‘Art Exhibitions’ Category

Prapat Jiwarangsan: I will never smile again

January 13th, 2012
Installation Art Exhibition
Opening Reception: Thursday 2 February 2012, 7pm
2 February –31 March 2012
 
Artist kindly asks your corporation to only wear black and white color when attending this opening reception. 
 
WTF Gallery is pleased to announce the art installation, “I will never smile again” by Prapat Jiwarangsan. Newly graduated from Royal College of Art, London, Prapat’s work depicts the personal psychological confusion arising from Thailand’s political and social/class conflicts. The exhibition is both politically and socially inspired and underlines the current tension surrounding Thailand’s complex relationship with personal liberty and freedom of expression. The exhibition’s concept derives from his experiences during his fine-art study in London, funded by the Thai Government. Through his obligatory relationship with; frequent attendance at; and finally exhibiting his work in; the Royal Embassy of Thailand-London, Prapat observes the extended meaning of social and diplomatic protocol conveyed within objects on the premises that translate into political meaning. Underlying much of the work is the 2010 violence in Bangkok that projected a reign of terror and confusion (particularly when viewed from outside of his home country,) that Prapat conveys with acute sensitivity to politics and contemporary society in an ongoing conceptual engagement. 
 
Searching for truth is not the objective of this show.  What matters is critical discourse, inquiry, comparison, change of outlook, understanding matters which are beyond your prediction and the value of being human, as well as the subjects who are acclaimed to be above humans. Whether you can see or are able to interpret the message clearly depends largely on the ability to perceive meaning beneath the surface “truths” of the artworks. All matters shown here are for you to consider whether you can still smile at these fictions.
 
 
Born in 1979, Prapat graduated with a Master of Fine Art from Royal College of Art, London in 2011. He is currently working as Artist and officer at Office of Contemporary Art and Culture, Ministry of Culture, Thailand. His works have been shown in Bangkok and London. 
 
The exhibition comprises 10 works including photo collages, installations, video art and multimedia works, created in 2010-2012. The exhibition is a continued version of his show in Royal Thai Embassy, London titled "The Impossible Dream", incorporating the mutation of meaning under evolving contexts and new environments, depicting the interaction of the human mind and artistic rendering into political meaning. 
 
Opening times: Tuesday – Sunday, 4-10pm
Free Admission
 
 
 
 
 

 

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PROXY

November 19th, 2011
Exhibition by PROXY
 
30 November 2011 – 13 January 2012
Opening Reception: Wednesday 30 November 2011, 7pm
 
WTF is pleased to announce an exhibition of companion multimedia works by Proxy on the 2nd and 3rd floor of WTF Café and Gallery, curated by Josef Ng.

Taking an ambiguous, almost tragicomic stance in interpreting an assortment of loaded placeholders, objects themselves from the realm of visual communication – film, video and web – they examine with forensic obsession the traces of abandoned data that underpin both public and private sagas.

The show features Anthem, a video installation spliced together from discarded 35mm film fragments salvaged from the floor of the Siam Theatre, 07:21, a multi-element installation and (Opposite) View, a CCTV video piece. 

 
 
Anonymous Bangkok-based collective Proxy have been working in the realm of public intervention and media installation on the street and in art galleries since May 2010.

Their recent works include The End, a three-metre-high stencil painted onto the perimeter fence of the former Siam Theatre on May 19th, 2011, and Interruption, a rooftop intervention, complete with anthem, commercials and a screening of the epic Gone With The Wind.

The End, designed to imitate a movie end title slate and unavoidable from the BTS platform, greeted bystanders for four days before being painted over on May 24th. Interruption meanwhile, featured, alongside the first blockbuster to hit the cinema forty-three years previous, a yellow-jacketed usher and Hollywood searchlights that lit up the demolition pit. The piece ended with film sputtering out of the projector gate and the insertion of the title card: ‘Please Stand By. We apologise for the interruption.’

As Proxy work anonymously, their background data has been redacted.
 
