Thai Art Exhibition

Exhibition : Walking on the Cloud
by Wanlop Han-San-Thia
on May 1 - 30, 2010
at The Rotunda Gallery, Bangkok

The thriving view of art in "Walking on the Cloud" Art Exhibition.

Wanlop Han-Sen-Thia, Lanna artist, is proud to present his two-dimensional semi-abstract paintings. This is his first solo exhibition and it features exceptional art pieces. They express the beauty inspired by his daily surroundings and also his travel experiences which have brought him peace and happiness. Wanlop is renowned for these inspiring and positive artworks. Wanlop expertly uses an acrylic colour-dotting on canvas technique to create the 2-dimensional paintings, which illustrate his feeling and attitude towards nature, such as forest, flowers, mountains and impressive architecture. Putting the small coloured dots together creates a soft and beautiful movement of colours and a positive feeling of peace and serene happiness which this good-natured artist hopes to share with interested members of the public.

Rotunda and Garden Galleries, Neilson Hays Gallery
195 Suriwongse Road, Bangkok,10500 Thailand
Open Tue / Thu / Sat 9.30-16.00
Wed 9.30-19.00 / Sun 9.30-14.00
Tel. (662)233 1731
Contact: 02 233-1731

Bangkok Art and Culture Centre cordially invite you to the opening of the Thai contemporary art exhibition "Be Skeptical" Friday 7 May 2010, 7th floor, Art Tour : 4.30 pm and Opening Reception : 6.30 pm, by Prof. Dr. Apinan Poshyananda Deputy Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Culture

MAKE NOISE, NOT WAR!!!
NOISE PERFORMANCE @ NOSPACE GALLERY
1 MAY 2010, 9PM-12PM, FREE ENTRY
KIJJAZ with guest
RICHARD NEAVE feat. BANK REDTWENTY
JIN MATUTAMTADA
AND MORE…



Nospace Gallery
21/108 Block D, Royal City Avenue (RCA)
Bangkok Thailand 10320
084-1341184, 02-6414040
info@nospacebkk.com
www.nospacebkk.com

While the domestic political turmoil is boiling hot to the point where the gallery has to temporary halt its operation in April, 100 Tonson Gallery has active programs in the month of May.

17th Sydney Biennale (12 May – August 1, 2010): Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook, the outstanding Thai artist’s “Two Planets” is selected to be the highlight of this important event by world-renowned Artistic Director David Elliott. The work will be featured as multi screened video at Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney.

In Bangkok at 100 Tonson Gallery: Utai Nopsiri will launch his second solo exhibition after the eye-opening show for domestic and international audience alike. LIBERATION will be on view for 6 weeks, starting May 6th. The opening reception will later be informed.

Hong Kong international art fair 2010 (ART HK 10) : (May 26-30, 2010) Once again, 100 Tonson is the first and only Thai gallery selected to partake in outstanding art fairs, after Dubai, Shanghai, Basel and many high profile venues, we will feature the works by top Thai artists: Chatchai Puipia and Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook at booth D05 in ART HK, along side major galleries from around the world. Paintings and sculptures by Puipia as well as photos from the Two Planets series by Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook will be on display. Visitors who are interested in getting VIP pass are welcome to contact us in advance.

We hope to welcome you all in respective venues.

For more information, please contact us at +6681 910 9440 or info@100tonsongallery.com

The Pikture Gallery proud to present The Artist@Work project
and an exhibition by our first artist in residence - Daniela Yohannes

" BEYOND VODOU " by Daniela Yohannes - painter of the invisible

Please join us for the Opening reception on Friday 23rd April at 7:00 pm.
*at Baan 47/1 : The Art Centre 2nd floor, (Sukhumvit 49/1)*

This exhibition will showcase a series of oil and acrylic paint work completed during Daniela's time at the artist@work studio.

"Beyond Vodou" is an insight to her mind, to her relationship with spirituality and her understanding of the world. It encompasses matters of the heart and this is her declaration of which world she wants in.

*The exhibition will be on displayed until the 14th of May 2010.*
*The Pikture Gallery is opened Tuesday to Sunday 10 am. - 7 pm.*

For more information please contact
The Pikture Gallery art@thepikturegallery.com
or call +66 2 662 8359,
alternatively please visit
http://artistatworkbkk.blogspot.com
www.thepikturegallery.com

Exhibition : Oud Oud
by Chainarong Kongklin
on June 5 - July 4, 2010
at Whitespace Gallery, Bangkok




Pig is an animal that people have seen it. Every single part of its body can be ingredients.
Pig is more than to be food consumption but its specific physical can mean a fertile.
When I was young I had a chance to be as close with this versatile animal as intimate. This fine art I tended to use pig as a symbol in order to make the audiences feel the different sides of pig that worth than just for consumption.



