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1. NAVIN ... means new in Hindi, Sanskrit, and most of the languages.. like word NEW ..starts with N of Navin
2. NAVIN are pronounced NAVEEN ....
3. There has been a Bollywood Star..... NAVIN NISCHAL

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The wild world of Navin

Multi-ethnic and multi-talented, Navin Rawanchaikul is impossible to classify, writes Clare Morin.

In the rapidly globalising art world, Navin Rawanchaikul represents the transcendence of geographical boundaries. Here is a Chang Mai-born artist of Hindu-Punjabi Pakistani heritage, who now has a Japanese wife (and permanent residence in Japan). His art, therefore, is all about finding communities.

Rapidly making a name for himself in international art circles, the Thai-based artist is drawing global acclaim for his humorous, cross-cultural art projects. For his first local exhibition at Tang Contemporary Art, the artist decided to use iconic Hong Kong films as the starting point.

Navinscope: Dim Sum Rider features paintings and a billboard that parody scenes from Hong Kong movies. However, in the place of film stars, Navin has painted in people from the Hong Kong art community. "I'm painting now," says the artist over a mobile phone from Bangkok, when we phone him at the start of July. "I have more than 50 people in this painting, from gallery [owners] to friends of my friends, collectors and critics. I know there are not so many people in the art scene in Hong Kong, but I would like to find the communities." Indeed, those going to the opening on Thursday 17 might actually see themselves.

Such interactive elements are the hallmark of this highly original artist. He first attracted the interest of regional curators in 1995 when he worked with a Bangkok cabbie to create the Navin Gallery Bangkok, a mobile gallery space in a taxi. In 2001, at the invitation of New York's PS1 Contemporary Art Center and the Public Art Fund, he brought the concept to New Yorkers. I Love Taxi was an expansive exhibition that included setting up 'Taxi cafes' in Madison Square Park and producing his own comic books based on real interviews with the city's cab drivers. Then he took on China.

In Beijing's Tang Contemporary Art, the artist exhibited paintings that satirised Chairman Mao's propaganda posters (and, more importantly, trends in contemporary Chinese art) by painting himself as Chairman Navin. He also created a fictitious Navin Party (check it out at www.navinparty.com). As the site amusingly explains, "Founded by a lonely artist in search of connection and community in 2006, the Navin Party seeks to make a space for Navins in this hectic, increasingly fragmented world." The artist even took to the streets to hand out free copies of a little red book entitled Navin's Quotations - until he got nabbed by the police and was held in custody until a curator arrived to free him.

The premise of the Hong Kong show, Navinscope: Dim Sum Rider, is to explore the concept of our cultural gatherings, in the spirit of meeting over food. "When I looked at Hong Kong, I saw that food is very important," he explains. "There is also the international side; the international art market is there. So I brought them together, the food culture and capitalism."

Audiences will be given the opportunity to meet the enigmatic artist at a talk he will give at the Kee Club on Wednesday 16, organised by the Asia Art Archive. There will be a screening of the film project Navins of Bollywood, a musical that parodies Indian movies, with Navin, of course, in the lead. He'll also be screening for the first time a commercial film commissioned by Volvo, which he made in Hong Kong in 2005. The work was based on his original Taxi Gallery concept. "It's very experimental. I drove the car with my colleague for three nights. We talked with people in the car. It was produced in Hong Kong, made in Hong Kong, but never shown in Hong Kong. It's going to be quite a fun talk." We wouldn't expect anything less from the world of Navin.

Navinscope: Dim Sum Rider opens on Thursday 17 at Tang Contemporary Art. B/F, Hollywood Centre, 233 Hollywood Rd, Sheung Wan, 2544 9918; www.tangcontemporary.com. Artist Talk, Wednesday 16, 6.30pm-8pm. For reservations contact info@aaa.org.hk.

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