Showing posts with label Thavibu Gallery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thavibu Gallery. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

U LUN GYWE - Feasting The Female Form

U LUN GYWE - Feasting The Female Form

Book Launch and Art Exhibition

Book Launch: June 18 at 5 pm

Exhibition Dates: June 18 - July 16
Opening on June 18 at 5 pm
U Lun Gywe is unfortunately too old and frail to travel. Shireen Naziree will be present to sign the book and talk about
the art works.

Art Exhibition
With an artistic practice that spans more than fifty years, eighty year old U Lun Gywe is regarded as Burma's most prominent master painter and one of Southeast Asia's most important senior artists. U Lun Gywe's figurative works of Burmese women are a celebration of their inherent beauty and grace, which he renders through his unique Impressionist style of painting that is a combination of orientalist discipline and western artistic practices. His paintings of dancers and village women, rendered with a vibrant palette and sweeping brushstrokes, are filled with movement - a contrast to his quiet sketches of nudes that aptly reflect his western art training.

Book Launch
Commemorating the more than fifty year artistic career of 80 year old U Lun Gywe – Thavibu Gallery is launching a limited edition coffee table book “Feasting the Female Form” in conjunction with a specially curated exhibition of recent figurative works by the artist. The text is written by the international art historian and curator Shireen Naziree.

This is a very high quality limited edition book, printed in 500 numbered copies. It comes in a boxed edition and each book contains the Giclée art print Nude with Apple - printed on archival paper, signed by the artist U Lun Gywe, and numbered in the same edition as the book.

The book was written and produced in Malaysia and Thailand, and printed by a Singapore company on imported archival paper from Japan.


THAVIBU GALLERY
The Silom Galleria Building,
Suite 308, 919/1 Silom Rd.
Bangkok 10500
Tel +66 (0) 266 5454
For direction kindly see the map

Friday, February 25, 2011

Hidden Flowers by Nguyen Thi Chau Giang, Vietnam



Art Exhibition: Hidden Flowers
Artist: Nguyen Thi Chau Giang, Vietnam
Dates: 23 April – 14 May 2011
Venue: Thavibu Gallery
Curator: Shireen Naziree

Open: Monday – Saturday: 11:00 – 19:00


Thavibu Gallery is pleased to present the art exhibition Hidden Flowers with silk paintings by the female Vietnamese artist Nguyen Thi Chau Giang. In Hidden Flowers, her first solo show since 2004, Nguyen Thi Chau Giang looks back to her Vietnamese artistic roots as she explores the formal issues of traditional silk painting. In constructing her visual narratives, Giang draws on sources both classic and contemporary as she mediates on the typical Vietnamese feminine
archetype. Well versed in feminist theories that impact contemporary Vietnamese society, she resists infiltrating her work with the seduction of poetic embellishments as she circumvents typical romantic narratives commonly associated with Vietnamese silk painting.



Such restraint pays off in a body of work that comprises 17 paintings in which Giang explores the contradictions Vietnamese women endure within Vietnam’s advancing contemporary social environment. All of these works explore the fragility of relationships and emotions with a sensitive eye, and they are engaging for that reason. But their formal deftness is also remarkable, as is the richness of their pictorial nuance, which amplifies the psychological interest of the works without drifting into melodrama.



Silk paintings originated in China, and a handful of Vietnamese artists have adopted the art form to produce compelling contemporary art works.

Nguyen Thi Chau Giang is 35 years old, was born in Hanoi and lives in Ho Chi Minh City where she graduated with a Bachelor in Fine Arts. She has participated in several exhibitions internationally, such as in Singapore, Hong Kong, Korea, Australia, Netherlands, Germany, United Kingdom and the USA, including a solo show at the Columbia University, New York. Her works are found in the museum collections of Singapore Art Museum and The Hermitage, St Petersburg.

