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'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.
The fear is here
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 03/08/2016
» With any political fight, it's hardly the end when street clashes are over -- camps demolished, protesters injured or dead and the authorities able to curb the movement or finally comply with its demands. The fight continues and what's perhaps more significant than action on the streets is finding the desired spot in a page in history, in people's minds. The question is: how are we to be remembered?
The traditional office may go way of the dinosaur
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 06/07/2016
» In the not-so-distant future people may no longer be working in offices but instead will turn to alternative venues such as co-working spaces. This speculation is not hasty, considering it is the current vision of Charle Charoenphan, co-founder of one of Thailand's first co-working companies HUBBA. Since its launch in 2012, the business has thrived and Charle said in the past few years roughly 500 such spaces have sprung up across Thailand.
Sense behind the madness
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 08/07/2016
» One is either enthralled, frustrated or confused by Apichatpong Weerasethakul's films. It's possibly a reflex of a complex and conflicting emotion -- you are not sure whether it's yourself as an audience or Apichatpong as a filmmaker that inspire those reactions.
Picture-perfect
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 01/06/2016
» Bangkok-based Japanese artist Soichiro Shimizu's latest exhibition, "Re-Looks", is a re-look both at his own art practice and at fellow artists he admires. Currently displayed in the elegant, well-lit YenarkArt Villa is a series of photographs which appear to have gone through practically almost every Photoshop function -- cropped, stretched, resized and collaged -- to the point of total abstraction.
Loss and longing
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 02/06/2016
» It's not until we have seen the ongoing show "Lhong", a project comprising of five short plays, that we realise how much the space of Democrazy Theatre Studio actually has to offer. We usually just buy some beers at a little café in front and then head straight into the space inside, and that's it.
The future, in reverse
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 08/06/2016
» On the surface, artist Apichatpong Weerasethakul's video of a night journey through a temple doesn't seem to be in dialogue with photographs of Sakhalin island by Japanese Tomoko Yoneda. Nor does there seem to be any connection between Field Recordings' video work documenting migrant workers on the banks of Shanghai's Huangpu River and MAP Office's incredibly detailed imaginary map of "future Hong Kong".
Art attack
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 08/06/2016
» The art dispute of the year is upon us. As the art community sees the rift open up, it also reminds society of the ideological divide that has plagued Thailand for many years. The stage is the exhibition called "The Truth_ To Turn It Over" curated by Gwangju Museum of Art to commemorate the 1980 Gwangju Uprising against the military dictatorship; it's been almost a month since the show opened in South Korea, but it's still very much "an ongoing process" -- a very heated one at that.
Chaos theory
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 15/06/2016
» In a lot of cases, one way of looking at an exhibition is as a site where chaos -- ideas, emotions, imagination, truths, etc -- is sorted out and made sense of through a curatorial process.
Let the music play
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 17/06/2016
» It's not just the logo that's been given a revamp. The festival of art and culture La Fête by the French Embassy, after 11 continuous years, is establishing a new time-frame -- cultural festivals and events previously crammed within about a month will now stretch over the whole year.