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A mirrored oasis
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 31/01/2024
» Located in the middle of downtown Bangkok next to Phloen Chit BTS, a 10m-high art installation titled Liminal Space is a tree adorned with traditional Thai mirrors. Created by Sanitas Pradittasnee, an artist and landscape designer, the spectacular work offers a space for contemplation in the city.
Chiang Rai to host international art festival
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 05/04/2023
» Organised by the Office of Contemporary Art and Culture, the Ministry of Culture and Chiang Rai province, Thailand Biennale, Chiang Rai 2023 is set to be held from Dec 9 to April 30 next year.
Striking a balance
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 09/03/2022
» Most people believe planting trees is good for the environment, but in some cases, it can be a threat. At the exhibition "Paradise Lost", a video interview with botanist Assoc Prof Kitichate Sridith helps visitors understand that forests cannot be built.
Bridging the gap
Life, Apipar Norapoompipat, Published on 24/10/2018
» Ancient temples and modern art. They seem like two ends of a cultural spectrum that wouldn't seem to bridge well with one another.
The many interpretations of bliss
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 08/10/2018
» With the monsoon comes the art. With the wind and bluster come the artists. Here it is, finally, after a year of fanfare and preparation. The first Bangkok Art Biennale 2018 (BAB 2018) will open on Oct 18 and run until next February in a city-wide surfeit of artistic affairs, from exhibitions to talks, workshops to pool parties (which is, of course, art!). The programme will keep Bangkokians and visitors busy for months starting from next week.
New York Abstracts
Life, Published on 19/09/2018
» As an abstract painter, Hisako Kobayashi's art combines the diverse influences of a person who still feels a strong affinity with her native Japan, but who also received rigorous artistic training in the US and who has lived in that country for most of her adult life.
State of suspension
Life, Published on 12/09/2018
» Two artists, Santi Thongsuk and Therdkiat Wangwatcharakul, probe the idea of suspension. The show displays Santi's gamut of figures gracefully suspended in ethereal space, whilst Therdkiat's rusting vehicles run on outmoded suspension.
Afternoon Person
Life, Published on 30/05/2018
» Tae Parvit's first solo show comprises narrations and human relations, told in full colour and mostly with unplanned compositions of figurative objects. His works are mostly spontaneous and communicate through accidentally beautiful images and characters where viewers are invited to freely feel, contemplate and interpret the meaning.
Fate vs luck
Life, Ariane Kupferman-Sutthavong, Published on 18/10/2017
» In troubled times, what is it that we turn to? Is it faith? Superstition? Some of us will embark on a spiritual path, finding comfort or anguish in a never-ending quest, while others may rely on their Cartesian, scientific mind to get through. Some of us may leave it to luck to do its magic, tossing a coin and seeing on which side it lands.
Exhibition asks, 'Has happiness returned to Thailand?'
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 27/07/2016
» If "Fear" -- Manit Sriwanichapoom's latest photography and video show, which opened over the past weekend at H Gallery, Tang Contemporary Art and Kathmandu Photo Gallery (and at Yavuz Gallery in Singapore at the end of the month) -- isn't the hottest topic of discussion in the capital's art scene already, it soon will be.