Thavibu Gallery
The Silom Galleria Building, 3rd Fl.
Suite 308, 919/1 Silom Rd.
Bangkok 10500, Thailand
Tel. (66 2) 266 5454
Fax. (66 2) 266 5455
E-mail: info@thavibu.com

Thursday, February 17, 2011

FREEDOM & JUSTICE? by Jittagarn Kaewtinkoy

FREEDOM & JUSTICE?
19 February - 12 March
by Jittagarn Kaewtinkoy (Thailand)

You are kindly invited for the opening of the exhibition on Saturday 19th Feb 2011 at 17:00 (5 pm)
at Thavibu Gallery

n the forthcoming exhibition, Jittagarn Kaewtinkoy has produced a series of portraits and paintings of well known politicians and of iconic personalities with the intent to explore their sense of commitment towards freedom and justice. It turns out that they often fall into two categories – good and bad. As a person committed to freedom, justice and transparency himself, the artist questions his subjects' intentions and aspirations and whether they are sincere or exploit their positions as leaders and role models.

Jittagarn Kaewtinkoy is 32 years old and is known for his ironic paintings of people in power. He graduated from Rajamonkol University in 2001 and has participated in several exhibitions in Thailand and also in the USA (2010).


Introduction by Steven Pettifor:
Unsurprisingly, Thailand’s artists tend to become more politicised in the wake of dramatic social upheavals and intermittent military interventions. During the student led demonstrations and subsequent crackdowns of 1973 and 1976, artists Pratuang Emjaroen and Prasong Luemuang led the dissenting charge, while after the bloody coup of 1992 it was Vasan Sitthiket along with Chumpon Apisuk and the Ukabat (fireball) performance artists who were quick to voice their hostility to the military takeover.

Thailand’s most recent military putsch of 2006 once again roused artists to visualise interpretations upon the consequential dilemmas facing Thai society. Yet aside from the firebrand Vasan and critical photographer Manit Sriwanichpoom, there have been few overtly political artists to commentate on the entrenched cronyism and corruption that have become the mainstay of Thai politics.

To the neutral observer, Thailand has never appeared a more divided country. This growing disharmony has begun registering and permeating the art of emerging artists, including 32-year-old painter Jittagarn Kaewtinkoy.


THAVIBU GALLERY
The Silom Galleria Building,
Suite 308, 919/1 Silom Rd.
Bangkok 10500
Tel +66 (0) 266 5454
For direction kindly see the map

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Stories Out of Burma



Art Exhibition: Stories Out of Burma
Artist: Htein Lin (London) and Chaw Ei Thein (New York), Burmese
Curator: Shireen Naziree
Dates: 13 November – 4 December, 2010
Venue: Thavibu Gallery
Open: Monday – Saturday: 11:00 – 19:00

Both Chaw Ei Thein and Htein Lin are recognised as Burma’s most profiled international artists. Chaw Ei Thein resides and has her artistic practice in New York and Htein Lin works and lives in London. STORIES OUT OF BURMA are their individual artistic dialogues that relates to their lives as artists in the Diaspora. Despite distances and time, Htein Lin and Chaw Ei Thein share a common ground both personally as artists and friends that relate prolifically to their shared personal histories in Burma.

In STORIES OUT OF BURMA, Chaw Ei Thein relates her personal physical and emotional struggles as a Burmese woman and as an artist living in New York. But her most poignant expressions relate to her comparative studies between her homeland and New York. Her series of paintings relate to her transient status and her ongoing efforts to bring her artistic voice to the forefront. In her accompanying video work, Chaw lends an eloquent uncertainty to the possibilities and politics of images and their circulation through space and time as she acknowledges the conflicts between her two worlds.














Htein Lin’s series of paintings for STORIES OUT OF BURMA offer intimate views of issues that are vital to his personal world as threads of Burma continue to remain an integral part of his world. Despite having digested a very cosmopolitan outlook and developed a broad image both as a painter and as a conceptual artist, Buddhism remains a key patent both to his personal self and his art. The realization of this is defined both in his paintings and in his performance piece specifically choreographed and produced for STORIES OUT OF BURMA whereby he aims to involve the viewer an opportunity to share his Burmese heritage.

Thavibu Gallery
The Silom Galleria Building, 3rd Fl.
Suite 308, 919/1 Silom Rd.
Bangkok 10500, Thailand
Tel. (66 2) 266 5454
Fax. (66 2) 266 5455
E-mail: info@thavibu.com

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Shell (Shocked) by Rattana Salee




Art Exhibition: Shell (Shocked)
Artist: Rattana Salee
Dates: 23 October – 20 November, 2010
Venue: 3D@Thavibu

Thavibu Gallery will once again be staging an art exhibition, "SHELL
(SHOCKED)", by Thai emerging artist, Rattana Salee, from October 23 - November 2010 in Suite 307.




















