TRI-TOSA-WARA: 13 Years of The Art Center

7th Floor, Center of Academic, Chulalongkorn University
December 26, 2008 – January 17, 2009

As the Center of Academic Resources celebrates its 30th anniversary this year and has organized an event to promote library and information science, The Art Center sees it as a good opportunity to stage a special exhibition to celebrate its own 13 years of operation as well.

Entitled "TRI-TOSA-WARA", which simply means "the 13th anniversary", the exhibition aims to chronicle the history of The Art Center, which was one of the first art institutes in Thailand to earn international recognition and has showcased many established and emerging Thai artists, several of whom went on to win international acclaim. The display of TRI-TOSA-WARA is a combination of documentations of exhibitions staged in the past 13 years – be they photos, videos, posters, catalogs and media reviews – and works on loan from artists and Chula's own collection. Some of the artists whose work will be display again include Hem Vejakorn, Nawin Lawanchaikul, Sakarin Krue-on, Michael Shaowanasai and Vasan Sittiket.

Sanna
Sanya Wong-Aram
29 August – 11 October 2008

Sanna is an exhibition of art works created by Associate Professor Sanya Wong-Aram from1963 to present. The majority of the art works on display are created using printmaking processes. There are also other art works exhibited in multi-media form. The main concept of the exhibition, which its title is derived from, can be seen through the atmosphere and the arrangement of the prints on the gallery walls. Furthermore, the major piece of art work, which is a large-scale woodcut print, may also yield the idea of this exhibition. The artist achieves this by intentionally using sa??? (a Pali word, meaning perception of physical and mental objects which may function as 'memory') or recollection of past experience, to integrate with his current ideas about art, society, culture and politics. By working with this idea, the artist wishes to reinforce his own imagination in the working processes, and hopes the audience will feel the same way while viewing the complete work.

 

More to Love: The Art of Living Together
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. As well as, to create a new perception of HIV through various kinds of media, we have more than 100 people who contribute in this project, including doctors, people living with HIV, NGO, artists, curators, writers, art and cultural workers, musicians, actor and actress. “More to Love” was started in July 2007 and has different activities between artists-artists and artists-doctors in order to encounter this issue and create the artworks under the concept of living together which will be exhibited in July – August 2008 at 4 venues in Bangkok and December 2008 in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

 

SENSATIONAL SELVES
Curated by Brian Curtin
29 May - 28 June 2008

By Michael Croft, Thomas Donaldson, Checksant Gangakate, Warawut Intorn,
Wuttikorn Khongka,Maitree Siriboon,Nattarika Thanpridanant

The Art Center of Chulalongkorn University is delighted to announce an exhibition of painting and
mixed-media worksthat offerinsights into what it means to imagine notions of the ‘self’ in terms of the physical body.

Featuring expatriate and Thai artists, Sensational Selves addresses questions of the physical self as opposed to
metaphysical concepts of soul, mind, or, in Buddhist thought, atta. These artists raise critical issues, propositions
and revelations about the matter of physical identity in a world of appearances; the capacity of the human body to
represent sensation as the result of social experience and states of mind; and the place and relevance of the
humanist tradition in visual art for local contexts.