After giving up his material properties in preparation for the last stage of his life, Chavalit Soemprungsuk, at the age of 70, shifted his artistic medium from large-scale sculptures and paintings to digital computer prints. During 2013–2019, he developed an immense body of digital works, as well as experimenting with one-off edition digital inkjet prints in his Amsterdam atelier.
“Infinity Mirror Room” by Yayoi Kusama
Open Ended
The sculpture Open Ended by the American artist Richard Serra weighs almost 216 tonnes. The corten steel work is 4 metres high, 18 metres long and 7 metres wide. This is a piece full of contrasts: both heavy and elegant, industrial and organic, stately and playful, convex and concave. Six vaulted steel plates moulded together form a maze. Open Ended is a work best experienced by walking through it.
Here are a few pictures of the abstract exhibition as well as some favorites from the permanent work’s highlights.
Suchai Pornsirikul
Swimming Pool
Leandro Erlich designed his Swimming Pool especially for Voorlinden. He gave his work all the characteristics of a real swimming pool, including the recognizable pool blue on the walls, the typical lamps and even a real stairway through which you seem to be able to descend. And yet as a visitor you can walk on the bottom without getting wet. Leandro frequently plays with the eye. He transforms everyday spaces into absurd situations, to creating an experience that makes the viewer think about the reality around him. The work only really functions in its use by the public. Without people, according to the artist, the work is not complete.
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