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

NUT SAENCHUEN: Pak Wa Ta Kayib (Winking While Talking)

OPENING PARY >> Friday, 5 November 19:00 

5 Nov – 5 Dec 2010
Tuesday – Sunday  3 pm – 10 pm 

2nd Station Exhibition by the graduate students of Art Theory, Silpakorn University

If man’s thought is a means of transport, things visible to our own eyes would be the "1st Station" of the material world. And if the mind travels further to the "2nd  Station", one can find special hidden things. Although the way to the 2nd  Station is ambiguous, one has to examine, contemplate, and gradually move along.

2nd Station is a contemporary art exhibition that encourages the audience to discover the potential meanings of art beyond material world, by moving from the 1st Station, the image of art object, to the 2nd Station where only the mind could reach.

WTF Gallery is pleased to announce a 2nd station, an art exhibition by Dusadee Huntrakul, Thana Hataiwanitsiri, Jutamas Chayawanich on 2nd, 3rd floor of WTF Café & Gallery. The exhibition organized by Shinkanzen, a group of ten graduate students from Silpakorn University, comprises three different sets of recent artwork by three artists. In the first collection, Dusadee will show his conceptual art through 10 thought-provoking sticker messages created under the concept of self-censorship. In the second set, Thana shows black-and-white photographs to unfold the ”abstract” beauty of lines, dimensions, and rhythmic compositions of urban architecture. Juthamas’ Intaglio prints, in the third collection, give hints of the mysterious bond between man and place over time.

Artists

Dusadee Huntrakul’s life is full of journeys. He usually collects new experiences while traveling as a source of inspiration to create his artwork. “You touch my jellyfish. I touch your oyster.” was his debut exhibition at THE STUDIO, Inglewood, CA  in 2007. Later that same year he continued with his second show,  “Can we sit on it?”, at UCLA New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Recently, in 2010, Dusadee has exhibited “Incognito 2010” in Santa Monica Museum, California, and has been a selected artist in ‘Brand New 2010′, organized by Bangkok University Gallery (bug) where his work recounted the story of his eventful journeys combined with imaginary wanderings.

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Thana Hataiwanitsiri has a passionate interest in art, especially architectural photography, in which the photographer is able to articulate colours, lines, lights and moments to precisely capture the "perfect" elements within each photograph. In the “Line & Dimension” series, Thana discloses his particular vision through the piquancy of lines, lights and shadows. Thana’s past works were included in “A Decade of Light & Shadow” exhibition in 2006 at I-Gallery and in “Move on” run by Department of Communication Art and Design, Faculty of Architecture, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang in 2007.

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Jutamas Chayawanich has mastered a variety of techniques in printmaking during university and has been featured in a number of art exhibitions in Thailand and abroad. She grew up peacefully in an old, traditional house and her childhood memories have become a source of inspiration for her artwork ever since. Despite living a fast-paced city life, old buildings in Bangkok remind Juthamas of the quite moments of her childhood, reflecting the buried sentiments that she can never forget.

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OPENING PARY >> Thursday, 7 October 18:00

7 Oct – 31 Oct 2010
Tuesday – Sunday  3 pm – 10 pm 

Nocturne documents photographic works of photographers Pengii Tanaboon and Peduckk. Both spearhead “nightlife photography” movement which is still a novelty in Thailand. Their works differ from the usual event photography where celebrities strike a pose in front of a backdrop full of logos. Pengii and Peduckk retell and document the lives of the 20-somethings underground and semi-underground clubbers in Bangkok.

Pengii Tanaboon >
Pengii captures the glare of party spot lights like car high-beams sweeping your consciousness. Overwhelmed by hard hitting music and sensations, his photos are distorted to serve the height of madness and that certain minute before all sanity is forsaken. He represents a time of no thoughts, but just reaction to the sound and mood coursing through your system, and you are the blinding centre of it.

Peduckk >
While Pengii’s photos delve deep in raw club energy, Peduckk operates on another end of spectrum. Her photographs show the before and after–parentheses of a wild night. They are full of preparation processes and dénouement of a night out surrounded by new and old friends. Peduckk softy tells a story of expectations, quirkiness, regrets, lost confidence, and unnoticed corners. It is as if the night has been stolen away like a passing glance in a mirror.

