As bird-goddess she was the sky and her life-bestowing waters fell as the rain from her breasts, the clouds. 

The Divine Feminine (1996), Anne Baring & Andrew Harvey.

100 Tonson Gallery invites you to cast around the marvelous meaning of “Breasts and Clouds” from the latest painting exhibition of Pinaree Sanpitak.  The Contemporary Thai Artist who has an individual creature with Female symbol “Breasts” in the delicate, sensible, and passionate meaning.

When Pinaree Sanpitak instinctively began brushing intimate watercolour studies of breasts and clouds, she had no conscious realisation to the broader female aligned associations between the two initially disparate entities. 

Internationally recognised for her three-dimensional installation and participatory art works, Pinaree still deems two-dimensional drawing and painting as fundamental to her creative process. For her first display of new paintings on home soil in over six-years, the Bangkok based artist nurtures an aesthetic and sensory relationship between her totemic breast and cloud forms into larger compositions on canvas. 

Despite their physicality, Pinaree’s floating bodies are more ephemeral in their nature than the more grounded forms in Womanly Abstract (1999). Previously in works like Breast Stupas (2000-1), Pinaree interwove religious iconography leveling wider associations to femininity and the divine. Yet she doesn’t regard her art as being indicatively religious, it is not intended to convey any particular religious countenance, with her organic meteorological forms indeterminably celestial in their interpretation. 

Conscious to the passivity of painting, Pinaree manifested these latest works to co-exist and interact alongside one another, physically positioning her breast and cloud paintings with consideration to the total environment. Sentient in their delivery, Pinaree’s paintings should be contemplated in a manner a kin to Mark Rothko’s brooding atmospheric abstracts.   

Collaborative musical accompaniment also contributes a further dimension, expanding her perspectives through emotive reactions from neutral observers that in part serve to relinquish the artist’s overall creative control, lending emphasis to the role of the audience.