OPENING RECEPTION

THURSDAY 10 JANUARY 2013, 6.00pm

Exhibition on view from 10 Jan – 9 Feb 2013

Mass Universe in partnership with ThaiGa and Canon Marketing (Thailand) invites you to visit the opening exhibition MASSEXercise by MASSEXperiment, an alternative education project on THURSDAY 10 JANUARY 2013, 6-9pm.

The exhibition features 37 design works from 37 designer participants from MASSEXperiment. The project aims to create new ways of design-related education that allow participants to articulate their content, connecting them to their surroundings as well as creating a process of learning that is different from the formal education system. This exhibition is the first event for participants to apply recently developed knowledge in real-world practice.

With support from ThaiGa and Canon Marketing (Thailand) the exhibition aims to promote learning practices and collaboration between design participants and professional designers. The workshop has been in place since August 2012. Under the guidance of 18 lecturers, the 20 selected participants collaborated within a democratized environment, with the freedom to express and conceptualise ideas about the places and people they of their everyday lives.

The following lecturers who conducted the workshop as well as selecting and displaying works are:

Anuthin Wongsunkakon

Kelvin Wong

Nattapol Suphawong

Nontawat Charoenchasri

Opas Limpi-Angkanan

Pharuephon Mukdasanit

Pongpassakorn Kulthirathum

Pongstorn Limanon

Rukkit Kuanhawate

Santi Lawrachawee

Sethapong Povatong

Siam Attariya

Surat Tomornsak

Tnop Wangsillapakun

Vorathit Kruavanichkit

Waroot Phanyarachun

Wee Viraporn

Worawut Leewatta

Admission and Contact Details

Visitor Information

Opening times: Tuesday – Sunday, 4pm-10pm

Free Admission

WTF Café & Gallery

7 Sukhumvit Soi 51, Wattana, Klongton-Nua, Bangkok 10110

www.wtfbangkok.com

BTS: Thonglor

For further information please contact:

Somrak Sila

somrak@wtfbangkok.com, 

T/F: 02 662 6246

M: 089 926 5474

Tik Siripen Suankerd

tik.massuniverse@gmail.com

M: +089 684 8477 

EXTENDED UNTIL DECEMBER 15TH!

 

Opening Reception:
Wednesday 1 August
6pm

FROM 2 – 29 August
4-10pm

WTF gallery is pleased to announce the photography exhibition, Flamingo, by Kachain Wongleawthong.

Kachain Wongleawmthong, one of Bangkok’s leading editorial and commercial photographers, will present his first solo photography show at WTF, from 3-29 August 2012. As one of the leading photographers in Thailand, Kachain has photographed portraits for the most well known magazines and on highly visible commercial assignments. After 12 years of work suppressed by the market’s demands he is eager to express his artistic voice free from constraints. 

In any typical art “scene,” artwork is often defined by its ideological value. Kachain refuses to go along with this. He declares a strong affinity for anti-commercialism as well as an anti-art or anti-theoretical stance, disparaging the conventional market-driven art world in favour of an artist-centered creative practice, similar to the Fluxus movement of the1960’s which “played an important role in the opening up of definitions of what art can be.”[1]

All the images are taken using the Polaroid process which envelopes images with a mysterious veil that seems suited to capturing the overlooked beauty and poetry of the everyday, even the banal. The works are also the out-takes from Kachain’s commercial assignments whereby his portraits of models and celebrities on Polaroid film with the same setting as his digital camera, yet the Polaroids portray another world that seems more immediate, less posed, with an essential “being theren-ess” that digital cannot achieve.

Kachain’s approach captures subjects in a similar way to Andy Warhol’s celebrity Polaroids — with a hollow, brash, trashy transience, that conveys the intimacy and melancholy beauty of not caring about anything, above all the client.

Kachain Wongleamthong graduated from Faculty of Fine Art, major in Photography, Rangsit University. He is always interested in how portraiture captures the personality and the soul of the subject. His reputation as a photographer became widely known and associated with his ability to stimulate a subject’s emotion and character in the photographs, rather than relying on technical skills. He is currently head photographer of A Day and Hamburger magazines. For more information, go towww.wong-kachain.com

Tate Online, Fluxus, Performance, Participation [1]

Thursday 19 April 2012, 7pm

Opening Reception

The exhibition has been conceptualized over the last 6 years during his art residency programmes and participation in artistic activities throughout Europe and Asia. For this show he created over 120 interactive ceramic sculpture of human heads that were created at Thao Hong Thai ceramic factory in Ratchaburi. 

Jakraphun articulates the concept of changes in human behavior, influenced by fast moving technology through varied personas of human types presented in his sculpture and interactive elements. Inspired by the rapid increase of human’s virtual interaction with social media, rather than face-to-face, he expresses his concerns on obscurity, deception, soullessness, obsession and addiction or even the lack of good judgement that seems to flourish via these networks today.  While the real time and virtual aspects in social networks has become a crucial communication tool and beneficial to many commercial and mass information endeavors, it can also stimulate the divisions within society, often with distorted truths. Extreme opinions have been formed based on “facts” other people ‘share’, regardless of the truth or without careful examination of the origins. The question is  whether what we see or hear or have been presented by this new and dominant social world is real. How much truth is there in the faces we see in this computer-generated society? What is the real objective of each individual’s projection and statements? 

The artist incorporates his craftsmanship in individually hand painting of each sculptural heads, portraying a spectrum of varied characters, from extreme to neutral. Each head signifies a major element or player that he has witnessed in the virtual society —whether real or artificial.

Jakraphun Thanateeranon is an artist, curator, art activist and a writer. He’s been working with several youth art projects in Asia and has attended over 10 art residency programmes all over the world. The exhibition is the continuation works from his pervious shows titled 13.31 and Spirit of Japan which were created and exhibited in Japan in 2008. The content of the shows were focusing on human masks, tapping into the topics of deception vs truth, realistic vs fear, ghost vs god and religious vs belief.

The exhibition will be on view at WTF gallery from 19 April – 18 May 2012.