Thavibu Gallery is pleased to present the art exhibition Shell (Shocked) with new three-dimensional works by Rattana Salee. Marking her debut solo exhibition, the atmospheric sculptural installation comprises metal and plaster architectural structures that reflect the private and communal complexities of urban living.

Evidence of supposed progress, the Thai capital has become one vast construction site. The builder’s raucous rattle of drill and hammer shakes almost every street and soi in the city, while inhabitants seek mental and spiritual solace in the claustrophobic rectangular stacks they call home. Within such domestic confines occupants establish individual expressions as refuge, yet the world beyond continues to infiltrate.

Attempting a personal connection with the geographic, social, and psychological framework of the cityscape, Rattana’s haunting sculpted frames evoke the hundreds of decaying, incomplete towers that still pierce the capital’s skyline, residues of economic fallout from the 1997 financial crisis. Skeletons to human abandon, her lineal steel carcasses are also potent epitaphs to Bangkok’s recent street turmoil, which left burnt down buildings as disturbing reminders to the fragility of an expanding megalopolis.

Having participated in several domestic group exhibitions, 28-year-old Rattana is currently studying an MFA in Sculpture at Silpakorn Univeristy.

Shell (Shocked) is the sixth exhibition in the yearlong project, 3D@Thavibu, highlighting three-dimensional art in Suite 307 of Thavibu Gallery. Curated by Steven Pettifor, 3D@Thavibu presents a series of exhibitions featuring established and emergent Thai and international artists

Thavibu Gallery
The Silom Galleria, 3rd Floor
Suite 308, 919/1 Silom Road
Bangkok 10500, Thailand
Tel.: (662) 266-5454
Fax.: (662) 266-5455
Mob.: (6689) 812-8577
Email: heide@thavibu.com

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Camouflage by Jirapat Tatsanasomboon



Thavibu Gallery is pleased to present the art exhibition Camouflage with new paintings by the Thai artist Jirapat Tatsanasomboon on 18 September - 10 October, 2010.

Jirapat is well known for applying a pop-art style to his paintings which often feature interactions between the East-West and Modern-Traditional. He appropriates images from well-known European masterpieces and inserts readily identifiable Thai iconography as a commentary on Thai society by re-interpreting the celebrated master paintings and using them as 'camouflage'.

















Jirapat Tatsanasomboon was born in 1971 in Samut Prakarn and completed his Master Degree at Silapakorn University in 1999.

Jirapat is well known for applying a pop-art style to his paintings which often feature interactions between the East-West and Modern-Traditional. He appropriates images from well-known European masterpieces and inserts readily identifiable Thai iconography as a commentary on Thai society by re-interpreting the celebrated master paintings and using them as 'camouflage'. His heroes are depicted in a distinctive Thai setting and are often seen interacting with traditional Thai heroes and mythical figures, most of whom are characters in the Ramakien (Ramayana). Jirapat also takes on well known icons spanning from old master paintings to stars in the entertainment industry and American superheroes and puts them in a new, Thai context. Jirapat has participated in several art shows in Thailand and also in Korea (2003), USA (NYC, 2006), Singapore (2008), China (Olympics, 2008), India (2009), Monaco (2010) and Argentina (2010).

Exhibition on 18 Sept - 10 Oct, 2010
at Thavibu Gallery











Thavibu Gallery
The Silom Galleria Building, 3rd Floor
Suite 308, 919/1 Silom Rd., Bangkok, Thailand
Tel. (662) 266 5454 Fax. (662) 266 5455
Tue-Sat 11.00-19.00 / Sun 12.00-18.00
E-mail: info@thavibu.com
www.thavibu.com

see more other works : http://www.thavibu.com/thailand/jirapat_tatsanasomboon/THA2200.htm

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Breed by Chatchawan Amsomkid




Thavibu Gallery is pleased to present the art exhibition Breed with new three-dimensional works by Chatchawan Amsomkid. Marking his debut solo exhibition, the sculptural installation comprises resin-moulded canines performing acrobatics that carry overtones to life’s daily circus.

Man’s best friend, the dog is a prevalent and unavoidable character to Thai life. Found roaming stray on any street, or left out to guard an owner’s territory, pooches serve as both devoted companions and beasts of burden. Trained to perform on cue, boutique attired, and displayed in photo albums, in contemporary society where child rearing has become optional rather than compulsive, dogs have supplanted as our surrogate offspring.






















