Kamin LERTCHAIPRASERT
Thailand b.1964
Problem - Wisdom 1993-95
Papier mâché (from recycled Thai newspapers)
366 pieces: average height 14cm (each); 1400 x 200cm (installed, variable) 1996.214.1-366
Purchased 1996. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation
Essay by Dionissia Giakoumi (Assistant Curator, International Art) and Suhanya Raffel
(Assistant Curator, Contemporary Asian Art), Queensland Art Gallery
Photography by Kamin Lertchaiprasert and Ray Fulton
Edited by Jennifer Webb
Web Project members:
Matthew Kassey
Bronwyn Mahoney
Cathy Pemble-Smith
Web design by The Lab Development Group,
Brisbane
Problem - Wisdom was first exhibited in Australia during the Second Asia-Pacific
Triennial of Contemporary Art, at the Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, in 1996. This web
page is produced in association with the installation 'Problem - Wisdom', curated
by Dionissia Giakoumi and Suhanya Raffel, Queensland Art Gallery, 26 September - 29
November 1998.
The English translation and interpretation of Problem - Wisdom is based on
research undertaken by Dionissia Giakoumi in collaboration with Kamin Lertchaiprasert and
Robyn Ziebell. Thai Language Services provided assistance with the translation of specific
inscriptions, and the typesetting of the Thai language inscriptions.
Further reading
Atimana, Uthit. Normal & Nature by Kamin Lertchaiprasert [exhibition
catalogue]. Tadu Contemporary Art, Bangkok, 1997.
Lertchaiprasert, Kamin. Niras Thailand [exhibition catalogue]. The Art Gallery of
the Faculty of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Arts, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, 1992.
Lertchaiprasert, Kamin. ABC [exhibition catalogue]. British Council, Bangkok, 1995.
Poshyananda, Apinan. Modern Art in Thailand. Oxford University Press, 1992.
Rodboon, Somporn. 'Kamin Lertchaiprasert'. The Second Asia-Pacific Triennial of
Contemporary Art [exhibition catalogue]. Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 1996, p.
88.
