1979-0108-0-PC

Accession number

1979-0108-0-PC

Title

TH คนถูกคนขัง (khon thuk khon khang)

EN Humans imprisoned by humans

Description

The poem consists of a single instance of the word "human" (คน) positioned within a grille formed by repeated instances of the same word, representing a person imprisoned by other people.

Categories

Concrete poetry (บทกวีรูปธรรม)

Colour

Inscriptions

Titled "คนถูกคนขัง", signed, and dated "1979".

Year

1979

Date

Unknown

Dimensions

23.3 x 23.4

Dimensions with frame

N/A

Condition

Foxing. Very slight creases at the top left, top right, and bottom right corners. Insect droppings. Brown paper triangles adhered to the corners on the back of the work. Tide lines.

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), 77.
จ่าง แซ่ตั้ง: จิตรกรรมนามธรรม บทกวีรูปธรรม. (นครปฐม: พิพิธภัณฑ์ จ่าง แซ่ตั้ง, 2556), 77.
[Caption: คนถูกคนขัง / Person confined by Persons / 1979]

David Teh, ed., “Misfits”: Pages from a loose-leaf modernity (Berlin: Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 2017), 58.
[Caption:
Tang Chang, คนถูกคนขัง
(Person confined by people), 1979.
Marker on paper, 23.4 x 23.4 cm.
Legend: คน = people]

Exhibition history.

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

Social Factory: 10th Shanghai Biennale. Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China. November 23, 2014–March 31, 2015.

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