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Photo Art Asia Expo 2008
Contemporary photography

Zen Exhibition Lounge, 1st floor

Zen department store

Ratchadamri Road, tel 02.100.9962

Daily 10 am-10pm, until October 26 2008

The "Photo Art Asia Expo 2008" features contemporary photography by 11 international photo artists from 10 countries-Ralf Tooten, Sherman Org, Martin Reeves, Piyatat Hemmatat, Eiffel Chong, Ajay Stevens, Anne Bryant, Stephen Albair and Brendan Linage.

 

 


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LOVE and LUST
Jirapat Tatsanasomboon
13 September - 5 October, 2008.

Jirapat Tatsanasomboon applies a pop-art style to his paintings which feature well known images and icons of western contemporary art such as Keith Haring's figures and LOVE paintings by Robert Indiana. Into these international iconic paintings, Jirapat inserts Thai traditional characters, often from the Ramakien (Ramayana) epic or Lanna Ladies or men. He plays around with images and paintings and transforms these well known icons by changing their appearances and putting them in a new and alien Thai setting. The interaction between the Thai and western characters may be viewed as symbolizing interactions at various levels, such as East-West and Modern-Traditional.

 


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Animation by Takahiro Hayakawa Japanfoundation

Takahiro Hayakawa was born in 1979. Having received many national and international awards at the world-renowned competitions such as "ARS ELECTRONICA 2005" "SIGGRAPH 2008" "2004 Asia Digital Art Award"etc., he is an animation filmmaker of a new blood and emerging generation.

His works are a combination of hand-drawn animation and computer-based generative animation in the form of organic expression. He considers that "animation" and "animism" are both originated from "anima" and his keywords are "animation", "animism" and "anima" based on a motif of Asian countries including Japan which are entitled, "the world of spirit".


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100 Tonson Gallery at Showcase:Singapore
9 Sep - 12 Sep 2008
100 Tonson Gallery has been invited to join in Showcase: Singapore, a premium boutique art fair. Organized by the National Art Council of Singapore and Fortune Cookie Projects and it will feature 23 top international galleries.

Showcase:Singapore is a sponsored and by invitation only exhibition and 100 Tonson Gallery is honored to be the only gallery from Thailand to partake. The event itself will be held at City Hall 9-12 September, the same opening period as Singapore Biennale 2008. Artworks such as Painting, Sculpture, Photography and Print from our distinguished artists, Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook, Chatchai Puipia, Yuree Kensaku, Utai Nopsiri, Peggy Wauters, and Yayoi Kusama will be exhibited.


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A.W.C.
A contemporary photography exhibition by Ralf Tooten
Curator: Josef Ng
August 14 – September 6 2008
In the exhibition, simply titled after the series, there is symbolic as well as humanist photography on view with each subject averaging around 3-4 shots. Looking through the images closely, one obvious commonality is that all faces are being covered – masked, for lack of a better word – with various clothing fabrics. Ski masks, t-shirts, sun hats & glasses etc, there is a direct approach pertaining to the subject being photographed.

 


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Life is beautiful
Manit Sriwanichpoom at kathmandu gallery
From 31 July – 31 August 2008
With their clear gaze and innocent smiles, these fourteen children represent thousands upon thousands of other guiltless victims just like them scattered across Thailand. They were born with AIDS virus that was their inheritance from their parents. But growing with HIV is not their only misfortune. The society that surrounds them also conspires to stigmatise them by cutting them off from the world of normal people; they are forced to struggle against one more virulent disease, namely the ‘virus of prejudices.’


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More to Love: The Art of Living Together #1
24 July – 15 August 2008
This year, ARTAIDS organize the art event “More to Love: The Art of Living Together” with collaborations from government and non-government sections in order to raise the awareness on fighting with stigma around HIV by using art and creative activities to convey the message of that we can live together with HIV/AIDS.


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New Identity
Ohm Phanphiroj
18 July - 17 Aug 2008 at whitespace
New Identity is a series of triptychs of Thai transsexuals which employ historical conventions from ethnographic photography. That is, conventions which suggest an objective truth about ‘types’ of people. However, rather than claiming a general truth about the nature and appearance of trans-sexuality, Phanphiroj invites the viewer to consider the psychological dimensions of physical transformation.



