Aspen Art Museum Summer Magazine 2023

ASPEN ART MUSEUM

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Meet the Artists

Works by these artists and more will be auctioned in support of the Aspen Art Museum during ArtCrush 2023. Each work has been generously donated by artists and their galleries, including ArtCrush Honoree Nairy Baghramian, Kerstin Brätsch, and many more. Discover some of the participating artists here and view the complete selection of works in person at the AAM from July 26 to August 3, or online at sothebys.com/aspenartmuseum Compiled with the support of the AAM’s Collector Committee and co-chaired by Abigail Ross Goodman and Molly Epstein, the exhibition brings together over 50 artists across a wide range of disciplines.

Korakrit Arunanondchai Work kindly donated by the artist and Clearing

Korakrit Arunanondchai sees himself as a storyteller. In his own words, cited on Moderna Museet’s website, where he had a solo exhibition last year: “As the author I exist in between the image and the audience, in the air of the room, telling the story. I am never completely inside one world or another.” Working with video, sculpture, painting, music and performance, merging them into new hybrid forms, Arunanondchai begins with the per- sonal, and from there expands outwards. Raised in Bangkok, and now living between there and New York, he draws upon his family history as well as the history and politics of Thailand and South-East Asia. His interests span time and history, the geopolitical and the spiritual, folklore and technology. Often working with regular collaborators, in his performances he explores the power of gathering. In 2012, Arunanondchai created a “denim painter character” for himself, choosing to use denim as the support for his paintings. In an interview with the Art Newspaper in 2021, he explains: “I wanted to make a story or narrative around the word denim. For me, con­ temporary art has always been this globalizing force. As soon as someone painted on a canvas, that’s when they entered the Western canon of painting. Painting with a capital “P”. I felt like I wanted to paint on denim because denim constantly signifies Western globaliza- tion and the soft power of America.” Arunanondchai has exhibited extensively around the world, includ- ing solo exhibitions and performances at Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2022); Kunstverein Hamburg and Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich (both 2021); and Secession, Vienna (2019). His work is in prominent collec- tions including Centre Pompidou, Paris; Tate, UK; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Last summer he staged an outdoor performance here in Aspen with director Alex Gvojic (in collaboration with Tosh Basco).

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