I went to see Wisut Ponnimit Solo Exhibition “inside the wall” at Ikejiri Institute of Design(IID) last week. The day I went, they were having opening party with special performance, which is live wall drawing by Wisut and Japanese cartoonist, Kotobuki Shiriagari. As a big fan of manga, I was so excited to see this event!
Wisut Ponnimit Solo Exhibition inside the wall
© Wisut Ponnimit
Wisut’s new paintings are on display
© Wisut Ponnimit
Live drawing were supposed to start at 7:00. But when I got there on 6:30, dense crowd were already piled up on the one corner. Pushing my way out through the throng, Wisut was about to finish his first drawing on the big white wall.
Seeing him draw for a while, I realized that Wisut was doing facial caricature of the audience. Shiriagari joined in casually, and thier performance was started just like that.
I heard that they were originally planning to do “cartoon relay.” Then seeing so many people showed up, Wisut suggested to do somehing else, something capture this atomosphere, hence, facial caricature was brought up instead. Naturally, crowd of people were trying to get artists’ attention. “Hey, pick me!”
Anyway, once the show started, they drew people’s portraits at a speed of light! The walls were filled with smiley faces right before our eyes. Though they were doing it in a breeze, portraits capturede each character so well. We were all proud of becoming a part of the exhibition, being drawn on the wall in the end!
Besides our faces on the wall, Wisut new paintings are exhibited at the show. If you have a chance, please check out his new paintings and our happy faces at the exhibition.
Wisut Ponnimit Solo Exhibition inside the wall
Tuesday, November 22nd - December 25th
Time: 11:00～19:00
Place: Ikejiri Institute of Design(IID)
Organized by IID
When they still had lots of white space...
faces of the audience started to fill the wall
drawing on the bottom part...
and top part....
and looking at audeince face....
and drawing on and on....
then wall were filled up with smiley faces
audience watching their performance and progress
audience watching their performance and progress
close up of thier drawing. this part, many of them were done by Kotobuki Shiriagari
close up of thier drawing. this part, many of them were done by Wisut Ponnimit. many faces with glasses.
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I want to be there too….
It must be extremely interesting!
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