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Navin’s Sala
4 ๋July
Navin’s Sala is an event not to be missed! Internationally renowned Indian-Thai artist Navin Rawanchaikul celebrates the Asian premier of his unique artist’s monograph alongside the artist’s first ever retrospective exhibition.

Navin’s Sala is the much anticipated collaborative monograph by internationally renowned Indian-Thai artist Navin Rawanchaikul. Recognised for creating an imaginative brand of installation and interactive art that delivers novel methods of introducing contemporary art to the public, Navin celebrates the Asian premier of this unique artist’s publication with the artist’s first retrospective exhibition. First presented at the Cannes International Film Festival in May this year, this special event marks the first art exhibition to be held at Bangkok’s design conscious, waterfront landmark, The River Promenade.


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NANOTHAILAND
19 Jun at 100 tonson gallery
NANOTHAILAND is a series of photographs that addresses the artist's interest in cultural hybridism. The artist has photographed so-called minorities going about their daily lives in Thailand. Montri's subjects include immigrants, refugees and exiles. However, rather than reinforcing the idea of a minority - the idea that some people are essentially different from a general populace – Montri asks us to consider the fact that all societies and cultures are fundamentally a melting pot of differences.


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Japanese Legs - L'en dedans
Claude Estèbe
14 June at Kathmandu gallery
For foreigners in Japan and even for the natives the gait of Japanese women is an endless source of fascination. Their flexible and unusual way of squatting, standing and walking seems to come from complex etiquettes of an ancient civilisation.


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Face to Faces
10 June
"Face to Faces" is an exhibition presented under the programme "Dialogues d'images", initiated by Culturesfrance in 2005. The programme sets out to address contemporary issues in photography, video, graphics and drawing, by confronting a fixed corpus of 30 to 50 works by French and European artists with a series of works by artists from the country hosting the exhibition. The latter are to be selected jointly by the French curator and a curator from the host venue. Works of artists from the host country enrich these major exhibitions which in turn become unique at each stage.


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The Dark Age
Vasan Sitthiket
10 May at Numthong gallery
Nowaday, the politics, Economy and society are declined and collapsed to the greed of power-obsessed rulers of only few families, driving this world into such a chaotic disaster.


Globbal warming, iceberg melting, new kinds of diseases, earthquake. snow and great storm are now happening here there and everywhere people yet struggle to survive under the rules and laws written by those thieves.


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Altered Faces
Le Quang Ha
26 Apr at Thavibu gallery
Le Quang Ha was born in Hanoi in 1963 and graduated from the Hanoi Industrial College of Fine Arts in 1992. Le Quang Ha avoids traditional, academic subjects in his art, and instead chooses to address issues that many artists prefer to overlook or even ignore in their work. There is much vitality, meaning, and social critique in the brutal honesty of his art.


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Beyond...
Kamin Lertchaiprasert
24 Apr at 100 Tonson gallery
"Beyond…" an art of dharmic truth on canvas by top avant-garde artist,Kamin Lertchaiprasert. As the aim of artist, title of exhibition "Beyond…" also brings beholders a silent wonder on the connection of puzzle of religious precepts. He stated that "Some matters can't be perceivable by human senses; some visible matters can't understandable by eyesight. A question on a limitation among the communication, the truth and the front sight is a challenge to reach human passion; love, greed, anger and lust."


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Will Not Cry in Public
Yield
17 Apr at Art Center Chula
A media art exhibition
By Olan Netrangsi, Pathompon Tesprateep, and Sathit Sattarasart
With a guess writer: N. Paksnavin
17th April – 17th May 2008
Opening reception: Friday, 25th April 2008 from 6 pm. onwards
Art Center, Center of Academic Resource Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok
Will Not Cry in Public is a media based art exhibition by yield


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WHITE SPACE
1 Year anniversary
April 5 at WHITE SPACE
The show is a celebrated spectrum of the arts community. Whitespace Gallery reaches out to 12 artists; where future, present and past shows are given the opportunity to exhibit together. We are thrilled to kick off with an amazing line up of so many extraordinary artists living in Thailand.


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