Artist Morrakot Naksin ศิลปิน มรกต นาคสินธุ์

CONCEPT

Being inspired by inner mental pressure I like to express about the responsive conditions in the daily life of human being. These conditions exists in human mind are affected by both impulses and environment.

As I use to notice peoples behavior in contemporary society suffering and happiness are obvious to my felling. The suffering and sorrows make people’s state of mind. For example people who are not successful bearing sorrow in their mind, some one who bears unhappiness or people who has believe or people who trying hard to get something but becomes failure and people who have to work hard for the family because the family members are depending on him; these people are subject of my thought and work. The idea inspires my work, that I believe about the power of “State of mind” will stay every people’s mind. And also believe if people want to develop their situation from sadness to happiness the State of mind will help them to find the dynamic power of happiness.

And I try to preserve this “State of mind” as a source of work and inspiration of people to promote in our values and culture. I think this is a kind of spirit that everyone need in life.

Lonely and anxious unhappy people go to temple, go to monk or pray to god or get drunk out of their emotion. Why they do so? They want to escape from the situation. They need the spirit to get free from pains and sufferings of life. And there are people who are poor and powerless are leading a kind of life, is a sort of dead life. But they have some color in life except black and white, like golden red and brown. They have their state of mind to trust and believe.

My study focuses on metal state of man that is exposed in the form of posture and gestures. So, my figures are the portrait of minds. They sit close to each other but never look at each other, or sit alone in the space on a clear or light background. Those figures have no details on face, I always avoid facial expression. To my believe those expression are not representing words of soul, as I believe the truth comes from soul. To my thought face is like a mask that we wear in everyday life. Why my figures are sitting? When I study the ancient Thai culture and tradition as a student of fine arts I found differences in the manner and gesture of Thai female. I choose the style of sitting and conversation of Thai women in the past and make it a harmonious composition.

Religious felling is important in my work. I always use nature of religious felling in white, black, golden, red and brown colors. Being a sculptor and not want to concentrate on so many details, I just want to present the power of shape and smooth out line. Figures have been drawn from three-dimensional perspective and bold outlines express the character and felling. It derived from my life landscape. And also my living experience in Europe keeps an impact on my work. Especially in my young age I used to live in countryside, a life close to nature and landscape, huge rice fields where I saw hard working poor people. So, their hands and legs are exaggerated to evoke the hardship their manual labor. Texture and forms follows the sweating people’s soul. Circle on the top of head becomes as the spirit of their soul. Sometimes it may like hat for man or scarf for women. My struggle is to always develop this spirit and proof it on my work.

So my work reflects dream or it may seems like Dream Painting. This is a kind of emotionalist thought or works whatever any one can say. Dream Painting about everyday life emotion of people, not heavenly felling.





BIOGRAPHY

Mobile 08-1928-3433
E-Mail morrakot_naksin@yahoo.com
1966 Born in Bangkok, Thailand.
1987- 1993 Bachelor Degree of Fine Arts, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai.
1994 Exchange Project Painting at the Curtin University of Technology, School of Art, Perth, Australia.
1996- 1998 Student Sculpture at Sint- Lucas Accademia, Ghent, Belgium.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2006 FAITH, Amari Watergate Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand.
2006 FAITH, Sunjin Galleries (S)Pteltd, Singapore.
2004 Pakistan, Lahore (will be organize in October)
2003 INVE Technologies, Dendermonde, Belgium.
2002 Westfries Museum, Hoorn, the Netherlands.
2001 Centrumvoor, Intercultureel Management, Mechelen, Belgium.
1999 “De Lanchende Monnik” Drongen / Ghent, Belgium.
1998 “Bird”, Zeedijk, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
1996 Het Waterschapshuis, Memdemblik, the Netherlands.
Stadsfeesstzaal Antwerpen Belgium.
Ham- Mechelen, Belgium.



GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007 The Step of Spirit, 4th floor Exhibition Hall River City Shoping Complex, Bangkok.
2005 Galeria de Arte Ryoichi Jinnai, The Lima, Peru.
2004 Contemporary Thai- Dutch Art Exibition, The Queen’s Gallery Bangkok.
2001 Contemporary Thai- Belgium Art Exibition, The National Museum, Bangkok.
Art Museum, Chiang Mai.
Shilpa Bhirasri Memorial Gallery, Bangkok.
1999 Gallery De Impasse, Brussels, Belgium.
1998 Les Enfants du Mekong, Cultureel Centrum Ukkel/ Brussel, Belgium.
Westfries Museum, Hoorn, the Netherlands.
1997 Snit-Lucas Accademia, Ghent, Belgium.
De Brouewrij, Museum Koekelare, Belgium.
1996 De Koning van Siam, Western Museum, Hoorn, The Netherlands.

Galeria de Arte Ryoichi Jinnai, The Lima, Peru.

Morrakot Naksin, 2005 Galeria de Arte Ryoichi Jinnai, The Lima, Peru.
Morrakot Naksin, 2005 Galeria de Arte Ryoichi Jinnai, The Lima, Peru.
Morrakot Naksin, 2005 Galeria de Arte Ryoichi Jinnai, The Lima, Peru.


Morrakot Naksin, 2005 Galeria de Arte Ryoichi Jinnai, The Lima, Peru.
Morrakot Naksin, 2005 Galeria de Arte Ryoichi Jinnai, The Lima, Peru.

Contemporary Thai- Dutch Art Exibition at The Queen’s Gallery Bangkok.

Morrakot Naksin, 2004 Contemporary Thai- Dutch Art Exibition, The Queen’s Gallery Bangkok.
Morrakot Naksin, 2004 Contemporary Thai- Dutch Art Exibition, The Queen’s Gallery Bangkok.
Morrakot Naksin, 2004 Contemporary Thai- Dutch Art Exibition, The Queen’s Gallery Bangkok.


Morrakot Naksin, 2004 Contemporary Thai- Dutch Art Exibition, The Queen’s Gallery Bangkok.
Morrakot Naksin, 2004 Contemporary Thai- Dutch Art Exibition, The Queen’s Gallery Bangkok.

Contemporary Thai- Belgium Art Exibition
at The National Museum, Bangkok.
at Art Museum, Chiang Mai.
at Shilpa Bhirasri Memorial Gallery, Bangkok.

Morrakot Naksin, 2001 Contemporary Thai- Belgium Art Exibition
Morrakot Naksin, 2001 Contemporary Thai- Belgium Art Exibition
Morrakot Naksin, 2001 Contemporary Thai- Belgium Art Exibition


Morrakot Naksin, 2001 Contemporary Thai- Belgium Art Exibition
Morrakot Naksin, 2001 Contemporary Thai- Belgium Art Exibition


Rama IX Collection

Gift from artist


PORTFOLIO

Painting