The opening of The Tang Chang Private Museum in Bangkok was featured in the South China Morning Post in an article by Enid Tsui, marking the museum’s May 1 launch and foregrounding the family’s efforts to preserve and promote Tang Chang’s work and legacy.
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The Tang Chang Private Museum opens on May 1 as the Bangkok-born artist’s family aims to show the world his work before it’s too late.
There was never any doubt that Nawapooh Sae-tang, the grandson of the late Bangkok-born artist Tang Chang, would inherit the family business of protecting and promoting his legacy.
“My father had told me from a young age that as his eldest son, I would have to be involved in the running of the estate,” he says ahead of the May 1 opening of the Tang Chang Private Museum in Nakhon Pathom, an hour outside the Thai capital.
It might not have been his choice, but Nawapooh has blossomed into a dedicated champion of his grandfather, who died in 1990, two years before Nawapooh was born.
The estate has felt like something of a ball and chain for the family ever since Tang chose his fourth son – Nawapooh’s father, Thip – to manage his affairs posthumously. The burden also fell heavily on Nawapooh’s mother, Duangnate, who had to navigate all the English-language communications in the early days.
Text courtesy of Enid Tsui and the South China Morning Post.
Images:
- An untitled diptych that Tang painted with his hands and body in the 1960s is displayed at the new Tang Chang Private Museum (Photo: Tang Chang Private Museum).
- The exterior of the new Tang Chang Private Museum (Photo: Enid Tsui).
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