Knakorn Kachacheewa
Pool , 2012
Acrylic on Canvas
200 x 180 cm
SOLD
In Pool (2012), a man and a woman rest at the edge of a pool, backs to the viewer. It resembles the casual domestic vignettes of Alex Katz. The couple stares at a wall of leafy plants, above which, magically or allegorically, float portraits and a small segment of landscape with a cloudy sky. Here, Kachacheewa seems to channel René Magritte—particularly in the earlier painter’s interest in clouds, his trick lighting, and his ability to make the everyday phenomenal and mysterious.