Whitespace Gallery, Room #260, 2nd Floor, Lido Building, Siam Square Soi 3, Rama 1 Road,
Pathumwan, Bangkok 10330. tu we th fr 13:00 - 19:00 pm sa su 11.30 - 20.00 or by appointment.
+66(0) 2252 2900, www.whitesp-ce.com, gallery@whitesp-ce.com



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''All About Her'' By Bussaraporn Thongchai

From May 25th to June 30th, 2010

At ARDEL?s Third Place Gallery (Sukhumvit 55, Thonglor soi 10)

''The connection between femininity and I is the surrender to the so-call social norms and at the same time the ability to be disobedient to it''

When personal and public affairs have become completely different issues, art is the only thing that helps shorten the distance and keep them close together.

The first solo exhibition by a young promising talent Bussarapong Thongchai, ''All About Her'' is the center of every story that brought to the artist the consolation for life throughout the whole process of aesthetic creation, thinking and re-thinking. While art and life decide to walk together, femininity has become an additional part that helps create the difference and adds more contents to her life in which can be seen from her artworks. Therefore, there are various feelings and emotions even the completely opposite side for example, tenderness and strength, covering and uncovering or even surrender and protest.

ARDEL's Third Place Gallery requests for your support to kindly promote the upcoming exhibition.




For further information, please contact ARDEL Gallery : 02-422-2092, 084-772-2887 Fax: 02-422-2091
Tuesday-Saturday: 10:30~19:00 hrs., Sunday: 10:30~17:30 hrs. (Closed on Monday)
ARDEL Gallery will be closed during Songkran festival from April 12 to 16 2010

Abstracted Nature
by Mr. Kaz Orii
Term Friday 21st of May to Saturday 12th of June 2010
Opening 18:30 Friday 21st of May 2010

Presided over by
Mr. Katsumi Kakazu
Director of the Japan Foundation, Bangkok and Southeast Asian Bureau Director General of the Japan Foundation

     Many shun contemporary art because they find it difficult to understand. However, in terms of both colour and shape, Kaz Orii’s paintings are somehow warm and thereby easier to become intimate with. Perhaps this is because Orii’s artwork is based upon his interactions with nature through farm work that he does co-currently with his art. Orii’s experience of nature while
handling the earth has led to a wonder that comes from life growing out of a seed and the variance dependant upon temperatures and humidity and Japan’s four seasons. This careful observation of nature including his awe, sense of being moved, and joy, has unexpectedly nurtured the style with which he faces the canvas. His recent interest is the incredible energy apparent in specific moments – like the calm before a storm, or in a rainbow after the rain. These expressions of nature are fascinating because they closely correlate with human emotions.

     Orii was found by Akko Art Gallery’s Tokyo representative and curator Yukio Ogushi who chose him to be in Bridge 2007, the second biennale Japanese Contemporary group exhibition held at Akko Art Gallery Bangkok, Thailand. The high standard used in choosing the artists by curator, Yukio Ogushi and artist-curator Kato Shojiro led to admiration among both art critics and the
media.

      Akko Art Gallery therefore arranged to present Kaz Orii for his first solo exhibition in Asia outside of Japan. Images Breakdown in 2008. This was very well received and led to additional numerous solo exhibitions within a year in Singapore, Poland and Portugal. Abstracted Nature is Orii’s second solo exhibition at Akko Art Gallery in 2010. Please do find colours and shapes that you like within his paintings and spend some time with a special piece and see what the painting will say to you.

AKKO ART GALLERY
919/1 Sukhumvit Main Road, Between Soi 49 & 51
Near the Soi 49 Bus Stop, Opposite the Rex Hotel
BTS SKY TRAIN Tong Lor Station , Exit No.1, walk West 2 blocks
Gallery Hours Mon-Sat. 10:00 – 19:00: Please walk in
Sundays and after hours: By appointment only
Persons to contact Atsuko Suzuki Davies Petula Masako Davies

Shadow Play - Dharma
Artist: Chusak Srikwan
Date: April 27, 2010 - May 30, 2010
Gallery: ARDEL Gallery of Modern Art

“Shadow play” is a kind of the local play in the southern part of Thailand. It consists of many art techniques in which have been widely known and developed along with the lifestyle of local people. The performance uses the local dialect and the story line that parts of it was developed from the Buddhist teachings helps acknowledge people in a less serious yet very nourishing way. Chusak Srikwan, an emerging artist from Songkhla, is inspired by this teaching approach and therefore creates the exhibition “Shadow Play – Dharma” by applying together his carving skill on leather and performing the shadow figures.



