塔瓦猜·汶杜沙瓦迪，《神星》，曼谷 Numthong Gallery 展览现场
Tawatchai Puntusuwasdi, Haumea, Installation view at Numthong Gallery, Bangkok
BANK is pleased to announce that Tawatchai Puntusawasdi’s work Haumea has entered the collection of the Singapore Art Museum (SAM), generously donated by M Art Foundation.
Born in Bangkok in 1971, Tawatchai Puntusawasdi is one of Southeast Asia’s most significant contemporary sculptors. His practice is distinguished by its rational precision, geometric abstraction, and metaphysical meditations on time and space, consistently exploring the relationship between form and shadow through mathematical logic and three-dimensional construction.
Haumea, the work donated to SAM by M Art Foundation, is a 2-meter-tall sculpture composed of over a thousand precisely riveted aluminum plates. It stems from the artist’s three-year investigation into the concept of Earth’s "shadow." Puntusawasdi posed the question: "If the Earth’s core were distorted, how would its shape and shadow transform?" This inquiry became the foundation for the work—a distorted sphere derived from methodically twisting and compressing symmetrical proportions on paper before materializing it in sculptural form.
Haumea derives its visual tension from its precarious support angles and the aesthetics of structural distortion. Viewers may question whether it might topple—yet it is precisely this "apparent instability" that evokes profound associations with gravity, axises, and the equilibrium of spacetime. Tawatchai’s restrained and deliberate aesthetic transforms his meditations on technology and cosmic architecture into a poetic logic of sculptural language.
Beginning with the concept of "Earth’s shadow" and culminating in the construction of a metaphysical "divine star," Tawatchai Puntusawasdi merges scientific modeling with artistic conception. The work exemplifies his singular creative trajectory: at the intersection of geometry and philosophy, he forges a sculptural vocabulary of our time.
