1980-0501-0-PC

Accession number

1980-0501-0-PC

Title

TH ข้าวสารเต็มยุ้งเป็นของใคร (khaosan tem yung pen khong khrai)

EN Whose polished rice fills the granaries?

Description

Formed by repeated instances of the phrase "polished rice" (ข้าวสาร), the concrete poem depicts a house-shaped structure, representing a granary.

Categories

Concrete poetry (บทกวีรูปธรรม)

Black and white

Inscriptions

Titled "ข้าวสารเต็มยุ้งเป็นของใคร", signed, and dated "1980" at the top right corner of the work. Numbered "0256" on the reverse.

Year

1980

Date

Unknown

Dimensions

38.6 x 26.5

Dimensions with frame

N/A

Condition

Foxing. Creases at the corners and along the left, right, and bottom edges. Tears along the bottom edge. Insect droppings. Dirt. Small brown paper triangles adhered to the corners on the back of the work.

Medium

Felt-tip pen on glossy paper

Current location

Collection of The Tang Chang Private Museum

All known reproductions.

Tang Chang: Abstract Paintings - Concrete Poetry. (Nakhon Pathom: The Tang Chang Private Museum, 2013), 82.
จ่าง แซ่ตั้ง: จิตรกรรมนามธรรม บทกวีรูปธรรม. (นครปฐม: พิพิธภัณฑ์ จ่าง แซ่ตั้ง, 2556), 82.
[Caption: ข้าวสารเต็มยุ้งเป็นของใคร / Whose granary full of rice is it? / 1980]

Exhibition history.

Tang Chang: Abstract Paintings–Concrete Poetry [จ่าง แซ่ตั้ง: จิตรกรรมนามธรรม บทกวีรูปธรรม]. Art Gallery G23, Srinakharinwirot University, Bangkok, Thailand. February 15–April 28, 2013.

"Misfits": Pages from a loose-leaf modernity. Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany. April 21–July 3, 2017.