Variety Surreal: Fashion Interpreted onto Canvas
A debut solo exhibition by Tanya Tansaringkan, a fashion designer with 10 years of experience who has discovered a new passion in painting. This exhibition will inspire you to step out of your everyday reality and enter her surreal and spectacular universe.
Tanya Tansaringkan began her journey into the world of painting in 2020 when Covid-19 had a major impact on her life like many others. Instead of working with her team, Tanya was obliged to stay at her studio alone. However, that wasn’t going to stop her from being creative. Tanya looked for new ways to express herself and discovered that painting was her new passion and a new avenue for her to transform her thoughts and ideas.
Fashion, creativity, and surrealism were all influences in the creation of Variety Surreal: Fashion Interpreted onto Canvas exhibition and reflect on her artworks. The Beauty Regents portrays Gabrielle Bonheur “Coco” Chanel, the world-famous French fashion designer, encountering Venus, a goddess in Roman mythologies. Both were the symbol of beauty from different eras. The Element Wind features a mysterious lady dressed in a ruffle, an antique style of apparel that dates back to the mid-15th century. Tanya suggests that women’s beauty is illusory and impenetrable, much like the wind.
To create the surrealist vibe, Tanya also made use of contrasts between people and their relationships with objects or animals. The Ambitious Queen depicts a portrait of a queen in Tanya’s imagination looking bravely at the audience. Her hands are clutching the gigantic octopus, which appears to be uncontrollable, but the queen can wield it gracefully. This symbolizes the uphill struggle faced by powerful individuals. The Revolution depicts a woman with a red rhinoceros demonstrating the distinction between two species. The rhinoceros appears to be rough, while the woman appears to be delicate, however the two coexist together. The Urbanist Reflection shows the illusional metropolis as a highrise filled with a little bird. Tanya points out that nature is actually right in front of us, yet it is often missed.
Tanya hopes her debut solo exhibition will ignite your imagination. There are no rules in this universe. Please make yourself at ease, leave your logic behind and let your mind wander into her world.
About the Artist
Tanya Tansaringkan received her bachelor’s degree from the London College of Fashion and then pursued her master’s degree at the Istituto Marangoni (Milan College at London campus). After her graduation, she interned on a project co-designing for Mulberry and Agent Provocateur, two British fashion brands. Soon after, she began her career as a fashion designer and ran her own fashion brands for several years. She was also a Fashion Lecturer at Bangkok University.
Venue: room 249 – 250, 2nd floor, River City Bangkok
Free Admission
*River City Bangkok is open daily from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. with strict preventive measures against Covid-19 and limitation of visitors inside all exhibitions.
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