Defined by breeding and distinctive behavioural traits, particular canine characteristics provide convenient metaphors to human personalities. The feral street dog could be analogical to the poor and down trodden, while pampered imported toy dogs are characteristic of Bangkok’s indulged urbanites. Against the current political and social backdrop, where class distinctions and disparities of wealth have been pushed to the fore, Chatchawan’s bestial parodies are extremely pertinent to the heightened societal discord.

Having studied both a BFA and MFA in Sculpture at King Mongkut Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Chatchawan currently teaches sculpture at the same institute. He has featured in several group exhibitions, as well as picking up the bronze (2007, 2009) and silver prizes (2008) in the Mixed Media category of the annual National Exhibition of Art.

Breed is the fifth exhibition in the yearlong project, 3D@Thavibu, highlighting three-dimensional art in Suite 307 of Thavibu Gallery. Curated by Steven Pettifor, 3D@Thavibu presents a series of exhibitions featuring established and emergent Thai and international artists.

Part of the proceeds (20 %) from sales will be donated to the SCAD (Soi Cats and Dogs Organisation).

THAVIBU GALLERY
The Silom Galleria Building,
Suite 308, 919/1 Silom Rd.
Bangkok 10500
Tel (662) 266 5454 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (662) 266 5454 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
Fax (662) 266 5455

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Friday, July 2, 2010

Body Language (II) by Angkana Kongpetch



Body Language (II)
Artist: Angkana Kongpetch, Thailand
Dates: July 10 – August 21, Opens: Saturday 10th July at 5 pm
Venue: 3D @ Thavibu

Open: Monday – Saturday: 11:00 – 19:00

Thavibu Gallery is pleased to present the two-part art exhibition Body Language I & II with new three-dimensional works by artists Pieng-or Pinpart and Angkana Kongpetch. Marking their debut solo exhibitions, this two-stage exhibition highlights young female artists who produce metal sculptures using the human body as a metaphor for individual themes. Aside from commonalities in gender, age, and aesthetics, both artists affirm the importance for physical and spiritual balance in our existence.

In the first part, Body Language (I) Pieng-or Pinpart moulds bronze and brass sculptures that visualize the alternating bouts of extreme depression and mania she suffers through her debilitating bipolar disorder. Her bent, beaten, and torn body frames are a graphic expression of her fluctuating range of emotions, the medication used to control the illness, and the physical toll that her body and mind endure. Her battered forms are testament to her creative resilience and her resolve to bring greater stability to her life. Pieng-or is currently studying for her BA in Fine Art at King Mongkut Institute of Technology Latkrabang.

In this second part of the exhibition, Body Language II, Angkana Kongpetch focuses upon the human form to examine Buddhist notions of time and mortality. Looking at the cycle of life from birth to death, Angkana’s delicate wiry skeletal forms explore the transitory nature of existence and how we become disabled by the possessions and relationships we continuously accumulate. Her veinal torsos indicate human frailty as well as the need for accountability in the decisions and actions we take throughout our brief time on this planet. Angkana is currently studying for her MA in Fine Art at Silpakorn University.



Body Language I & II are the third and fourth exhibitions in the year-long project, 3D @ Thavibu, highlighting three-dimensional art in Suite 307 of Thavibu Gallery. Curated by Steven Pettifor, 3D @ Thavibu will present a series of exhibitions featuring established and emergent Thai and international artists.

Thavibu Gallery
The Silom Galleria, 3rd Floor
Suite 308, 919/1 Silom Road
Bangkok 10500, Thailand
Tel.: (662) 266-5454
Fax.: (662) 266-5455
Mob.: (6689) 812-8577
Email: heide@thavibu.com

Thursday, June 24, 2010

ARTECLASICA'10 by Vasan Sitthiket, Thaweesak Srithongdee, Jirapat Tatsanasomboon, Therdkiat Wangwatcharakul


Art Exhibition: ARTECLASICA'10
Artist: Vasan Sitthiket, Thaweesak Srithongdee, Jirapat Tatsanasomboon, Therdkiat Wangwatcharakul
Dates: 14 – 19 July, 2010
Venue: Costa Salguero Convention Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina


Thavibu Gallery was invited to present Thai contemporary art under the banner 'Meeting Cultures' at the ARTECLASICA'10 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.The event will run from July 14-19, 2010.