 
 
 

 

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Bitumen, Gold, Opium & Crows

October 5th, 2011

 

Exhibition by Justin Mills

14 October – 10 November  2011 at WTF Gallery, Bangkok

Opening Reception: Friday 14 October 2011, 7pm @ WTF Gallery

A Smear Of Gold In The Window And The Jewel Of Her Sin 

 ‘To me, paintings are not silent and music is not invisible, so painting is just as much about listening as it is about seeing. I’m just trying to do something that I feel is valid and viable, to make a kind of image that I’ve never seen or heard before, a painting with a quiet intensity, as compelling and enduring for me as a good Tom Waits track, with an effect that is always instantaneous." - Justin Mills

After exhibiting his 48 Portraits Of God last year, Justin Mills has produced a new series of paintings inspired by the music and lyrics of American singer-songwriter Tom Waits, the man who once said that ‘there ain’t no devil there’s just God when he’s drunk’. Mills is still intrigued by the highly-charged symbolic materials of earthy bitumen and ethereal gold but he now makes the rhythms and rhymes of the lexicon, the darkness and the light, an integral part of the ‘visual’, significantly transforming the spatial nature of visual art into something markedly temporal.

The iambic beat of the exhibition title subtly suggests an interplay between rich layers and juxtapositions of opposites; rubber-modified bitumen and spirit-based gold paint are thrown together with coloured acrylics to render mesmerising effects of appearing/disappearing, invading/dissolving, solace/menace all of which are echoed in the uniquely visceral and lung-crunching voice of Tom Waits whose music gets played more than anything else in Mills’ studio.

His subtle intertextuality and mimicry, engaging himself in a complex and time-consuming creative process of drawing, photographing, and computer-editing, and an integral approach to style, sources and subject matter, results in a unique, innovative rendition of beguiling, multi-layered surfaces and enigmatic images, that makes it difficult to dissociate him from the current renewal and vigour of contemporary painting. 

English text by Rathsaran Sireekan, art critic.

 

All the paintings will be available for sale. For list of paintings and prices, please contact the gallery.

 

Justin Mills’ biography

Justin Mills was born in the UK and has been based in Bangkok since 1996. He is a graduate of Bristol’s University of the West of England and Santiniketan, Visva-Bharati University in India, where he was awarded an MA in Fine Art in 1994. Mills has exhibited his paintings internationally including ‘A Brief View Of Everything’ at Chulalongkorn University Art Center in 2010, the 2nd Bangkok Triennial of International Print and Drawing at the Bangkok Art and Culture Center in 2009, ‘Brahma to Bapu’ at the Visual Arts Gallery in Delhi, India, curated by Rakhi Sarkar in 2002, and a collaborative installation at the Outpost Venice Biennale in Venice in 1995.

 

Visitor Information:

WTF Cafe & Gallery
www.wtfbangkok.com
7 Sukhumvit Soi 51
Bangkok 10110
BTS: Thong Lor Station

Opening times: Tuesday – Sunday, 4-10pm
02 662 6246 

For further information please contact:
Somrak Sila – Managing Director
Tel: (66) 2 662 6246, (66) 89 926 5474
Email: somrak@wtfbangkok.com

 

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Addiction to Diagrams

September 18th, 2011
15 September – 8 October  2011
Opening Reception
Thursday 15 September 2011, 7pm @ WTF Gallery
 
Exhibition on Information Visualization: Curated and Conceived by Gaia Scagnetti
 

“The power of a diagram is massive: it is synthetic because it can describe a highly complex object in one image; it is enlightening because it can reveal knowledge that was unnoticed; it is engaging because visualizations are beautiful. It gives people the possibility to interact, understand and  deal with numbers, data, complex topics and intricate problems.”

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WTF Gallery is pleased to announce an interactive exhibition, Addiction to Diagrams, by Gaia Scagnetti. The exhibition is an interactive and educational display of information visualization, showing how data and numbers can be reconstructed into fun and engaging visual representations.

In this exhibition, Gaia curates her information visualization and mapping projects including the project developed with density design "City Murmur" which aims to show how the media differently describes the urban space through the attention that is given to each street of a city. In the hypothesis of the increasing importance of the online presence in contemporary society, a media geography has been generated intersecting the media scape with the geographical reality of the city.

In additional, there will be interactive panel that is developed from the concept of social network ‘relationship description’ which will be presented via the connection of expanding lines or colors. The audiences will be encouraged, during the exhibition, to add themselves and expand the graphs.
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Gaia Scagnetti’s Bio Gaia Scagnetti is a PhD Researcher and Communication Designer whose investigations focus on the exploration and development of a Visual Epistemology for Strategic planning and Design education. Gaia is now senior Lecturer at the International Communication Design Programme in the? Faculty of Architecture at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. Before moving to Thailand she has been Post-Doctoral researcher and design strategist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she conducted qualitative research for design in the topic of social sustainability, connectivity and mobility.

