1978-0659-0-PC

Accession number

1978-0659-0-PC

Title

TH รัฐบาลก็เหมือนบุหรี่ที่ถูกสูบ (ratthaban ko muean buri thi thuk sup)

EN The government is like a cigarette being smoked

Description

A simplified image of trails of smoke emanating from a cigarette formed by repeated instances of the words "smoke" (ควัญ [ควัน]) and "government" (รัฐบาล) respectively.

Categories

Concrete poetry (บทกวีรูปธรรม)

Black and white

Inscriptions

Titled "รัฐบาลก็เหมือนบุหรี่ที่ถูกสูบ" next to the image. Signed and dated "1978" on the reverse. The numeral "7" appears to have been written over another numeral. "9" written on the plastic covering.

Year

1978

Date

Unknown

Dimensions

14.5 x 15.5

Dimensions with frame

N/A

Condition

Mild foxing. Minor insect droppings. A slight dent.

Medium

Felt-tip pen on paper

Current location

Collection of The Tang Chang Private Museum

Bibliography of printed matter

Yin Ker, “An Essay on Non-Forms: Tang Chang (1934–1990), a Modern Painter of Literati Aspirations from Bangkok,” in Tang Chang (1934–1990): Non-Forms (Bangkok: The Tang Chang Private Museum), 27, 29, 31.

All known reproductions.

Yin Ker and Marcella Lista, Tang Chang (1934-1990): Non-Forms. (Bangkok: The Tang Chang Private Museum, 2023), 57, 66b.

Exhibition history.

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

Tang Chang (1934–1990): Non-Forms. Centre Pompidou, Paris, France. October 20, 2023–April 8, 2024.

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

Annotations for selected works.

Semi-gloss. Could be considered card rather than paper.