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Peap TARR finds his artistic roots in the graffiti art culture but blends it with his New Zealand and Cambodian heritage to create a unique form of street art. His sinister, yet tranquil, works of art have become his signature style, and have caught the attention of art lovers from around the world, and also gained the respect of many of his art peers. His work has appeared in various international art magazines and galleries. Peap’s street art is unique. It exists in a world where light and dark battle, yet coexist to balance each other and contrast each other. He works almost exclusively in black and white, and his tribal patterns owe as much to his New Zealand heritage as to his Cambodian ancestry.

Lisa MAM is Cambodia’s first female Urban Street Artist and has exhibited nationally and internationally. Most notably, she participated in the charity auction officiated by Lionel Gosset of Christie’s Paris held in Cambodia in 2012, the Lotus Arts De Vivre in Bangkok, and the Bed Supper club Bangkok. Lisa aka “Lil Dots” is a rising star in the rapidly changing art scene of Phnom Penh. She is a trailblazer, and is helping to develop a new urban art movement. She hopes one day that Khmer Graffiti and Street Art will be seen all around the world giving a boost to the rebirth of a vibrant Khmer arts tradition.

Peap TARR trouve ses racines dans la culture “graffiti” mélangeant son héritage neo- zélandais et cambodgien pour créer un art de la rue tout à fait unique. Son travail, macabre bien que paisible est devenu son style. Sa signature a attiré l’attention des amoureux des Arts de La Rue à travers le monde et le respect de ses pairs. Ses œuvres paraissent dans toutes sortes de magazines internationaux et dans des Galeries. L’art de La Rue de Peap est unique. Parfaitement équilibré coexiste dans son travail la bataille du noir et de la lumière. Son travail est généralement en noir et blanc. Ses dessins tribaux  ont plus avoir avec son héritage néo zélandais que khmer.

Lisa MAM est la première femme cambodgienne graffeuse. Elle a exposé aussi bien dans son pays qu’à l’international. Elle a participé en 2012 à la première vente aux enchères  caritative orchestrée par Lionel Gosset de chez Christie’s Paris. Elle a également exposé chez Lotus Art de Vivre à Bangkok et au Bed Supper club de Bangkok. Lisa dite “Lil Dots” est une étoile montante qui a rapidement changé la scène Phnompenhoise.  C’est une pionnière qui aide à développer dans son pays un courant “Graffeurs”. Le rêve de Lisa c’est de voir dans les rues du monde entier le travail des graffeurs khmers, ce qui donnera un sérieux coup de pouce à l’art traditionnel khmer.

Web Site : www.fatcap.com/article/peap/sets

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Robotang is a french artist and designer, native to Cambodia. Valedictorian of the EcoleProfessionnelleSupérieured'Artsgraphiquesetd'Architecture (Professional Superior School of Graphic Arts and Architecture) of Paris in 1997, he has worked on graphic and artistic creations for advertising agencies and major brands.

Since 2009 he has lived in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, where he works in design, interior architecture and photography. In this country of revival, he contributes, among other emerging artists, to shape the new face of the Kingdom of Cambodia.

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Come see these masks, blending tradition and modernity, all in an expertise that is reborn

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Born in Prey Veng in 1973, SOK Chan began work as an apprentice in an NGO run program to learn the rapidly disappearing art of carving buffalo horn. His great talent was quickly recognized, and after only six months in the program, he left to become the assistant to his master. Unfortunately, due to a lack of market demand for his work, he abandoned his art to become a construction worker. Ten years later, after exploring renewed interest in his art, he decided to return to his first love. Today, he employs seven carvers who work hard to keep up with an ever-growing order book. SOK Chan produces mostly custom made pieces of jewelry, but also creates his own designs. He remains one of the few Cambodian artisans who still work the beautiful black and white buffalo horn, and thanks to his willingness to pass along his knowledge, he is helping to revitalize a traditional skill and art form that were almost lost.

