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Water World
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 11/06/2014
» It was scorching at a wharf in the Samae San community in Chon Buri province last week. And while most of us probably couldn’t stand more than five minutes of the stifling heat and salty air, 30 watercolour artists, both Thai and international, spent hours obsessively painting.
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.
At the threshold of art
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 10/09/2014
» On the right hand side is a storm of colours that invite you to ponder its intricacy. On the left is an aerial view of a landscape of forest and blue-gray water. These two massive three-panelled abstract works, by Joe Delaney and Soichiro Shimizu respectively, form the entrance to the recently-opened Bridge Art Space, the latest addition, following hot on the heels of Speedy Grandma and Soy Sauce Factory, to the growing art community in Charoen Krung.
Coming full circle
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 08/10/2014
» Running at Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC) until the middle of next month, “Thai Charisma: Heritage + Creative Power” is a juxtaposition of museum-quality artefacts and contemporary works of art — the very old with the very new — which results in an experience that’s sometimes so overwhelming that it’s difficult to digest or even describe.
Paintings that resonate
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 15/10/2014
» Last July, Toot Yung Art Center’s artistic director Myrtille Tibayrenc returned to her hometown in the South of France, accompanied by Thai artist Pakitsilp Varamissara. For Tibayrenc, the one-month trip was the first holiday she had had in three years. For Pakitsilp, it was an artist residency trip that resulted in a collection of oil paintings, sketches and watercolours for an ongoing exhibition “French Resonance”.
Soulful artist moulds the abstract with nature
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 05/11/2014
» The paintings in Japanese artist Soichiro Shimizu's current exhibition "Sculpere" at Chulalongkorn University's The Art Center are all abstract.
A monthly column rounding up the best of the capital’s art scene
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 19/11/2014
» At Yet-Space, there was fried chicken which looked like KFC but tasted worse. At Speedy Grandma, the hipsters, as usual, seemed perfectly fine with Asahi draught as their sole sustenance. At Bangkok University Gallery there was food but I wasn't there in time to see what it was. In this month's column, which rounds up the best food served in the capital's art scene, The Jam Factory Gallery was a sure winner.
A monthly column rounding up the best of the capital's art scene
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 25/03/2015
» It's a real shame that works by Dutch artist Daan Botlek in "Inhabited Hypercube" were only displayed for a week at Cho Why gallery in Chinatown. Yet, that was a happy sign that curator Myrtille Tibayrenc's Toot Yung Gallery, who organised the exhibition as their first nomad project after her space closed down in Ekamai last year, is very much alive and doing rather well.
A monthly column rounding up the best of the capital's art scene
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 29/04/2015
» It took me almost two hours to get to the opening of Speedy Grandma's new exhibition last Friday, due to the rush-hour traffic on Rama IV and from Surawong Road to the old town of Charoen Krung. A parking spot around there is also impossible to find. This being the hottest month of the year (some say the hottest in 55 years), the 10-minute walk from my car to the gallery felt like one additional hour.
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.