On view at the Encounters sector (EN10) as a special invitation by the fair committee, Mit’s large-scale installation in a sculpturesque sense of form enfolds viewers, conjuring an immersive experience comprising light, color, and space. Thickly layered an textured two-sided paintings emerge from Mit Jai Inn's mutually meditative and physically rigorous practice. Highly visual, tactile and haptic, Plane (Electric) belongs to his ongoing series, 'Planes', which alludes to the measurable and the imperceptible; to painting's physicality in dividing space and our place in it, and to the otherworldly dimensions of its making and where it take us.
Inspired by Hong Kong, Planes (Electric) channels the nature and context of the city and its marketplace. Both singularly and collectively, the colorful, rainbow-bright hanging wall works and undulating scrolls emit vibrations intended to playfully mimic the city‘s ever-present light and movement of energy, people and things. Mit Jai Inn invites audiences to experience and engage with the spectacular planes of color in a sculptural field whose infinitely variable formats shift day by day.
Mit Jai Inn
Born in 1960, Mit Jai Inn’s world-famous abstract spatial art pieces come in rough and organic oil pigment clumps condensed upon the huge untrimmed linen canvas, which usually give off a sense of wildness and freshness as well as the vibrant and saturated shades characteristic of the tropical rainforests to the audience. His art work display can be diverse: sometimes the pieces are hung from the wall in the exhibition space, suspended in midair, swaying to and fro with the turbulence of air flow following the audience’s traversing in between the scrolls; sometimes his pieces are spread flat on the cement ground of the exhibition hall, allowing the audience to walk on his work and appreciate its contour from underneath their shoes. Through his unconventional application of painting media, Mit Jai Inn creates a different visual approach to art, in which the cultural concept of color is involved, and leaves his audience to ponder and reflect upon the politics of space with respect to aesthetic, social and political histories. Having obtained recognition in the Biennale of Sydney (2018). Mit’s work has also been exhibited in the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo (2017) , National Gallery Singapore (2014), Palais de Tokyo in Paris (2007). His first ever largescale solo exhibition in Taiwan, Light, Dark, Other, was held in TKG+ in October, 2018.