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Unveiling layers of himself
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 08/02/2017
» A photography show on display at Bangkok Art and Culture Centre's Studio room on the fourth floor is anything but pictorial in the traditional sense. Confronting viewers right after entering is a collage of shots arranged together, kaleidoscope-like. Nearby, four images placed together capture the photographer's motion while walking. Further inside, the photographer's self-portrait is ghostly transparent as a result of an experiment with long exposure.
Lion's share
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 27/01/2017
» The night was lively around the neighbourhood of Saint-Germain-des-Prés last Saturday for the opening of this year's Paris Déco Off, an annual event where more than 100 home-furnishing-fabrics brands join to showcase their latest designs. But there was perhaps more buzzing than anywhere else down the quaint Rue de Furstenberg where the Jim Thompson showroom is situated.
The case of the closing(?) Art Center
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 11/01/2017
» To close down or not to close down? One would have thought that that is not the question for Chulalongkorn University's The Art Center, after having been one of Thailand's most prominent art institutions for 20 years -- after playing host to some of Thailand's best-established artists as well as international names such as Joan Miró, Marina Abramovic, Zhang Peili and more.
What's in a name?
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 02/11/2016
» For "smooth cultural integration", Thai international study agency Smart NZ Education advises that students with nicknames like Poo, Pee and Porn consider alternatives. The issue made headlines earlier last month after a report by the New Zealand Herald indicated that students might get "harassed if nothing is done". That's not unlikely, despite the fact that "faeces", "urine" and "pornography" -- the formal English words for the aforementioned nicknames -- weren't exactly those parents' intention when their children first came into the world.
A complex legacy
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 19/10/2016
» Towering over viewers right after entering the Singtel Special Exhibition Gallery at National Gallery Singapore is a massive photograph by Singaporean artist Lee Wen. It features the statue of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles with a platform nearby upon which ordinary people can literally and figuratively be on the same level as the figure who's considered the founder of Singapore.
Urban exploration
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 13/10/2016
» The basement space in front of the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre's art library is usually bare and unexciting. Now, however, it's filled with an array of patterns -- abstract from one angle, vaguely figurative from another -- in forms of tapestry and felt that work as canvases and even sculptural forms.
Never forget
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 05/10/2016
» In a stage performance that just finished its run on Sunday, performers re-enacted scenes in which victims were hunted, beaten and strangled to death. In an art exhibition opening tomorrow, we'll see in paintings traces of atrocious scenes in the foreground while the surface is heavily smudged with paint, to the point of abstraction.
'A Painter from Bikaner' come to Bangkok
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 28/07/2016
» At Serindia Gallery, all is still and calm until you look closer and everything -- the landscapes, animals and plants -- suddenly comes to life. Magnifying glasses are of course provided. In the exhibition "A Painter From Bikaner", Indian traditional miniature painter Mahaveer Swami presents a selection of his exquisitely detailed works whose subjects range from the mundane daily lives in India, landscapes and animals to tales from mythology.
Blinded by the light
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 25/05/2016
» As stated in the text, "Oscillation", an exhibition at Chulalongkorn University's Art Center which opened earlier this month, "considers a state of actively moving back and forth between multiple reference points and ideas, during which meanings are produced and reproduced".
In search of a healthy society
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 25/04/2016
» The success of Ratchanok "May" Intanon, Thai badminton star who recently won the Singapore Open and became world No.1, is an exception, obviously. The 21-year-old is slightly built, but according to a recent comment by Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, success in sports has nothing to do with size but is due to the lack of conflict in the athlete's country.