“Shadow Play – Dharma” is the combination of the Jataka tales which consists of Buddhist doctrines and the expression that symbolically appears through the shadow figures or in the form of Dharma puzzle. The intention here is to pass on the wisdom in order to encourage the fine lifestyle of Buddhist which will help bring peacefulness to people and the society.




Open hour:
Tue-Sat: 10.30 am -7.00 pm
Sun: 10.30 am - 5.30 pm
(Closed on Monday)
Address: 99/45 moo. 18 Km 10.5 Boromrachonanee Road,
Salathammasob, Taveewattana, Bangkok 10170
Tel: +66 2422 2092
Fax: +66 2422 2091
e-mail:
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LOWWRONG: (UN) COVER

By Jitsing Somboon and Taweesak Srithongdee

From April 22,- June 25, 2010 (Opening reception on May 11, 2010: 6.00 PM)

At Creative House BANGKOK inspired by TOYOTA.

L floor, Interchange Building, Asok, Bangkok

Such topic is so strikingly that we, Theory11 ;the group formed by eleven graduate students of Art Theory Department, Faculty of Painting, Sculpture and Printing, Silpakorn University. Lowwrong: (UN) Cover By Jitsing Somboon and Taweesak Srithongdee features various mediums like painting, sculpture, mixed media, photography, moving pictures (VDO), and performance. The works of both artists will be site-specific and will convey our concept of the overwhelming pop culture, the current social mainstream. Their works will then support our will to encourage the audience, through art, to introspect. Wishfully they could harmonize such two distinctive ways; keeping up outward appearance and maintaining spiritual essence. Lowwrong: (UN) Cover will be held at Creative House BANGKOK inspired by Toyota, the open space for anyone to express their creativity in any field.

For further information, kindly contact creative house BANGKOK inspired by TOYOTA: 02-611-2798-9 or contact Theory¹¹: 08-1916-8206,08-1582-5551

100 Tonson Gallery is pleased to announce the opportunity to view the final round of “Ganesh” the contemporary performance by Pichet Klunchun on Wednesday April 21st, 2010 at 7 pm at 100 Tonson gallery. This one hour show had captured many hearts and we have welcome many repeated viewers in the past 3 weeks of performance. It was our honor to welcome national artist of Thailand, Archarn Inson Wongsam who was among the first phone calls to book the tickets along with the Ambassador of the Netherlands and his wife, art critics, writers and outstanding visual artists.




Ticket is 1000 baht (700 for students) with complimentary refreshments and canapés by PLAZA ATHENEE BANGKOK, A ROYAL MERIDIEN

Please come early to enjoy the servings (6pm onwards), once the performance starts, food and entry will not be allowed. Seats are limited and this is the final round of rare opportunity to view Pichet Klunchun, we hope you would not miss it. Ticket reservation or more information, please contact Q at +6681 910 9440 or email: info@100tonsongallery.com

This is a part of “Prism” exhibition, which is the show where space emerges from disciplinary encounter (performing arts and visual arts) and the parallel narratives. With his photograph book and installation, Kornkrit Jianpinidnan’s “The House No.1” transforms 100 Tonson Gallery into a space in-between the world of Thai traditional literature and the world of reality for Pichet Klunchun to perform “Ganesh” which is not simply telling a story about his losing a tusk, but is really a reflection of what we are facing in our present society. In our world there are distortions, concealing of facts and addiction to power. Curated by Thanavi Chotpradit, the exhibition will be on view until this Sunday April 25, 2010.

Attachment: selected reviews of Prism exhibition,
- http://blog.nationmultimedia.com/danceandtheatre/2010/04/08/entry-1 The Nation
- http://www.100tonsongallery.com/newsAndReviewsDetail.asp?newsID=105 (via attachment)
The Magazine, Bangkok Post by Steven Pettifor
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo2QNHxWXW0 Artscene TV

Best Wishes,
100 Tonson Gallery
Bangkok Thailand

Photo Exhibition : “Women with Disabilities: Inspiration, Grace and Value”
by Aphiluck Puangkaew
on May 18 - 28, 2010
at Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok

Photo Exhibition “Women with Disabilities: Inspiration, Grace and Value”

Disabled Peoples’ International- Asia Pacific under the sponsorship of the Institute of Health for People with Disability.

