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Remaking the scene
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 21/12/2016
» It has been a busy year for the Thai art scene, with well-known artists taking turns treating Bangkok viewers to their latest works, new galleries welcomed and old ones closing down, and politics remaining deeply embedded in artistic expression.
Ratchaburi's roll of the dice
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 04/03/2016
» Almost five years ago the late writer and National Artist in literature Prabhassorn Sevikul wrote a short story. The text was not published on paper but painted along the bank of Mae Khlong river, and you had to walk the total of 3km to finish the story. The ephemeral aspect of this, along with 74 other artworks installed around Ratchaburi, featured in the first edition of the community-based "Art Normal" event.
Wonderwalls and more
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 27/01/2016
» Since we have yet to find an art school for, or exhibitions by, the much-hyped angel child dolls, Art Matters this month is going to make do with the same old current show round-up.
The surreal world we live in
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 18/12/2015
» As the festive time draws near, with Christmas and the New Year, it's not only a time for celebrating and looking ahead, but looking at where we have been and where we are right now. But while the future is all imagination -- all your New Year's resolutions are possibly delusional and bogus -- what's real and inarguable is the past and the now, as we breathe and try to get through the day. Let's not get personal about this as there are plenty of other occasions to talk about your plans to do yoga more regularly, cut down on cigarettes or be nicer to other people.
Hungry for solutions
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 03/06/2015
» Boats are floating, one filled with fresh flowers, the other carrying a supply of meatballs, white noodles, or sen lek, fish sauce, chilli powder and sugar. Next to that is a rice paddy, which looks about a month old.
Becoming blissfully aware
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 08/05/2015
» Jenjira Pongpas has no clue what Blissfully Yours, the 2002 Cannes Film Festival's Un Certain Regard prize-winning film by director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, is all about. Not while first reading the script, not while acting it in, not after the film won the prestigious award that heralded Thai art house cinema, and not even today.
Making connections, not cash
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 21/01/2015
» Artist Pisitakun Kuantalaeng, 28, was once a Yellow Shirt. In less than a decade, Pisitakun went from a fervent supporter of anti-Thaksin politics and airport seizures to an artist who took to the streets after the junta seized power last May.
A fitting fiasco
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 13/08/2014
» Wasinburee Supanichvoraparch's melting ceramic works are reminiscent of Salvador Dali's pocket watch in The Persistence Of Memory. But while the Spanish master's fluid softness is a surrealist meditation on time, Wasinburee's is about fate, about subjecting his work of art to unpredictability.