YESTERTODAYMORROW

People would think we are mightier than anything else in the world, despite being under an overbearing control of time. During the course of time, we experience wide-ranging emotions: happiness, misery, and reality itself. Gongkan treats his own time as if it were a river flowing one direction.

Gongkan (Kantapon Metheekul) graduated from the school of arts at  Silpakorn University in Bangkok. Shortly thereafter, he moved to New York where he spent three years working in creative departments of advertising agencies. In his spare time, he created street art and illustrations centred on the idea of him being transported through time and space to his homeland. His work, which he named “Teleport Art”, gained notoriety in the New York street art scene.

Living in New York, he witnessed everyday life in the material world: people striving for a better life, gender and equality. The hope in an ultimate utopia being found by the subject of his art being found through a black hole.

Gongkan’s art incorporates symbols of every day objects: sky, clouds and water painted in his own unique style, illustrating the transformation of one object to another. He particularly likes to feature free-spirited forms of moving water. Each element references freedom.

Gongkan works in various media and materials: sculptures, paintings, street art, paint, fiberglass, metal… and even icecream. His work has been shown around the world, in New York, Taipei, Shanghai, Beijing, Tokyo, and Bangkok, to name but a few.