In 2009 she obtained a PhD cum meritus in Industrial design and Multimedia Communication at the Politecnico di Milano. Her thesis work – The design practice of complexity. Communication atlas for social system integration processes – focused on the application of Complexity Science to the practice of Design in the context of social sustainable integration processes.
Her works have been featured in several conferences and exhibition (Academic Leaders Program) Tecnológico de Monterrey 2011, the MIT Humanities + Digital Conference, NetSci 2010 – Arts | Humanities | Complex Networks, the Virginia Tech Educate 09 Conference, SIGGRAPH 09 Emerging technology Conference, the Media LAB Prado – Visualizar 08 and publications and showcases (DataFlow 2, VisualComplexity.com).

For her complete portfolio visit namedgaia.com

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Visitor Information
WTF Café & Gallery
7 Sukhumvit Soi 51, Wattana, Klongton-Nua, Bangkok 10110
BTS: Thonglor Opening times: Tuesday – Sunday, 3-10pm
www.wtfbangkok.com

For further information please contact:

Somrak Sila
Tel: (66) 2 662 6246, (66) 89 926 5474
Email: somrak@wtfbangkok.com

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FLOATING sculptures by Sutee Kunavichayanont

September 17th, 2011

 

FLOATING

29 APRIL –  31 OCTOBER 2011

Opening Reception on 29 April 2011, 7pm 

Exhibition to be launched as part of What The Festival – 29-30 April 2011

WTF Gallery is pleased to announce an installation of sculpture, Floating, by Sutee Kunavichayanont and the special pre-show offer available from now until 30 April 2011.

Floating is a work that invites you to contemplate beyond the physical realm. The sculptures are detached from the earth — like a consciousness set free. How so? From dreaming, meditating, taking drugs and alcohol or affected by a magic spell? Is it floating because of imagination, reality or deception?

Sutee Kunavichayanont is a leading Thai artist who encourages the viewer to directly and indirectly to participate in his work. Sutee asks the viewer to question, act and react to his works as well as to question themselves and the circumstances around them. Artistic themes that are prevalent in his work are strongly linked to the history and customs of Thailand. Overall his work is sensitive to art, history, politics, his audience and his materials. He uses various mediums including, fiber glass, neon, school desks, metal and gold leafing.

He has had numerous exhibitions in Thailand, Australia, France, Germany, and Korea. His solo exhibtions have been presented by Phuket 346 (Thailand), 100 Tonson Gallery (Thailand), Atelier Frank & Lee (Singapore) Thai Art Foundation (The Netherlands) Optica (Canada) and Musashino Art University (Japan). He also co-curated Thailand’s contribution to the 2005 Venice Biennale. Sutee is also a well known writer and art critic. 

Installations of Sutee’s have been acquisitioned by H+F Collection (The Netherlands), Singapore Art Museum (Singapore),Thai Farmers Bank PCL (Thailand), Thai Investment and Securities PCL. (Thailand), LASALLE College of the Arts (Singapore),Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (Japan), Queensland Art Gallery (Australia) and Mori Art Museum (Japan).

Art Work Description:
Year: 2011
Technique: Fiberglass
Dimension: Life size
Material:Fiber glass; Yellow Neon

Edition of 9

100,000 Baht per sculpture (excluding VAT)

For further information please contact:
Somrak Sila – Managing Director
Tel: (66) 2 662 6246, (66) 89 926 5474
Email: somrak@wtfbangkok.com

 

WTF Café & Gallery
7 Sukhumvit Soi 51, Wattana, Klongton-Nua,
Bangkok 10110

 

 

 

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Deep Dots

July 19th, 2011

Olarn Chiaravanont: Deep Dots

A Painting Exhibition
4 – 31 August 2011 at WTF Gallery, Bangkok

 
Opening Reception
Thursday 4 August 2011, 7pm @ WTF Gallery
 
WTF Gallery and Phuket 346 are pleased to announce a painting exhibition, Deep Dots, by Olarn Chiaravanont. The exhibition is his first solo show in Thailand. It is comprised of 9 paintings made during his MFA degree course at Goldsmiths College, London, and in Bangkok, during 2010-2011.
 
