RIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA

MURDER AND MAYHEM also continuesTiravanija’s dialogue with artist Nico Dockx from their exhibition atVer Gallery in Bangkok with a work entitled erasing 22’09” (unfinished).Created during the height of the unrest in Bangkok, erasing 22’09”(unfinished) focused on the organic nature of a shifting society andquestions art presentation as a static and unalterable configuration in atime of great change. The constant relationship between creation anderasure is expressed through drawings and a vinyl recording.

Inthis exhibition, erasing22’09” (unfinished) with untitled (blueprintdemonstrations) will create a powerful relation between foundation anddestruction. History keeps repeating itself.

Born in 1961,Tiravanija is the winner of the 2010 Absolut Art Award and the 2005 HugoBoss Prize awarded by the Guggenheim Museum. Tiravanija was alsoawarded the Benesse by the Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum in Japan andthe Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Lucelia Artist Award. He recentlyhad a retrospective exhibition at the Kunsthalle Bielefeld along withprevious retrospective exhibition at the Museum Bojmans Van Beuningen inRotterdam that then was presented in Paris and London. Tiravanija is onthe faculty of the School of Visual Arts at Columbia University, and isa founding member and curator of Utopia Station, a collective projectof artists, art historians, and curators. Tiravanija is also Presidentof an educational-ecological project known as The Land Foundation,located in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and is part of a collective alternativespace called VER located in Bangkok— where he maintains his primaryresidence and studio.