Art can be anything

Times passes, tastes change, and art responds to both. The distinction between ‘high art’ and ‘popular art’ is less important in the current market where art is becoming increasingly important in people’s lives.

Artists collaborate with luxury brands one moment and create street art the next, using social media as a means of promoting both. Since the pop art movement in the mid-20th century, art has found its way into shops as merchandise and memorabilia.

Dokall Jaitang, the owner of the gallery, TRENDY, has traded in this form of art for 20 years, since recognising the increased toy production stimulated by the shift of manufacturing from the West to Asia. A convergence of pop and street art, comic and television hero characters, fashion and toys.

Visit TRENDY in RCB Artery and you will find contemporary art in all its forms: sculpture, memorabilia, toys, painting and prints of the most popular artists and designers from in Thailand and around the world.

Works of international artists include British graffiti artist, Banksy, American artists Jeff Koons, famous for his ‘Balloon Dog’, and Keith Haring. The gallery also carries works of renowned Japanese artists, Yoshitomo Nara, known for his smiling white puppy dog with a bright red nose and sleepy eyes, and Takashi Murakami who has been called as the father of Japanese pop art and the creator of Murakami flower.

There are also works from Thai artists: Alex Face, best-known for his three-eyed baby bunny, Wisut Ponnimit, the Thai cartoonist who created the cartoon character, Mamuang, and Yuree Kensaku, whose sculpture, Broken Victoria, 2020 has been exhibited in Bangkok Art Biennial 2020 and now displayed at TRENDY.

Still to come, an exhibition of TRENDY’s most famous artists.

TRENDY, room 184, 1st floor, River City Bangkok
Open Everyday from 11 a.m. to 7.30 p.m.
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