 
Né à Prey Veng, en 1973, SOK Chan a commencé à travailler avec une ONG à l’âge de 16 ans, à apprendre l'art de la sculpture sur corne de buffle. Il est si talentueux qu’il quitte le programme d’apprentissage au bout du six mois pour devenir l’assistant de son maître. Malheureusement, à cause du manque de demande sur le marché, il abandonne son art pour devenir maçon. Dix ans plus tard, constatant  l’intérêt renouvelé pour son art, il décide de retourner à ses premières amours. Il reste un des derniers cambodgiens qui travaillent encore la corne de buffle et perpétue ainsi un savoir ancestral. 

Sopheap was born on May 9, 1971 in the town of KohKralaw.  In 1979 his family left as refugees to the camps in Thailand where he learned to speak Khmer language and began learning English.

After some transitions, including some six months in the Philippines, he settled in Amherst, Massachusetts in the USA in 1984.
There he enrolled at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1990 majoring in Pre-Medicine. In the last semester, he decided to change his major from Pre-Med to Painting.  In 1993, he took a school trip to photograph the Mayan Ruins in Mexico and Guatemala.  In the summer of the same year, he goes on another school trip to France and Italy where he discovered the museums of Paris and the Uffizi in Florence.
The year after he decides to return to Paris for one year and enrolled at the EcoleNationaled’Art at CergyPontoise.

He returned to the University of Massachusetts and finished his BFA in Painting in the spring of 1995.  In 1997, he enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago and receives his MFA in Painting and Drawing in 1999.
At the end of 2002, he decides to return to Cambodia for the first time. There he hadseveral painting exhibitions.  Then in 2004, he makes his first rattan sculpture, which opens a totally new approach to his art practice. Since then he has continued to make works using rattan, bamboo and metal wire.

Web Site : www.sopheappich.com

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Tales of Angkor is a group of Cambodian sculptors, who are participate in Cambodia’s aesthetic renewal.

From their studios come both works of religious inspiration destined for the temples and other cultural sites, as well as contemporary works of art born of the feelings and creativity of the artists.
They are also developing sculpture studios led by master sculptors to perpetuate the heritage of Khmer art.

In complete communion and respect for ancient traditions, and with a profound need for aesthetics, these master are transmitting their knowledge to young apprentices who come to work with them.

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The offspring of the union of a Cambodian, Songmala, and a Frenchman, Flavien Lambert, Tendance Khmère is a gallery featuring Cambodian silk :  raw silk, organza, and smooth silk.
It was in Paris, in the heart of St-Germain des Prés first of all, and then in Phnom Penh and Siem Reap that Flavien and Songmala began to weave their cocoon in color.  Tendance Khmère specializes in the creation of decorative articles.
Flavien, the designer, combines the elegance of traditional Khmer silk with other materials from the four corners of the earth.  An almost infinite range of cloth is turned into cushions, bedspreads, curtains, poufs, purses and table settings.  The color palette is immense, and crossing the threshold of Tendance Khmère opens up an whole new art of living.
Tendance Khmère has succeeded in refining, for contemporary Western tastes, the ancestral artisanship which is being reborn.

Email : contact@tendance-khmere.com

Web Site : www.tendance-khmere.fr

Born in Takeo in 1968, Theam grew up in Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge regime. In 1980, he moved to France where he feels he experienced a second birth. From 1989 to 1994, he studied visual art at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and obtained a diploma in applied arts and design at the Boulle School. He returned to Cambodia in 1995 and is one of the founding members of Artisans d’Angkor, serving as its artistic director from 1997 to 2008.

Né à Takeo en 1968, Theam grandit au Cambodge pendant le régime khmer rouge. Il quitte le Cambodge pour la France en 1980, ce fut une seconde naissance. De 1989 à 1994, il a étudié à l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris en arts visuels, et a obtenu un diplôme en arts appliqués et en design de l’Ecole Boulle. Il s’installe au Cambodge en 1995 ou il devient un des membres fondateurs des Artisans d’Angkor dont il est le directeur

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