Kamin lertchaiprasert biography of michael jackson

Looking back on the artist’s life’s work which has come to draw from Buddhism, quantum mechanics, environmentalism and Asian arts & crafts

Writing in 1997, Uthit Atimana, then director of Chiang Mai University Art Museum, had this to say about Kamin Lertchaiprasert after the latter had returned home following studies at the Art Students League of New York during the early 1990s: ‘It seemed that Kamin had thrown away the kind of art that conveyed the energy of emotions, and he started to emphasise conceptual-based art works, inspired by his readings and his rationality.

In this kind of art, the concept comes before the emotions. [But] Kamin still held on to his everlasting characteristic, namely “directness”.’

It’s a narrative that is still writ large at the Chiang Mai-based artist’s own rustic gallery – the public-facing ‘office’ of what Lertchaiprasert calls his ‘31st Century Museum of Contemporary Spirit’.

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