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Opening: 20.06.2018, from 6 p.m.Central Embassy, BangkokRegistration: from 6 to 7 p.m.Opening cerimony and artists speech: from 7 p.m.

Exhibition: 21.06 - 8.07.2018, 10 a.m-8 p.m

[dip] is delighted to present Indian artists Thukral & Tagra’s first solo show in Thailand.Jiten Thukral and Sumir Tagra work collaboratively with a wide range of me-dia including painting, sculpture, installations, interactive games, video, per-formance and design. Thukral & Tagra work on new formats of public enga-gement and attempt to expand the scope of what art can do. They break out of the mediated and disciplinary world and create multimodal sensory and immersive environments.Their earlier work dealt with tropes of migration and motifs of a globally mani-fested consumer culture. It questioned the provenance of Indian identity and its various articulations. Their recent work has dealt with the interpretation of Indian mythological narratives and symbols in ways that renew and enliven a largely pedantic and static area of cultural material.From a pop visual character to a predominantly abstract visual approach and compositional philosophy, Thukral & Tagra constantly shift in terms of their grammar and vocabulary. The abstract suggestions of an everyday experien-ce of architecture and urban design in Gurgaon (Haryana, India) and Chandi-garh (Punjab, India) is embedded in their visual language. They have offered sociopolitical commentary that is implicit in their aesthetic for the past fifteen years.

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THUKRAL AND TAGRA

OPENING: Wednesday 20/6From 6 to 7pm: regis t rat ion | From 7pm: opening ceremony and ar t is t ’s speech

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explores the idea of transposing Indian mythology into a Thai context by rejuvenating narratives and symbols to give an updated dimension to our traditional understanding of cultural matter and living in ethical solidarity.The exhibition is an extension to the series Play Pray/Set Point.Since 2015 the Artists have explored the idea of “play” from a cultural, stra-tegic and psychological perspective, with the project Play Pray. Since 2017, with the exhibition Set Point, they explore mythology, in particular Indian, with rejuvenating narrative and symbols to give a fresh dimension to the traditional understanding of cultural matter.This exhibition, their first solo show in Thailand, continues the portrayal of mythological events and mathematical assertions through the vocabulary of sports. It is a musing experience of a conscious being trapped in the perplexity of the set of circumstances keeping Ramakien/Ramayana as a central para-digm.The being is conditioned to think, the fragments of social construct demands either to speculate or contemplate. The mind of the being is itinerant, weighed by dilemmas, dignity, love, loyalty, devotion and duty.The artwork seeks to make explicit motifs that are implicit in a contemporary realm.The exhibition includes a set of Prints (silk screen on archival foil print) which represent the foundation of our cultural code and which are at the base of our society, and are Dilemma, Dogma, Law, Tradition, Devotion, Loyalty, Obedience, Intelligence. This work, Mythological Induction is a depiction of the foundation of social construct of society. Every fragment of each lithograph leaves a mark of virtues on cultural ethical code. The venn diagrams shows all possible logical relations between a finite collection of different relationships. The insertion of suggestive metaphors re-imagines the informational venn dia-grams, transforming the conservative form into a visceral viewing experience.The exhibition includes two paintings. The paintings are a dense mass of batt-lefields. The being walks the sinuous passage that faces a constant predica-ment to go either way, he is constantly thrown into the court where it loses the ability to figure what is the surface of the table or the edge of it. But with the contemplated system of thoughts, instincts and consciousness, the ball finds its way through the rational conduct of the society.It features an installation, a Ping Pong table which is imagined as an arena which mirrors the tangibility of the actions. The humble legs of the table are caught in a fragile act, attempting to support the weight of the rational conduct. Hovering between the push and pull of the forces, the ball is an insignificant speck in the massive arena. Its journey is precarious at any moment it threa-tens to slip between negatives or the positives.

PLAY PREY POP OUT is a project by [dip] contemporary art, developed in colla-boration with Central Embassy, where the exhibition takes place.

Central EmbassyBangkok’s iconic art, fashion and lifestyle destination, is designed to form a part of a larger property with Central Chidlom - adding youthful dynamism and bringing a lifestyle-centric approach to one of Central Group’s most successful retail outlets, under the concept of ‘One Life, Infinite Possibilities’. Offering an unparalleled lifestyle experience that builds upon the group’s peerless re-tail heritage, Central Embassy continues to serve as a hub for both Thai and international visitors, indulging global shoppers with an inspiring selection of fashion, lifestyle, food, music, art and design.