Olarn’s work drifts in and out between abstraction and representation in a dialogue, where the paintings are able to open themselves up to suggest endless visual possibilities. The hints of awkward, playful imagery in the paintings, creates a relationship with the audience that bridges the absence of reality — allowing the viewer to “see what we want to see, feel how we want to feel”.
 
“My painting represents the visual development of my consciousness in relation to everyday visual perceptions. The challenge of the practice lies within the organisation of ideas, while trying to reduce rules and restrictions to allow more freedom to paint. I intend to endlessly expand the visual possibility of my painting through the process of paint layering, mark making and experimenting how each individual shape and form combined to become a figurative painting and beyond. The reading of the painting lies just outside what would be the most likely interpretation. It is to be a painting that suggests different possibilities.”
 
Olarn was born in 1986 in Bangkok, Thailand. He is currently studying his last year in Master of Fine Arts at Goldsmiths College, University of London. His work has been exhibited in several galleries in London including, Islington Contemporary Art Fair at Candid gallery (2008) and The Bricklane Gallery (2009).
 
The exhibition is shown at WTF Café & Gallery, Sukhumvit Soi 51, Bangkok from 4-31 August 2011.
The show moves to Phuket 346 at Soi Romanee, old Phuket Town, in the near future. Date to be announced. 
 
 
 
Visitor Information
WTF Café & Gallery 
7 Sukhumvit Soi 51, Wattana, Klongton-Nua, Bangkok 10110
www.wtfbangkok.com
BTS: Thonglor Opening times: Tuesday – Sunday, 3-10pm 
Free Admission
 
Phuket 346
15, Soi Romanee, Old Phuket Town, Phuket 83000
www.phuket346.com
Opening hours: Monday – Saturday, 10am-8pm
 
For further information please contact:
Somrak Sila 
Tel: (66) 2 662 6246, (66) 89 926 5474
Email: somrak@wtfbangkok.com
 
Jorge Carlos Smith
Tel: (66) 81 893 5698
Email:  phuket346@gmail.com

 

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Global exhibition “Change this world! 50 years of poster for Amnesty International (1961-2011)”

May 10th, 2011

WTF Gallery and Café Hosts global exhibition “Change this world! 50 years of poster for Amnesty International (1961-2011)”

 
OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY 14 MAY 2011, 6.30pm
Exhibition on view from 14 May – 13 June 2011
WTF Gallery, Sukhumvit Soi 51, Bangkok
 
"Artwork is instrumental to challenge tyrants and oppressions throughout the histories. Those images are like loudspeakers that resonating the spirit of those longing for freedom and justice. Indeed, a painting cannot free people from the claws of the oppressor. However, that painting might lighten up tens, perhaps hundreds people to see the injustice that eroding our society. In addition, persuade those people to stand up, and take action to change this world – to be a better place with equality and fairness."
 
Amnesty International Thailand cordially invites you to visit a global exhibition “Change this world! 50 years of poster for Amnesty International (1961-2011)” to commemorate the 50th Anniversaries of Amnesty International – a volunteer-based international organization working to protect and defend human rights worldwide. Amnesty International conducts researches and campaigns to end human rights violations – particularly rights and freedoms enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
 
Posters displayed at this exhibition are collected from Amnesty International’s campaigns in the past 50 years from every corners of the world. The posters communicate a variety of messages including freedom, prisoner of conscience, civil and political rights. These posters demonstrates that the power of artists’ creativity can transmit the people’s will from those who desire for freedom, equality, and respect for human dignity. This people’s will is timeless and beyond frontier.
 
Visitor Information
Opening times: Tuesday – Sunday, 3pm-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
Khun Naowarat
Tel. 02-513-8745 / 02-513-8754
Email: admin@amnesty.or.th
 

 

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This Was A Magazine

March 22nd, 2011
Wednesday 30 March, 7pm | Opening Reception
 
CHRISTOPHER WISE: THIS WAS A MAGAZINE
30 March – 7 May 2011
 
WTF Gallery is pleased to announce an installation of photographs by Christopher Wise. His work recalls his experience working as a photographer for travel magazines around the world and pays homage to an era when film was the common format for capturing images. The history of his assignments and published stories comes to life through optical prints (made from negative enlargements rather than digital prints or digital image capture) as well as contact sheets and pages from the magazines where the images were published.
 
