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An unlikely muse to art of endurance
News, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 31/03/2016
» So what's the latest? Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon said the draft charter by the Meechai Ruchupan-led Constitution Drafting Committee -- yes, the one with a wholly-appointed Senate and fixed senator posts for armed forces and police chiefs -- is up for the referendum and, I quote, "No one will dare to touch it."
Stars of the Thai stage honoured
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 24/03/2016
» The theatre scene in Thailand is still a relatively small affair yet it was a lively evening on Tuesday as directors, performers, theatregoers and members of the press joined the 2015 IATC Thailand Dance and Theatre Review awards ceremony at Bangkok Art and Culture Centre.
Art as a political act
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 18/03/2016
» It was with a feeling of nausea and disgust that Chiang Mai-based artist Mit Jai Inn spent one month working on his new series of abstract paintings, now on display and part of the exhibition "Wett" at Gallery Ver at N22 in Bangkok. Mit's series is entitled "Junta Monochrome" -- obviously not for the works themselves -- for the art space has exploded with every colour imaginable; rather the title conveys the artist's contempt for the reality outside: a junta-ruled country where things are either black or white, where if you're not a khon dee (good person), the artist says, you are inevitably the bad guy.
(Authorised) art attack
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 20/01/2016
» Around this time in 2014, the late artist Mamafaka's one-eyed gigantic monster Mr. HellYeah, spray-painted at the ruins near BTS Ratchathewi, was "bombed" by another graffiti group. The original graffiti was done as part of the first edition of street art festival Bukruk in 2013, and when the controversy about it being defaced erupted, the unauthorised vandalism of the authorised vandalism exemplied the very essence of street art: nothing is permanent.
Building blocks
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 25/11/2015
» ‘An example of bold, contemporary architectural thinking,” said World Architecture Festival director Paul Finch of “The Interlace”, a residential development designed by OMA/Buro Ole Scheeren, which has been crowned World Building of the Year 2015 at the World Architecture Festival in Singapore earlier this month.
The sex ceiling
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 16/09/2015
» Bussaraporn Thongchai believes it would have been completely different if her paintings were displayed, say, by the fountain display at Parc Paragon. She's probably right. The main subject of her ongoing exhibition "I'm Not Your Holy Mother" at Ardel's Third Place Gallery is an old and haggard, yet sexually unrestrained version of the mother of Jesus, the Virgin Mary. One piece shows an up-skirt shot of a woman squatting, while the other shows a woman hung upside down on a crucifix, her wrinkled body and breasts weighed down.
Exhibiting a love for his father
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 01/07/2015
» In a recommendation letter, Silpa Bhirasri, the father of Thai modern art, wrote: "He is a gifted art student. An artist who truly devotes himself to art and is perhaps the best Thai artist there is now." The student he referred to was the late Thai National Artist Fua Haripitak. That letter from the famed Italian sculptor who worked mainly in Thailand was the only thing Fua had to certify his gift, having had no education degree when he embarked upon his studies at the prestigious Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma in 1954.
Intricate, abstract, wild
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 08/04/2015
» More than anything, Filipino artist Louie Cordero's paintings at Bangkok University Gallery's (BUG) current show, "Golden Rule", are fun. On the floor, traces of spilled paint are still visible — as BUG's artist-in-residence, the gallery's second floor was used as Cordero's studio.
No apologies for Sari
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 24/03/2015
» It was a full house at Aksra Theatre earlier this month for the performance, Sari, by the Daksha Sheth Dance Company, a programme that was part of this year's Festival of India In Thailand. Throughout the one-hour performance, dancers moved with yarn and strips of cloth, along with fluid stage lights and accompanied by original a cappella songs.
Inspiration of a sexual provocateur
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 18/03/2015
» Thai-American artist Michael Shaowanasai describes the new collection currently on display at Adler Subhashok Gallery as being formed by a process resembling sexual intercourse: he lay passively while letting his partners, or those who created the pieces from his concept and instructions, do the work for him.