[dip] contemporary art [dip] is a contemporary art gallery located in Lugano, opened by Michela Ne-grini. Representing a range of international artists, [dip] aims at being a stimu-lating platform for exploring new developments in international contemporary art, across a range of practices and media, building a bridge between art and society, raising public attention on the issues that inspire and challenge our society.

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THUKRAL AND TAGRA

OPENING: Wednesday 20/6From 6 to 7pm: regis t rat ion | From 7pm: opening ceremony and ar t is t ’s speech

CENTRAL EMBASSY, BANGKOK

21/6 8/7

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The Artists: Thukral & Tagra

Jiten ThukralBorn 1976, Jalandhar, Punjab, India_1998 BFA, Chandigarh Art College_2000 MFA, New Delhi College of Art

Sumir TagraBorn 1979, New Delhi, India_1999 Shankar’s Academy of Arts, New Delhi_2002 BFA, New Delhi College of Art_2006 PG, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad

The artists live and work in Gurgaon, Haryana (a suburb of New Delhi).

“They are unlike any artists you may have met in the millennium. Irreverent, humorous and comically dark, their works — paintings, sculptures, installa- tions and a series of ingenious games — are designed to be entertaining but underlined by a social, spiritual or environmental message.As artists blurring the lines between Fine art, pop culture and product pla-cement, they have faced their fair share of criticism. However, their deeply aesthetic creations, reflecting the concerns of our times and backed by moun- tains of research, have also found tremendous following. Their work has been auctioned at Sotheby’s with eight figure price tags, been picked up by art col-lectors like Frank Cohen and pop star Elton John, and also been placed alon-gside international contemporaries like Japanese pop artist Takashi Murakami and American multimedia artist Matthew Barney”. Giorgina Maddox

Over the years they have had notable exhibitions at the sixth edition of the Asia Pacific Triennial, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Arken Museum, Den-mark; Kunstmuseum, Bochum; Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art, France and Mori Art Museum, Tokyo. In 2010 they held a solo show “Match Fixed” at the Ullens Centre of Contemporary Art, Beijing and in 2015 they were invited to mount a solo show Games People Play at the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad City Mu-seum in Mumbai.

Selected solo shows

2018Bretton Park Gallery – Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UKKunstverein Ludwigsburg – Ludwigsburg, Germany

2017“Bread, Circuses & Wifi” – Pearl Lam Gallery, Hong Kong“Bread, Circuses & You” – Art Dubai, Dubai“Memoir Bar” – FICA/IAF, New Delhi“Play, Pray”- Bikaner House, New Delhi

2016“Walk of Life” – Fed @ KCAD Galleries, Michigan“ABWAB – The Emotional Pavilion”- Dubai Design Week,Dubai“Memoir Bar” – Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai

2015“Q : The Lighthouse”- Nature Morte, New Delhi“Games People Play” – Bau Daji Lad Museum, Bombay, April – July“Thukral & Tagra Foundation”- #letsdyetogether – Indian Design, New Delhi

2013“Q”- Famous Studios, Nature Morte, Mumbai“Mirabilia Collection” – Etro, London“Longing for Tomorrow-II- Meissen porcelain”-Residence of the German Am-bassador to India, New Delhi“Windows of Opportunity” – Art Plural, Singapore

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2012“Longing for Tomorrow”- Nature Morte, Berlin“Nosturistic”- Hilger Contemporary, Vienna

2011“German Return”- Nature Morte, Gurgaon“Put It On, Again!”- Nature Morte, New Delhi“Thukral & Tagra Foundation”- Project Booth, Art Summit, New Delhi“Science Mystery Magic”- BTAP Gallery and Tokyo Art Fair, Tokyo

2010“Middle Class Dreams”- Arario Gallery, Seoul“Low-Tech Family Vacations”- Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore“Match Fixed/Fixed Match”- Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing

2009“Nouveau Riche”- Nature Morte, Berlin“Thukral & Tagra, 315 Sector 23, Opp Bosedk Mall”- Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney

2008“New Improved Bosedk”- Chatterjee and Lal, Mumbai“Somnium Genero 02” – Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney“Somnium Genero Cafe”- Tokyo Art Fair, Tokyo

2007“Adolescere-Domus”- Art Statements, Art Basel 38, Nature Morte“Put it On”- Bose Pacia, New York“Everyday Bosedk”- Nature Morte, New Delhi

2006“Vector Classics”- Jehangir Nicholson Gallery, NCPA, Mumbai“Vector Classics”- Alliance Francaise, New Delhi