A collection of 50 black & white photos by independent and activist photographer Aphiluck Puangkaew who volunteers to tell the stories of 25 women with disabilities from various walks of life and physical challenges. This exhibition shows the unspoken and forgotten fate of women with disabilities who, despite barriers and discrimination in society, strive to succeed and contribute as agent of change, creator and giver in Thai society.

Exhibition : Kill Yr Idols
by Andrew Jones
on May 8 - 30, 2010
at Nospace Gallery, Bangkok

Kill Yr Idols by Andrew Jones
May 8 - 30, 2010 @ Nospace Gallery
Opening Night: Saturday 8 May 2010, 7-10pm

An art exhibition about idolatry, identification, and fake blood.
In Kill Yr Idols the lyrics of a Sonic Youth song are used both for irony and commentary on a wide range of subjects including heroes both local and international and the people that ultimately identify with in order to comprise ourselves.

Andrew Jones is a former music writer and promoter. He was one of the founders of Push a night for progressive and experimental electronica and hip-hop in Orlando, Florida. He has also written for publications such as Xlr8r, Skyscraper, The Orlando Weekly, Sleazenation, The Wire, and others. Additionally, Andrew also started the LNF Pool a monthly night for free improviser that tied local disco djs to free jazz bassists and he wrote software in Supercollider to improvise with them. Mr. Jones has also done a few little art pieces over the years including a small piece called 7 Incomplete Improvisations for Free Manifesta and wrote some copy for guydebord.com by Miltos Manetas. Working as a critic he became more aware of the various vocabularies the arts use for expression and his work as music critic became a sharpened analytical tool that frequently revealed the nostalgiac underpinnings of late nineties pop music and electronica. Since then he's worked on several electronic projects including an album with Tom Smith and has devised a few conceptual pieces here there and the occasional short story.

Nospace Gallery
21/108 Block D, Royal City Avenue (RCA)
Bangkok Thailand 10320
02-6414040
info@nospacebkk.com
http://www.nospacebkk.com

Exhibition : The Post-Superhumanity
by Kosit Juntaratip
on April 23 - May 23, 2010
at Angkrit Gallery, Chiangrai.




THE POST-SUPERHUMANITY
I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and
I consider ethics to be an exclusively human
concern with no superhuman authority
behind it. Albert Einstein

KOSIT JUNTARATIP
23 APRIL 2010 - 23 MAY 2010
meeting the post-superhuman | event: artist talk and critics
Friday 23 April 2010 at 07:00 pm

angkritgallery is proud to present the artist's first ChiangRai exhibition THE POST-SUPERHUMANITY,. This show features a new body of work.
On view through May 23, the exhibition including a large-scale mixed media, painting and sculpture never-before-seen.

Kosit Juntaratip Born in 1971 in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Multi-media / performance artist. Lives and works in Chiang Mai. Studied Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Chiang Mai University from 1989-1993. From 1997-2003 Studied Audiovisual Media (Media Art) at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne and Media Arts / Photography at the Academy of Visual Art in Leipzig Germany. His artistic work includes painting / drawing, performances, installations, video, computer work, photography and film provoked with Thai contemporary art history. Has had a number of group and individual exhibitions since 1992-present. In 1994 he marriages with sex doll (Lily Ovary) in Chiang Mai First Church on Valentine's day, and in the end of the year he took out his blood in his performance and post photography called ?Kosit's Blood in Alphabet of LOVE? and ?HAPPY BIRTHDAY 24, 1994? at Ideal Art Gallery in Bangkok. During that times he was one of founder the social events (Chiang Mai Social Installation and Week of Suffering) with Uthit Atimana, Mitra Jai-Inn and Navin Rawanchaikul. In 1997 the year before he left to Germany, he worked in collaboration with Rirkrit Tiravanitja and Navin Rawanchaikul to bring Chiang Mai residents cross in hybridity culture at Tapae Gate, Chiang Mai. Their works includes ?Love Dancing Party?, Untitled (Slide Pork Salad Cooking) and ?Mu-Hao-Look-Kao-Nung? (we are the son of sticky rice). During six years in Germany he experiments many concept with digital / analog process, recently he has his solo exhibition called KISS at BUG in Bangkok. In Chiang Mai he organizes projects with his students called ?Quark the experimental?. Since 2004 Kosit Juntaratip has been Lecturer of Media Art at the Media Arts and Design, Chiang Mai University.