Thavibu will present works by well known Thai artists Vasan Sitthiket,Thaweesak Srithongdee, Jirapat Tatsanasomboon, and Therdkiat Wangwatcharakul.



Vasan Sitthiket is 53 years old and one of Thailand's most acclaimed artists. He is known as a social critic, and most of his works address problems within contemporary Thai and international societies, such as the exploitation of the poor by the rich as well as the corruption among politicians and bureaucrats. He also points his finger to the rest of the 'capitalist world. Vasan has participated in numerous exhibitions and projects in Thailand and abroad, including the Venice Biennale (Italy, 2003).

Thaweesak Srithongdee is 40 years old and a graduated from Silapakorn University. His style echoes the influence of Surrealism and Pop Art. Thaweesak is a keen observer of people, their physical and mental characteristics, and his works are often about the need for self-expression. It is also about freedom from society's rules and the status quo of the real world we live in. Thaweesak has participated in several exhibitions in Thailand, and abroad such as in Netherlands, Germany, Great Britain, Singapore, Japan, and Indonesia. He recently participated in the Fukuoka Triennale and in the Jakarta Biennale.

Jirapat Tatsanasomboon is 39 years old, a graduate from Silapakorn University and one of Thailand’s most talented and upcoming artists. He has participated in several exhibitions in Thailand and also in Korea, USA, Singapore, India, and Monaco. Jirapat applies a pop-art style to his paintings and plays around with well known images and icons of western art and transforms these well known icons by changing their appearances and putting them in a new and alien Thai setting. The interaction between the Thai and western characters may be viewed as symbolizing interactions at various levels: east vs west and modern vs traditional.

Therdkiat Wangwatcharakul is 39 years old and a graduate from Silapakorn University. He paints with oil on aluminium sheets or on canvas. The use of aluminium makes his play with light and shadow unique. Typical to Therdkiat’s spatially sensitive compositions are his minimal urban-scapes. He also harnesses staining techniques that imbue his canvases with the same metallic veneer of his mainstay aluminium surfaces, Therdkiat is a master at evoking the loneliness of the big city. Therdkiat has participated in several exhibitions in Thailand, as well as in Singapore, Japan, the Netherlands, Korea, Spain, and the USA. He was awarded the Jurors' Choice Prize in the ASEAN Art Awards.


Thavibu Gallery
The Silom Galleria, 3rd Floor
Suite 308, 919/1 Silom Road
Bangkok 10500, Thailand
Tel.: (662) 266-5454
Fax.: (662) 266-5455
Mob.: (6689) 812-8577
Email: heide@thavibu.com

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Party: Body Language (i) by Pieng-or Pinpart



Thavibu Gallery is pleased to present the art exhibition Body Language (I) with brass and bronze sculptures by the young and talented Thai artist Pieng-or Pinpart on 22 May - 3 July, 2010.

Pieng-or Pinpart’s life is marked by her struggle to deal with the physical and emotional symptoms of being bipolar. In Body Language I Pieng-or moulds bronze and brass sculptures that visualize the alternating bouts of extreme depression and mania she suffers through the debilitating disorder. Her bent, beaten, and torn body frames are a graphic expression of her fluctuating range of emotions, the medication used to control the illness, and the physical toll that her body and mind endure. Her battered forms are testament to her creative resilience and her resolve to bring greater stability to her life. Pieng-or is currently studying for her BA in Fine Art at King Mongkut Institute of Technology Latkrabang.

The two-part art exhibition Body Language I & II showcases new three-dimensional works by artists Pieng-or Pinpart and Angkana Kongpetch. Marking their debut solo exhibitions, this two-stage exhibition highlights young female artists who produce metal sculptures using the human body as a metaphor for individual themes. Aside from commonalities in gender, age, and aesthetics, both artists affirm the importance for physical and spiritual balance in our existence.

Body Language I & II are the third and fourth exhibitions in the year-long project, 3D @ Thavibu, highlighting three-dimensional art in Suite 307 of Thavibu Gallery. Curated by Steven Pettifor, 3D @ Thavibu will present
a series of exhibitions featuring established and emergent Thai and international artists.

