https://www.aucklandartgallery.com/whats-on/exhibition/sorawit-songsataya-the-interior?q=%2Fwhats-on%2Fexhibition%2Fsorawit-songsataya-the-interior
Large blue object
Outside
Weathered
Stone Carved
Dinosaur like
Laying on the ground
White figures surround: possibly representing birds, water birds, cormorants on opposite sides
Tui
Materials look sturdy
Stone
Porous
Blue / teal
Swan has a pool of water on the top of it 3D printed Outdoors, birds chirping in the back ground
Initial reactions to a teal shaped sculpture sitting outside the Auckland art gallery. Laying over the floor beneath its self, a scattering range of figures disperse around the veranda, shapes of off white textures repeat a surrounding the teal central object in the middle. figure like in its physique and posture, almost as if it were breathing laying at a dormant rest. This figure crosses diagonally through the veranda area, curled over its self. This figure in the middle appears much larger than the surrounding few figures, they seem to be almost less detailed and harder to pick out specifics and details. Approaching this work multiple elements are at play, first the attendance of fresh outdoor air, moving, it’s not indoors as it is felt on the face. Secondly the trees in front attaching the works to the outdoors yet almost detached with imposing concrete style walls blockading the real outdoors from interfering although it always makes its way in. The sculptural work in the center draws attention, it’s vibrant teal turquoise blue colour invites a possible viewer, it’s texture a matte finish almost and resembles a cloudy plastic. It’s scale although large is laying down, the viewer is taller from a standing vantage point, peering down on its laying figure and body. The prehistoric nature of this center sculpture appears to be a ratite of some sort, it’s almost safe to assume it is a moa from its shape and size, the moa of course being Aotearoas famously extinct endemically native ratite, a large flightless bird found nowhere else but Aotearoa, now gone forever.
It’s body on the veranda is surrounded by other figures, all which appear to resemble other types of birds, some appear familiar, definitely a few cormorants from the long slender bodies and an almost hooked beak.
Llenyd Price 