Between Spaces and Look – Overlook
At The Art Center, Center of Academic Resources, Chulalongkorn University
April 9 – May 15, 2010
Opening reception: Friday April 23, 2010, 6-8pm
“Through the eyes of others, we see the world differently.”



In the face of globalisation where the world has become smaller and smaller, the void inside each human's heart has actually expanded. In our daily life, we all keep building up a wall to create a personal space and simply live within the small world we have created.

This time around, The Art Center would like to introduce two exhibitions by two young artists that challenge the viewers about their notion of space. These exhibitions are two small worlds, presented through different perspectives, yet originating from the same society the artists and curators live in. Their intention is to allow the viewers to get to know the worlds other than their own and start to see their own world differently. Maybe, we'll then realise that what we're looking for in our own world, all the answers we're trying to get, can actually be found in other people's worlds, if we care to look at them


Between Spaces
Artists: Jackkrit Anantakul and Chawnchom Boonmegurdsup

Curator: Narongsak Nilkhet

Everybody craves for a private space. But in today's living conditions, especially with all the modern technologies that give us convenience that we're so attached to, it's impossible to disconnect ourselves from a public space. The notion of the two spaces has become ambiguous and no one can really distinguish one from the other. Vising Between Spaces will be a challenge for people who try to define private and public spaces.

Look – Overlook
An art project to heighten awareness
Artist: Jedsada Tangstrakulwong
Curator: Pichaya Piyassapan

We live our daily life depending on our sight and the preconceived belief of the world. But sometimes, our mind can trick us to believe we have seen things that we might have never really looked at. So, wouldn't it be better to actually start noticing the world around us carefully, learning its details, and seeing it for what it truly is.

*At present, The Art Center is open Monday to Friday, 9am-4pm and closed on Saturdays. However, if you would like to visit us and check the dates and time of our gallery hours, please call 02-218-2965.

**Closed dates in April starting from April 9: The Art Center will be closed April 13-17 for the Songkran Festival. We will open again on April 19.


For more information, please contact:
Siriwat Pokrajen (PR Officer)
Tel: 081-629-0457, email: siriwatpokrajen@yahoo.com, info.artcenterchula@gmail.com



The Art Center
7th Fl, Center of Academic Resources, Chulalongkorn University
Phyathai Rd, Pathumwan, Bangkok 10330
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Email: info.artcenterchula@gmail.com
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Closed on Sunday & Public Holidays

SYMBIOSIS
By Alongkorn Lauwattana
22 June 2010
Opening Reception: Thursday ,22 June 2010, 7pm @Galerie N on Withayu Rd.

SYMBIOSIS is the latest exhibition by the well- respected artist Alongkorn Lauwatthana. Rooted in Buddhist thoughts, his works reflect the maturation of his beliefs and as depicted in his earlier projects, he seeks to explore and convey the message that everything in the world is all ONE, interconnected and that everything depends upon and coexists with each other. Light needs darkness, flowers needs bees… all mankind belong into a brotherhood, where man and woman become one, where they complete and enhance each other. Man is light; woman is shadow and they merge together to complement each other in opposite ways. Within humans the eyes, ears, nose, mouth, tongue, body and spirit all perform different functions, yet these function when tied together contribute to make us human… our strength and weakness are intertwined…if we look close we’ll see that which we thought was disparate actually create harmony and balance in the world in which we live.

In this series of work, the artist experiences his thoughts through vivid forms and colours that intertwine with all the elements; they show the inseparable relationship of things in the world.
“Life and the world are cyclical, nothing is permanent, there is rise and fall, birth and sickness, glory and defeat… and the laws of nature that keep everything in balance.”

For more information, please call 02 252 1592 or 086 601 7111 (Sai)
Open Tuesday – Sunday 10.00 – 19.00 (except Monday)
Galerie N is located on Wireless Road across from Lumpini Park
(300 m. from Lumpini Metro Station exit 3 and 1.5 km. from Ploenchit BTS Station)

Exhibition : River of Silence
by Lancelott, Tawatchai Somkong, Preecha Pun-Klum
on April 2 - 30, 2010
at The National Gallery, Chao-Fah Rd., Bangkok







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