1979-0111-0-PC

Accession number

1979-0111-0-PC

Title

TH คนต่อต้านเผด็จการ (khon totan phadetkan)

EN People resisting the dictatorship

Description

Formed by repeated instances of the verb "to resist" (ต่อต้าน) surrounding a single instance of the word "dictatorship" (เผด็จการ), the concrete poem depicts, in three-quarter profile, a human face. The figure appears to be wearing an angry expression, with his or her mouth opened. In red.

Categories

Concrete poetry (บทกวีรูปธรรม)

Colour

Inscriptions

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

Year

1979

Date

Unknown

Dimensions

23.4 x 23.4

Dimensions with frame

N/A

Condition

Foxing (in patches). Brown paper triangles adhered to the reverse.

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), 99.
จ่าง แซ่ตั้ง: จิตรกรรมนามธรรม บทกวีรูปธรรม. (นครปฐม: พิพิธภัณฑ์ จ่าง แซ่ตั้ง, 2556), 99.
[Caption: คนต่อต้านเผด็จการ / People resisting Dictator / 1979]

Exhibition history.

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