 
 
All of the prints in the show were made to be published in physical magazines, where four colors of ink—cyan, magenta, yellow and black—are layered on paper to create images. The images were created by light affecting photosensitive emulsion on film, an analog process that continued with the resulting negative being used to filter light onto photosensitive paper, transformed briefly into digital form for the pre-press process, before returning to analog pages again and bound together to make a magazine. The prints were made from 1999-2009, when most magazines still preferred to work with film. Since then transition to digital has become complete—and some titles now exist only in digital form, to be experienced as glowing images from computer screens or tablets.
 
The photographs in THIS WAS A MAGAZINE document the places and stories that Christopher Wise passed through, and also a photographer’s evolution and education, from beginner to professional, and from visitor to resident of Thailand.  Like saved tickets to a show, the stub of a boarding pass, or a restaurant bill, the prints are now relics from the photographer’s small adventures in the world.
 
The prints will be available to buy and take away after the opening night. Once they are taken off the wall, the buyer will write instead: THIS WAS A PHOTOGRAPH OF…. Therefore, as the show progresses the gallery will empty—and others take away the images, to imbue them with their own memories and meaning.
 
His work has been published in Travel+Leisure, Budget Travel Magazine, Conde Nast Traveler US & UK, Gourmet, Departures, Men’s Vogue, GQ, Details, Monocle, Men’s Journal, ITT 2006 Annual report. His photographs have been recognized by the American Photography (AP) competition — images were chosen for AP 17, AP 21 and AP 23. His personal photo essay, Pattayaland, was shown at the Angkor Photography Festival 2007 and exhibited at Kathmandu Gallery, Bangkok in 2009.
 
Christopher Wise grew up in the woods of  Vermont. He has worked as a photographer based in Bangkok since 2001. Before pursuing photography he was a graphic designer in New York running his own agency
 
Visitor Information
Opening times: Tuesday – Sunday, 3-10pm
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 – Managing Director
Tel: (66) 2 662 6246, (66) 89 926 5474
Email: somrak@wtfbangkok.com

 

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Disc Is Dead, Disco Is Alive!

January 9th, 2011

Sutthirat Supaparinya: Disc is Dead, Disco is Alive!
Installation Art Exhibition

12 January – 8 March 2011 

WTF Gallery presents Chiang Mai based artist Som Sutthirat Supaparinya’s first major exhibition in Bangkok since 2004. Acclaimed for her video installations and inter-active arts, Sutthirat’s work reports on encounters and situations that she renders into artistic metaphors. The exhibition is politically inspired and underlines the adverse social impact derived from the rapid development of technology and media. Whether it is the lack of freedom of expression, the distorted content of news and media influenced by government during Thailand’s last political crisis, or the sore-eyed bombardment of advertising in the public arena, Sutthirat reflects her acute sensitivity to politics and contemporary society  into a conceptual engagement, through installation art techniques.
 
 Born in 1973, Sutthirat is a curator and visual artist working and living in Chiang Mai, Thailand.? She graduated with a Master Scholar of Media Arts from Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig, Germany.  She is a guest lecturer in the “Thai and Southeast Asia Studies Program”, Payap University and Media and Communication Technology at Chiang Mai Rajabhat University.  Acclaimed for VDO and installation artist, her works have been shown in Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Korea, Australia, and Italy. She has also participated in the 3rd Guangzhou Triennial in China.
 
The exhibition comprises five installations all created during 2005-2011. Two of the works will premiere at WTF gallery, portraying the interplay between the medium and the message, the mutation of meanings thereof, mediated by context.
 
The exhibition is supported by Chic39 Bed & Breakfast (www.chic39.com), Jim Thompson Art on Farm, Vodka Stolichnaya and Canon.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Visitor Information
Opening times: Tuesday – Sunday, 3-10pm
Free Admission
WTF Café & Gallery
7 Sukhumvit Soi 51, Wattana, Klongton-Nua, Bangkok 10110
www.wtfbangkok.com
BTS: Thonglor 
 

 

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Sina Wittayawiroj: Site Specific Projection

December 4th, 2010

15 -31 December, Screening 9:00 & 11:00pm

Sina Wittayawiroj is a graduate student from Silpakorn University, major in New Media art. He’ll be showing a extraordinary new site specific work, experimenting with the movement of light, sound and colour in a completely static environment to connect and challenge human’s perception through new dimensions of vision and hearing.

The project will be displayed from 15 – 31 Dec 2010, at 9 and 11pm. 

 

Earlier project – Corner #0.3


http://vimeo.com/16400265

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