Teerapon Hosanga: The Form of the Formless
19 Aug – 29 Sep 2010

Shadowing the laws of physics and mathematics in creating complex structures, Teerapon Hosanga uses sculpture as a medium to conceptualize growth and flux and the intangible essence of nature.

The complex forms created by repetitive connections among different rigid materials like aluminium, wood, rock and brass tubes do not literally represent the process of growth, even if they often seem to aspire to familiar organic forms, but rather symbolize them. Some works conceptualize the artist’s perception of the dynamic movement that occurs in the creation of nature, whereas others embody his curiosity about how the laws of physics affect the process of making things. While they often symbolize abstract phenomena – lightning, gravity, the growth process – they are at the same time powerful physical objects in their own right. In thrusting into space as though forever on the point of resolving themselves into regular patterns but forever folding in on themselves or remaining as it were incomplete, provisional, deferred, they draw on both the sculptural theories of the 20th Century and the architectural thinking of the 21st.

The Form of the Formless insists on a bold understanding of the power of sculpture to document the passage of time, the changes to our environment, the way events build on events to shape people’s lives — in other words, to tell afresh the story of how we came to be.

>The exhibition is curated by Dr Axel Feuss

For Hi-res images of the exhibition please click to download here. Password: WTF

Beware it is Life, 2009
Wooden trunk, Wood, String, Brass tube
200 x 80 x 90 cm

Circle, 2009
Rock, Wood, String, Aluminum
270 x 270 x 220 cm

Rock, Wood, String, Aluminum

Dimension variable

Half, 2009

Rock, Wood, String, Aluminum

60 x 30 x 50 cm

Lightning, 2009

Rock, Wood, String, Aluminum

90 x 220 x 180 cm

What’s that floating outside of WTF?

Circle by Teerapon Hosanga, part of the upcoming show; Form of The Formless. WTF presents 6 sculptures for Teeerapon’s first solo show opening on August 19th.

‘Teerapon’s light, rhomboidal, light-flooded structures are close to architectural blueprints by Frank O. Gehry, abb architects, Vito Acconci or NOX architects from the last decade. His steep sloping spaces and dimensions, the “multi-sidedness” of his sculptures, and the seemingly organic growth of architectural spaces in every direction and every dimension are today found more so in avant-garde architecture than in the field of sculpture. As sculptures, but also as possible architectural models, Teerapon’s works seem therefore in every way surprising and modern”. – Dr. Axel Feuss

19 August – 5 October 2010

Opening Reception: Thursday, 19 August 2010, 6-8pm

See the artworks here>>

A glimpse of the gallery and work exhibited in WONDERFUL THAI FRIENDSHIP

Wonderful Thai Friendship is the first art exhibition at WTF Gallery. The show aims to introduce the exhibition space to the local community and Bangkok people at large. The exhibition takes the inspiration from a typical “summer show” in New York City, where a diverse collection of artists and work is organized around a theme —

often playful or irreverent. Wonderful Thai Friendship may be found in the commentary of the works themselves or from the simple fact many of the creators and curator are indeed good friends (or not!) Summer is a time to escape pressures and the heat (from the weather or man-made.) WTF will be a cool oasis in the city during these steamy months!

The exhibition features 13 artworks by 13 artists —Thais or reside in Thailand, both established and up-and-coming. The exhibition is comprised of varied contemporary media: drawing, printmaking, mixed-media, video installation, photography and performance.

All works are the artists’signature pieces and handpicked by Chattiya Nitpolprasert, the young Thai curator who co-curated Thai Pavillion at Venice Biennale 2009.

Wonderful Thai Friendship Exhibition is supported by Sherwin Williams, Paintworks Co., Ltd.

ARTISTS: Amrit Chusuwan - Gene Kasidit - Imhathai Suwatthanasilp - James Rupert - Krit Ngamsom  - Kwanchai Lichaikul - Landry Dunand - Michael Shaowanasai - Pisitakul Kuntalang  - Prateep Suthathongthai - Sakarin Krue-on - Santi Lawrachawee - Sutee Kunavichayanont