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Galleries' night!
Guru, Mika Apichatsakol, Published on 03/02/2017
» Ditch your regular after work plans for gallery hopping this Friday night and weekend. Galleries' Night, an artistic affair that will take up your time between 5pm to late, returns on February 3 and 4. Venues on the Sathon side open their shows first on a Friday night, while those on the Sukhumvit side will wait until the next night to launch their exhibitions. After that you're free to catch anything you missed. However, we're not gonna lie and tell you that you can or should visit, all 50 or so participating galleries over such short period of time. So, here's a manageable list of 10 that we think deserve a little more attention than the others, as you plan your nightly art crawl through Bangkok this weekend.
Through the Cracker Box
Guru, Mika Apichatsakol, Published on 20/05/2016
» Nova Contemporary Gallery's inaugural exhibition, "Today is the Day: The Proposition of our Future", is a poignant exposition on the aftermath of Fukushima, told collectively through the multimedia works of 10 artists. Renowned Japanese film artist Ryusuke Ito is among the batch of voices and contributes to the collection an evocative installation you'd need to appreciate for a few minutes from multiple angles. Originally titled "All Things Considered", Ito's piece is a video installation capturing a replica of the Fukushima Daiichi power plant's interior as well as the inside of a Japanese person's apartment -- seemingly tranquil, but in reality, narrative of livelihoods arrested by disaster.
The art of monstrosity
Guru, Mika Apichatsakol, Published on 30/10/2015
» Mary Shelley would be rolling in her grave if she knew about a real school that teaches students how to make monsters. OK, perhaps students at the Make Up Arts and Technique School at Wang Thonglang (near Rajamangala Stadium) aren't going grave-digging at night to find the body parts they need, but they do spend weeks, sometimes nearly a month, making purposely messed-up facial parts from scratch.