A Leg-Up Society--Chapter 2 The House of Museum Showcase
Chatchai Puipia 
“The House of Museum Showcase” (บ้านพิพิธภัณฑ์: พิพิธภัณฑ์ตัดตอน) on Thursday November 6, 2008
20 September 2008 - 25 January 2009

5.30 pm A special talk (in Thai) by Anake Nawikamune
"The House of Museums and The Forgotten Painters/Illustrators"
(บ้านพิพิธภัณฑ์และนักวาดที่ถูกลืม)

7:00 pm. Opening Reception

Chatchai Puipia will mobilize artefacts from a noteworthy museum in the outskirt of Bangkok to the city’s central location of 100 Tonson Gallery. Focusing on the visual art in the olden days, this chapter will take us back in time. "The house of museum" has attracted visitors in the vicinity area to observe life in the past through donated objects and collection in this 3-storey privately-owned museum. Our aim is not to imitate the museum entire setting but to exhibit selected few items from the museum collection with focus on artists and illustrators through displays of old magazines, books, and movies as well as recently published books by the museum founder, Anek Navikamul on the knowledge gained from the past. A Leg Up Society hopes that this chapter will help distributing information about this charming destination for future visits by locals and foreigners alike.

A Leg Up Society (Thai name: Chom Rom Kon Mai Ao Nai)
Chatchai Puipia 
20 September - 26 October 2008
 
This is Puipia’s first exhibition in many years; it also is the first time that Puipia works in collaboration with other artists in the area of film, photography, sculpture, video and literature. 
 
Apart from sculpture installation that will transform the visual presentation of 100 Tonson Gallery in the next several months, the content or focus of the exhibitions may vary according to different inputs of the collaborative artists. The aim of the project is to raise funds as grants for artists and writers, either to enable them to create their artworks or sometimes producing/ presenting something that would impact art society on a larger scale.
 
 
Viewers are welcome to visit the gallery to see A Leg Up Society in the next several months as usual (without entrance fee).  For those who would like to be more involved, this project will be open to the public to apply for membership.  Details about membership applications and benefits will be announced soon but the very least that the member would receive is the publication produced and edited by Puipia.
 
A Leg Up Society will be on view at the galllery from September 2008 - January 2009,  
 
"Chapter 1: Count me in" will be from September 20 to October 26, 2008
Further information, please contact us at +66 (0) 2 684 1527, +66 (0) 81 910 9940.

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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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NANOTHAILAND
19 Jun - 10 Aug 2008
100 Tonson Gallery proudly presents an art exhibition “NANOTHAILAND”, the latest photography installationof the new generation distinguished artist, MONTRI

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. The exhibition deals with his background as a native Laotian speaker with a Thai identity through to the influence of his travels, his horror at the recent actions of the Myanmar junta and Thailand's current debates about censorship and 'Thai-ness'. NANOTHAILAND promises to be one of Montri's most powerful exhibitions to date.

The exhibition will be held during Thursday 19 June – Sunday 10 August 2008 and the Opening reception will be on Thursday 19 June, 2008.

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Beyond…
Kamin Lertchaiprasert
24 April – 15 June 2008

100 Tonson Gallery would like to announce its new exhibition
“Beyond…”, an art of dharmic truth on canvas by top avantgarde artist,
Kamin Lertchaiprasert. “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.”

From his conceptual framework to a mixed media installation, 24 pieces of Kamin’s work on canvases hanging on the wall and one piece of enormous sculpture created by his friend, Udom Udomsrianan for this exclusive exhibition are set in the main hall. Those substantial pieces of art will attract audiences to use their visual perception to perceive what the front sights are and apply their mental perception to interpret what the whole front figure is.

Read between the Dharmic philosophy canvases and discover the Dharma puzzle at 100 Tonson Gallery, Thursday 24 April, 2008 – Sunday15 June 2008.

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Myths & Monstrosities
Peggy Wauters
14 February - 20 April 2008

100 Tonson Gallery is very pleased to present an exhibition of Peggy Wauters’s sculptural ceramics and works on paper titled Myths and Monstrosities. This is the Belgian artist’s first solo exhibition in Asia.

Peggy Wauters creates humanoid forms that bespeak extreme experience. From physical mutation and disintegration to the evocation of profound psychological states, Wauter’s sculptures and drawings are an art of provocation and contemplation.

Drawing inspiration from the symbolic status of society’s ‘others’, such as prisoners, orphans and the disabled, the artist employs a personal interpretation of codes and conventions that signify human frailty and folly. Historically resonant narratives, allegories and allusions are explored to produce a particular vision of basic human fears and feelings for the contemporary climate. A vision, it needs to be said, shot through with an almost perverse sense of humour. Wauters’s exaggerated forms can be both mocking and sympathetic.


The exhibition will be on view Thursday February 14 – Sunday April 20, 2008 (Thursday – Friday, 11 am. – 7pm.)