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NOSBAUM REDING - Tawan Wattuya Solo show
Through watercolor and oil paint, Tawan Wattuya creates an aesthetics that arouses, excites while colliding with the senses, terrifying viewers, but also tickling them with caustic humor. A graduate of the Faculty of Painting, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts at Silpakorn University, Wattuya has exhibited widely both in Thailand and internationally.
Wattuya's portraits and paintings are inspired by real people in the pop culture, whether it be beauty queens, stars and celebrities, politicians, or superheroes from cartoons and films, and of common people from all walks of life he met along his way, as well as records of events, both national and international alike. All these familiar social signifiers are recreated and transformed in a way that they become fluid, shredded, broken, blurred, diminished, expanded, and accentuated. The public icons with strong background stories are presented with divergent perception. Their imageries embedded deeply in popular recognition are altered, though not without familiar traces. These signifiers induce the spectators to envision some signs of truth hidden under watercolor or oil paint brush strokes in expressionist styles.
As for his Money series work, Wattuya recreates and vivifies banknotes from all over the world by painting enlarged versions of them in watercolor, preserving the characters of each currency but letting the fluid properties of the watercolor forge new images. The blurriness, ambiguity, and beauty of these metamorphosed banknotes reflect the transformation of the world that is turning these banknotes into mere paper.
Wattuya's reproductions of the banknotes also highlight the different identities of each country. What appears in front of you may make you consider what is inside your pocket. In reality, what we assume is valuable today may be worthless tomorrow.
From another perspective, the enlarged watercolor banknotes play with the conception of value. Each and every currency which is valued differently according to today's exchange rate is suddenly worth peculiarly equally. When a small banknote in our wallet is transfigured through Wattuya's artistry onto a piece of huge painting paper, it becomes a valuable artwork. The alchemy of different paper values in the real and art world displays his sharp sense of irony, as if the seal and signature of the Treasurer of each banknote are endorsed by Wattuya himself. They are Wattuya's banknotes or, jokingly saying, he is laundering all these banknotes into his artistic treasure.
Wattuya's banknotes are issued to represent aesthetic value in the arts market.
Wutigorn Kongka
(Translated by Pakavadi Veerapasapong)
Money
24.06.2026 - 29.08.2026
This and more exhibitions are to be discovered at the gallery
Nosbaum Reding
4 rue Wiltheim
2733 Luxembourg
Luxembourg
Tawan Wattuya, Luxembourg, 100 Francs, 1981, 2026
Money, watercolor on paper, 100 x 200 cm
Tawan Wattuya, Belgium, 500 Belgian Francs, 1998, 2025
Money, watercolor on paper, 100 x 200 cm
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ABOUT
Véronique Nosbaum and Alex Reding founded their contemporary art gallery in Luxembourg in 2001. Initially named Alimentation générale, it proved to be one of the most popular places for the young Luxembourg scene. Its concept, oscillating between project room and art gallery, quickly attracted the strongest artists of the current contemporary market. In 2006, the gallery moved to the centre of Luxembourg-City and took its definitive name and form: Nosbaum Reding. At this point the gallery established itself on the international market: BRAFA, Art Brussels, Art Paris, etc. Alex Reding and Véronique Nosbaum continued their tireless support of artists through their international programme, forging the image of a dynamic Luxembourg art scene. In 2014, a second space called Projects was opened, with the aim of supporting young Luxembourg and border artists by offering them a space alongside established artists from the programme such as Barthélémy Toguo, Peter Zimmermann, Su-Mei Tse, Stephan Balkenhol, Damien Deroubaix, Tina Gillen and Manuel Ocampo. In 2021, buoyed by its international success and the confidence of its artists and collectors, Nosbaum Reding opened a second branch in the trendy Ixelles area of Brussels. Its programme is designed to reflect the values of the parent gallery. Nosbaum Reding’s priorities have always been and remain the simultaneous support of young talent alongside the stars it has made and the stars it has attracted over the course of its twenty-year journey through the contemporary art world.
Founded : 2001
Specialisations
Contemporary art
Associations
Art actuel.lu, Cercle d'art contemporain Bruxelles, NECA – Brussels, LAFA, Luxembourg, RendezVous - Brussels Art Week
Fairs
BRAFA - Brussels, Luxembourg Art Week, Art Brussels, Art Paris