Have anyone heard about Mr. Sopheap Pich?
He is the world famous Khmer artist, and I have never met any Khmer person who knows about Sopheap Pich yet since I heard about him from a foreigner art writer. Why? ･:*+.\(( °ω° ))/.:+
Me “have you heard about Sopheap Pich?”
My friend A “It’s very common name.”
My friend B “What’s the job?”
Me “yyyyeeeeeeee ･:*+.\(( ＞ω＜ ))/.:+”
Every Khmer people should look at his art pieces, you are luck that you are in Cambodia and some of his works are in cambodia, too. I think we can see his work at Phnom Penh airport. (I think I saw… ) Wel, where are other pieces of his artwork?
Buddha, 2009
Rattan, wire, dye
220 x 70 x 110 cm
Buddha 2, 2009
Rattan, wire, dye
100 x 29 x 9’’
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY.
Look at the buddha… Its casting shadows behind the sculpture are so beautiful, too. It’s like nimbus of Buddha? I like the color which remind me about Eva Hesse, who was also a famous artist in the US.
Mr. Pich says in his website (http://sopheap-pich.com/):
People often associate my practice with memories of the Khmer Rouge, but I make works that relate to many things both remembered and unknown. My sculptures resist easy categorizations and expectations. For me, they are more about the slow labor of making something from nothing, a connection to natural materials.
I like to think that my works resonate with my history and surroundings, and reflect the best of both my abilities as well as limitations.
And for the girls who don’t get art… OK, he did show in Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Which is this.
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See, how he is celebrated Cambodian artist where other Cambodian people don’t really know?
