Lot 58: SAVANHDARY VONGPOOTHORN (B. 1971)

Vikasati
signed, dated and titled 'Savanhdary Vongpoothorn' (lower left) and 'Vikasati 1996' (lower right); signed, dated and titled 'Savanhdary Vongpoothorn/Vikasati 1996' and further titled and dated on gallery label (on the reverse)
acrylic on paper
53 x 53 cm

Campbelltown, Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, Holy Threads Lao Tradition and Inspiration, 19 September - 23 October 1998

King Street Gallery, Newtown
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1996

"The process of piercing the paper is obsessive and labour-intensive, often taking Vongpoothorn many weeks to complete a single work. The process may be likened to the practise of meditation...

A 1996 work titled Vikasati, for instance, roughly translates as "to illuminate, expand or open wide". This work consists of a large square, painted a deep burgundy, pierced from the back to form an elaborate geometric pattern that weaves its way across the surface of the paper in a labyrinthe maze. Each of the holes appears to symbolise a day or even a moment of experience, woven together (perhaps as an act of remembering?) to create the impression of a unified narrative or journey". (B Genocchio, Holy Threads Lao Tradition and Inspiration, Campbelltown, 1998, p. 16)


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