2005“Iconography”- Nature Morte, New Delhi

Selected Group Exhibitions

2017The Sculpture Park at Madhavendra Palace, Nahargarh Fort, Jaipur – Nature Morte“Set Point_Laughing in the Vernacular” NGMA – Sakshi Gallery – Mumbai“Walk of Life” – Alchemy, South Bank Centre, London

2016“Walk of Life (Water) – Climate Control” – The Manchester Museum, Manche-ster“Level 01” – Khoj International Artists Association, New Delhi“The Droste Effect” – NATURE MORTE in collaboration with The Independent, Brussels“Outer Market – History in Motion”- TING Arts Centre, Paris

2015“Of Games Residencies III”- Khoj International Artists Association, New Delhi

2014“Sparsha -Touching the Senses. Ritual and Contemporary Indian Art”- Kunst-museum Bochum“Ethereal,” curated by Dr. Amin Jaffer, Leila Heller Gallery, New York Oct 23 – Dec 13, 2014“All Well & Good?!”, Herbert Gerisch Stiftung, Neumunster, Germany Nov 2, 2014 – April 12, 2015“Art Guild House” T&T sports, Phoenix Market city, Kurla Bombay – May 2014

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2013“Island” – Dairy Art Centre, London“Panoplism”- Nature Morte, New Delhi

2012“Indian Highway”- UCCA, Beijing“Escape”(pinball -Airlines”- India Today Arken Museum of Modern Art, Den-mark“India- Lado A Lado”- SESC Belezinho, Brazil

2011“The Matter Within”- Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco“Indian Highway”- Maxxi Museum, Rome“Paris Delhi Bombay”- Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris“Asianart: Sustain”- Nature Morte, Berlin“Maximum India”- Kennedy Center, Washington DC“Concurrent India”- Helsinki Art Museum Tennis Palace, Finland“Vernacular Cultures: Contemporary Art from Australia, India and the Philippi-nes”- LaTrobeUniversity Museum of Art, Melbourne“Indian Highway IV”- Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art, France“Avant Premiere”- Art Plural Gallery, Singapore“Future Pass”- Venice Biennale and Wereld Museum, Rotterdam

2010“Finding India”- Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei“SAMDIGIT”- Gallery 5, Kulturhuset, Stockholm“Bosedk Project”- Richmond Art Gallery, Vancouver“Urban Matters 2”- SESC Pompie, Sao Paulo“Khoj-in-Context”- Public Art.Ecology, New Delhi“11th Hour”- Tang Contemporary, Beijing“Inside India”- Palazzo Saluzzo di Paesana, TurinCommonwealth Games Exhibition, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi

2009“Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art”- National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul;Essl Museum, Vienna“Escape for the Dream Land”- Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Arts 06,Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane

2008“The Audience & the Eavesdropper”- Phillips de Pury, London and New York“Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art”- Mori Art Museum, Tokyo“Make Art Stop AIDS”- UCLA Fowler Museum, Los Angeles“Imaginery Realities”- Max Wigram Gallery, London“Face East”- Weidel Fine Art, London

2007“Animamix Biennial”- The Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai“New Delhi New Wave”- Marella Gallery, Milan“Size Matters”- Art Consult, New DelhiGalerie Mirchandani & Steinruecke, Mumbai

2006“Global Edit 06”- Armani Casa with Wallpaper Magazine, Milan

2005“New Paintings”- Nature Morte, New Delhi

2004“Visual Dialogue”- Hype Gallery, London

Mythological Inductions (HONOR VS LOVE), 2018Silk screen on archival, foil print20 x 30 inch, eachedition of 12Courtesy the Artists and [dip] contemporary art, Lugano

Mythological Inductions (BATTLER VS CAMARADERIE), 2018Silk screen on archival, foil print20 x 30 inch, eachedition of 12Courtesy the Artists and [dip] contemporary art, Lugano

Mythological Inductions (DESIRES VS DUTY), 2018Silk screen on archival, foil print20 x 30 inch, eachedition of 12Courtesy the Artists and [dip] contemporary art, Lugano

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Rama 2, 2018oil on canvasdiam. 48 x 48 inchCourtesy the Artists and [dip] contemporary art, Lugano

Rama 3, 2018oil on canvasdiam. 48 x 48 inchCourtesy the Artists and [dip] contemporary art, Lugano

Table (artistic randering), 2018102 x 67 x 5 inch. and 30 x 36 x 5 inch. and 96 x 48 x 4 inch.Courtesy the Artists and [dip] contemporary art, Lugano

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