THAVIBU GALLERY
The Silom Galleria Building,
Suite 308, 919/1 Silom Rd.
Bangkok 10500
Tel (662) 266 5454
Fax (662) 266 5455

Monday, May 24, 2010

How to be an Angel by Truong Tan



Exhibition : How to be an Angel
by Truong Tan
on June 19 - July 11, 2010
at Thavibu Gallery, Bangkok

19 June – 11 July 2010 | Open: Monday – Saturday: 11:00 – 19:00 pm | Thavibu Gallery

Thavibu Gallery is pleased to present the art exhibition How to be an Angel with lacquer paintings by the Vietnamese artist Truong Tan.



As an artist, Truong Tan is known above all for his erotic references to his sexuality, making use of his autobiographical experiences, perceptions and feelings to mark his artistic narrative. A native of Hanoi, Truong Tan was born in 1963 and graduated from the University of Fine Arts, Hanoi in 1989, where he subsequently worked as a lecturer. His departure in 1997 was largely due to his challenging art that openly expressed his gayness and questioned the contradictions of the then implemented economic liberalization policy or Doi Moi. By rejecting the more conservative assumption of art that were being adopted by his peers, Truong Tan moved to Paris under a grant from the Cite’ Internationale des Artes. Despite his reputation as the enfante terrible of the time, Truong Tan has today emerged as one of Vietnam’s most internationally acclaimed artists with his art as part of the permanent collections of major art museums that include the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan , the Queensland Art Gallery, Australia and the Singapore Art Museum. He has been a participant of numerous biennials in Asia and Europe.
His forthcoming exhibition How to be an Angel is his first solo exhibition after five years and importantly represents a shift in his earlier explicative and clashing art-historical narrative. Truong Tan’s series of lacquer paintings in this exhibition not only trumpet his reconciliation with his cultural history, it also pronounces a mature and sophisticated voice that continues to remain true to his convictions and moral principles




Thavibu : The Silom Galleria Building, 3rd Fl. Suite 308, 919/1 Silom Rd. Bangkok 10500, Thailand, Telephone : 0-2266-5454, Fax : 0-2266-5455, E-mail: info@thavibu.com

Exhibition at Thavibu Gallery by Truong Tan




Thavibu Gallery will be hosting an art exhibition titled, "How to be an Angel" with lacquer paintings by the famous Vietnamese artist, Truong Tan, who has today emerged as one of Vietnam's most internationally acclaimed artist with his art as part of the permanent collections of major art mueseums that include the Fukuoka Asian Art Mueseum in Japan, the Queensland
Art Gallery in Australia, and the Singapore Art Mueseum. He has also participated in numerous biennials in Asia and Europe.



Thavibu Gallery
The Silom Galleria, 3rd Floor
Suite 308, 919/1 Silom Road
Bangkok 10500, Thailand
Tel.: (662) 266-5454
Fax.: (662) 266-5455
Mob.: (6689) 812-8577
Email: heide@thavibu.com

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Sparkle by Krit Ngamsom


Sparkle by Krit Ngamsom
on 3 April – 16 May 2010
at 3D @ Thavibu

Open:     Monday – Saturday: 11:00 – 19:00, Sunday: 12:00 – 18:00

     Thavibu Gallery is pleased to present the art exhibition Sparkle with new three-dimensional works by emergent artist Krit Ngamsom. Marking his second solo exhibition, the whimsical installation features a specially produced series of illuminated fibreglass sculptures displayed within Perspex gift boxes and thematic containers.




     Hailing from Phichit province in Thailand’s north, Krit is one of several Thai artists to explore themes associated with rural to urban migration. Known for creating playful kinetic artworks that combine everyday objects, Krit explores the novelty and superficiality experienced by outsiders upon encountering the vapidity and excesses of urbanites in Bangkok. In Sparkle he focuses upon the empty ritualism of extravagant gift giving by wealthy Bangkokians during traditional holidays. 

     Having previously customised household electrical appliances such as fans, telephones, and lamps, for Sparkle Krit creates an ambient light and sculpture installation glowing with uncomplicated innocence. On a deeper level, his ironic artworks are an implication toward the economic, social, cultural, and growing political disparages between Thailand’s rural masses and the metropolitan elite.

     Krit graduated with a BA in Visual Arts from Bangkok University in 2005. Still only 27-years old, he has since been an assistant to several of Thailand’s most progressive artists, as well as participating in the group exhibitions Bangkok Bananas at Central World (2009), Bangkok 226 and Traces of Siamese Smile at the Bangkok Art & Culture Centre (both 2008). 

