Coca-Cola And Pepsi Art By Pakpoom Silaphan

Pakpoom Silaphan – Frida Sits on Coke Sign 2013 Mixed media on vintage metal sign 139 x 139 x 20.6 cm (54.7 x 54.7 x 8.1″)

Art by Pakpoom Silaphan

Pakpoom Silaphan – Pollock Drips on Coke Mixed media on vintage metal signs

ABOUT PAKPOOM SILAPHAN

Silaphanʼs practice examines notions of globalisation, mass consumerism and the universal reach of cultural icons across the world. Silaphan primarily uses found-objects such as old metal advertising signs collected during his years living in Thailand, as his canvas. Also using vintage wooden Pepsi and Coca-Cola crates, reminiscent of Warholʼs Brillo Box installations; Silaphan re-works these objects to create a fresh interpretation of Pop Art and opens a discourse on the effects of advertising and mass consumption. The infiltration of western imagery and ideology had a profound influence on Silaphanʼs understanding of the West and on his artistic practice. Using his favoured artistic icons, such as Warhol, Dali and Frida Khalo, he collages and paints over these branded advertising signs and crates, implying the artistsʼ identity as a recognised global brand itself. Silaphan creates an engaging dialogue between the relationship between East and West, and the universal language of signs and symbols that is accessible to all and has been imprinted on to the universal collective consciousness.

Pakpoom Silaphan was born in 1972 in Bangkok, Thailand. He received his BFA from Silapakorn University in Bangkok before moving to England in 2002 to study printmaking at Camberwell College of Art and a Masters in Fine Art which he received from Chelsea College of Art and Design. Silaphanʼs work has been placed in the Hiscox Collection, Sir Paul Smithʼs collection and has been featured in the significant publication “For Which It Stands: Americana in Contemporary Art” by Carla Sakamoto, published by Farameh Media in 2012. In 2004 he was shortlisted for the John Mooreʼs 23 prize at the Liverpool Museum. Silaphan’s work has been published in the Financial Times twice,

The Independent in 2011 where Emma Love described Silaphan’s work as “a sign of the times” and in 2013 “the Pop artist of these times” and Elle Magazine amongst others. Silaphan has exhibited in London, Japan, Hong Kong, New York, Singapore and India.

Silaphan has been commissioned by the Siam Centre for a public

art commission in Bangkok which was unveiled in May 2013.

Pakpoom Silaphan – Warhol on Coke Button – Mixed media on vintage metal sign

Pakpoom Silaphan – Basquiat Sits on Double Pepsi – 2011, Mixed media on vintage metal signs 173.8 x 137.8 cm (68.4 x 54.2″)

Pakpoom Silaphan – Dali Sits on Pepsi – 2011, Mixed media on vintage metal signs 176.6 x 137.9 cm (69.5 x 54.2″)

Frida with Gun on 7Up Mixed media on vintage metal signs

Dali and Flowers on Pepsi Mixed media on vintage metal signs

You can find Pakpoom Silaphan HERE.