Montri Toemsombat



montri @ Venice biennale 2003
montri @ Venice biennale 2003
Montri Toemsombat was born in 1975, he graduated at Chualongkorn University. He is one of few artists to overtly coalesce the realms of Art and Fashion. His work aims at blurring distinctions between his "costumes" as catwalk grab and individual art objects. Montri's multidisciplinary art explores the fundamental contradiction between rural life and rampant consumerism in Exhibitions such as:


Art events

2004:
* "Living Art; Regional Artists Respond to HIV/ AIDS" Site Specificinstallation and meditation Workshop, the Queen's gallery, Bangkok,Thailand.
* "Enchante" Site Specific Installation/VDO /Performance/ Interactive, Alliance Française. Bangkok, Thailand.

2005:
* "New Fashion Order; Dissolution" Site Specific Installation/ Performance, RMIT Project Space, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.

2006:
* "Inhale-Exhale" Performance/ VDO Installation, ARSO6, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland.
* "Smile Gatherers" Performance/ Interactive, Tout à Fait Thai Festival, Paris, France.

2007:
* "Nirvana / Paradise, Reality / Illusion" Performances on elevated grounds; France, Thailand, Belgium


Exhibitions

2007
* "Nirvana / Paradise, Reality / Illusion" at Kathmandu gallery, Bangkok

2008
\"Nirvana / Paradise, Reality / Illusion\" at GMT+7 art&design gallery, Brussels

Wednesday December 5, 2007
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