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GONGKAN - KANTAPON METHEEKUL
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(b. 1989)
BLAZE AND AQUA
2017/2560
Oil on steel door
141 X 452 cm
Signed (lower right)
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Kantapon Metheekul, born in 1989, graduated in Communication Design from
the Faculty of Decorative Arts at Silpakorn University. After working for a period
in an advertising company, he decided to move to New York, where he began
his artistic career in street art under the name
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