     Sparkle is the second exhibition in the year-long project, 3D @ Thavibu, highlighting three-dimensional art in Suite 307 of Thavibu Gallery. Curated by Steven Pettifor, 3D @ Thavibu will present a series of exhibitions featuring established and emergent Thai and international artists. 

Thavibu Gallery
The Silom Galleria, 3rd Floor
Suite 308, 919/1 Silom Road
Bangkok 10500, Thailand
Tel.:  (662) 266-5454
Fax.: (662) 266-5455
Mob.: (6689) 812-8577
Email: heide@thavibu.com

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Bangkok Station by Therdkiat Wangwatcharakul


Exhibition:  Bangkok Station at Thavibu Gallery, 13 Feb - 7 Mar 2010

BANGKOK STATION showcases new paintings by the Thai artist Therdkiat Wangwatcharakul on 13 Feb - 7 March. The exhibition features a series of oil paintings on canvas, as well as oil on aluminum sheets which he is well known for. Therdkiat is a master at evoking the loneliness of the big city. Despite the over-crowded milieu of the Asian sprawl, often individual citizens’ find themselves isolated and distant from loved ones. In Bangkok Station, Therdkiat refrains from earlier architecturally aligned works to spotlight the daily rituals of the capital’s inhabitants. Therdkiat was born in 1971 and graduated with a Masters Degree in painting from Silapakorn University in 2003. His unique brand of art has warranted inclusion in several domestic exhibitions as well as Singapore, USA, Japan, the Netherlands, Korea, and Spain. He was also awarded the prestigious Jurors’ Choice Prize in the 2000 ASEAN Art Awards. 



see more http://www.thavibu.com/thailand/therdkiat_wangwatcharakul/THA1700.htm 




Thavibu Gallery
Silom Galleria, Suite 308
919/1 Silom Road, Bangkok 10500, Thailand
Tel. 66 (0)2 266 5454, Fax. 66 (0)2 266 5455
Email. info@thavibu.com, www.thavibu.com

Friday, January 22, 2010

Solid by Pinaree Sanpitak




Art Exhibition: Solid
Artist: Pinaree Sanpitak, Thailand
Dates: 13 February – 31 March 2010
Venue: 3D @ Thavibu

Thavibu Gallery is pleased to present the art exhibition Solid with new three-dimensional works by internationally recognised artist Pinaree Sanpitak. The exhibition features a sublime series of specially produced Murano glass sculptures alongside polished aluminium forms.
For over 15 years Pinaree has evolved her primal images of femininity down to two recurrent emblems - the vessel and the mound. Far from exhausting her subject, the industrious, explorative artist resourcefully and imaginatively continues to create interesting modes of manifesting intimate interpretations to the female psyche within contemporary society.
Having previously utilised fragile materials such as wax, flowers, charcoal, and perishable foods into her art, Pinaree recently collaborated with master glass-blowers from Venice in Italy to produce unique breast-cloud sculptures that are both solid yet ephemeral in their transparent lustrous presence. Evoking the weighty yet vaporous physicality of clouds, the distinct glassworks juxtapose against the shimmering metallic sheen of the aluminium cumulus forms. The floor based installation encourages viewers to appreciate Pinaree’s forms from an alternate perspective.
Pinaree has exhibited widely with solo shows in Thailand, Singapore, Japan, France and the USA, as well as participating in the 1999 3rd Asia-Pacific Triennial in Australia, and the 2nd Fukuoka Asian Art Triennial in 2002. She has also attended residency programmes in Paris, Stockholm, and California. Solid comes ahead of Pinaree’s upcoming solo exhibition in New York.
Solid is the debut exhibition in the year-long project, 3D @ Thavibu, highlighting three-dimensional art in Suite 307 of Thavibu Gallery. Curated by Steven Pettifor, 3D @ Thavibu will present a series of exhibitions featuring established and emergent Thai and international artists.

The Silom Galleria Building, 3rd Fl.
Suite 308, 919/1 Silom Rd.
Bangkok 10500, Thailand
Tel. (66 2) 266 5454
Fax. (66 2) 266 5455
E-mail: info@thavibu.com
Open: Monday – Saturday: 11:00 – 19:00, Sunday: 12:00 – 18:00
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