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The Designs of Udom Udomsrianan and the Art of Ruangsak Anuwatwimon, while paying respect to its beauty and underlining its fragility, are mainly questioning the paradoxes of our violent relationship towards nature. Through the spectrum of death and its rituals, Ruangsak presents us with a major installation work made of human hearts shaped sculptures. After collecting dead animals and having these bodies go through the ritual of cremation, the ashes and remains are mixed with natural resins in order to create the human hearts. The cremation, its religious-like process, underlines the necessity of rethinking our relations to our extended wilderness-bound family. As for Udom's "natural life" series which are his only creation not being made of raw natural materials, moreover the limited edition of 10 underlines further more the scarcity of species.
"Revenge" installation series depicts un-expected aspects of the relation between animal lovers and they beloved creatures where one loves the image of the other more than its reality.
"Revenge" inverts the positions of master and pet, placing it from the point of view of the animal seeking revenge beyond death for its years of captivity.
Through these installations, Ruangsak is applying the reversal of perspective process that is his trade mark in exploring the violence of relationships between man and nature. In this case violence is unveiled, from its hide-out : a sincere love feeling.
Of the work of Naoufel Bedraoui, Christoph Ruys, Director of the Antwerp FotoMuseum, recently wrote:
On the occasion of the exhibition opening, Douglas, from Cafe Belga, will perform an exclusive DJ set
MYHTS and RYTHMS for the new MILLENIUM opens the 7th of Feb and ends early April in Brussels, but the exhibition takes place simultaneously at Mar's Contemporary art centre in Moscow and Emmeotto gallery in Rome.
Antonio Pio Saracino is an Italian architect and artist who was born in southern Italy in 1976.
Fashion photographer, but not only. His personal work is fed with the question of gender. A very trendy theme these days, except that contrary to others, it is not the feminine-masculine or the 3rd sex theory that interest him, but rather the question of identity that is behind and linked to it. This is reflected in his work which gives him ground to experiment. This is why and also for ethic a reason, Punsiri has never accepted that fashion designer tell him what to do. Designers and publications he works for have always given him a lot of freedom: "Right from the beginning of my career, I only shot what I wanted to and the way I wanted to. I would rather my style to be hated than just average".
When he speaks about his work and his research on identity, one really gets this impression that Punsiri uses fashion as a means to be experimental, playing with images and impressions we get from them.
Daringly, he mocks traditional criteria attached to fashion photography: use beautiful models so that people want to buy the clothes they wear and give of themselves the same image. Punsiri does not hand over the ideal aesthetic of fashion models but instead creates characters that are extraordinary, that we cannot relate to because their attribute of identity are contradictory: a young boy wearing trash make-up; a woman dressed like a little girl; an Asian model with black skin, a transsexual dressed like a diva.
Because nobody can really relate to the models he photographs. Is that why his photographs strike us so much and sometimes disturb us? Hence opening the debate: are our identity classifications valuable? Are they healthy?
Exhibition : 28 May - 29 June at GMT+7 art&design Gallery : 258 Chaussee d'Ixelles, 1050 Brussels
Contact us: gmt7gallery@gmail.com
The gallery is opened Wednesday to Sunday 2.pm to 7.pm. or upon request
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Coming from a family of innovative silk screen printers that have just invented magnetic ink, Narttawat sees more in prints than just paper. Same goes with objects: "I don't see many products that have dimensions. Objects are stiff, not flexible and not organic. I'd like objects to be more movable, I'd like them to create illusion, play with your eyes and tease you. Why and object should be boring and have a limited life?!"
Thus Narttawat mocks the usual categories under which are separated visual arts, interactive installations and functional designs. Through his work he unifies usually separated department such as Science, Research & Development and Printing by using everybody's knowledge in a new perspective. Technology and research are his natural way to diversify his means of artistic expression.
His work is a material symbol of the part that artistic influx plays in industrial development and advanced technologies. This synergy makes all these disciplines greater, enriched from each other. Then printing is not only paper, Plexiglas is not only transparent, lamps are not only lights, industrial design does not only serve a function.
Together with his 3Ds and 4Ds lampe, large Plexiglas boards use kinetic graphics and optical effects, playing with perspective and space, as well as our visual senses.
Visit the exhibition "Layers of Light... " at GMT+7 or the Opening of the 04 February 2008
When working on these representations of the absolute, Montri Toemsombat chooses to not explore them through scholar or theoretical knowledge. Instead, he applies a willingly childlike look guided mainly by his instinctive sensibility. He does not try to tear the myth apart, but when incarnating these figures and reviving these instants of ideal(otherwise solidified in classical representations as well as in our own minds) he lets surprising new elements come out of the myth.
Thanks to the artist's lack of preconceptions, the audience itself is freed ofits own cultural and emotional formatting which allows it in returnto consider freely those familiar representations under a newperspective. Freed from the subconscious print of the myth, thespectator then becomes more than a passive simple product of his culture and myths; he becomes an actor, an individual person in front of his own culture.
In Montri's work, performances are always site specific; an intimate relationship between space and topic is developed: the location is an actor in the process of creation. It appears like location itself invites a particular classic myth representation. The recurrence of high places is to be put in relation with the universal concept of direct relationship between the notions of altitude / heavens. Therefore, in this work all performances took place in locations allowing direct vertical communication with the sky, on elevated grounds.
The outcome of this work is photographed. The pictures are then applied by the artist on a wooden frame of his conception wrapped in a Buddhist monk's robe fabric. Some specific parts (mainly faces) are torn apart and glued another parts of the picture. This final operation leaves holes in the scene, (where the orange monk robe is revealed) and invites the onlooker to a hide and seek game exiting his curiosity and interest.
From all these transformations, many new meanings can freely be found or developed by the spectator according to his own aspirations. The work iscalling for interpretation; it is a source of creative introspection. Long after it took place, the performances open doors in the onlooker's mind and generate several new layers of creation.
White Bird, the latest chapter of Nirvana / Paradise
During summer 2007, Montri Toemsombat visited Brussels where he organised the set up a chapter of his reseach. This time, the western myth of marriage was to be explored.
Performance took place on the gothic tower of the City-Hall, culminating at more than a 100m...
Since first appearing on the Thai contemporary art scene in 2000, Tawan Wattuya has continuously excelled at translating his provocative social visions into forceful artworks. He uses art as a weapon to break through the conventional image of the society he lives in. His distorted portraits emerge from cut outs of everyday magazines, newspapers, television shows and web sites. Mass communication is for him a playground where the darkest sides of his own culture can be exposed. As Marc Lathuillere puts it: "Every image is a double. The product of a mirror reproduced at high speed by the media. A proliferation that Tawan fully integrated in his previous project, shown in 2005: the head of then Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra painted 500 times, divided into 500 different faces exposed in one single room"
Tawan Wattuya reached new levels in the conceptual portrayal of his contemporaries with his work "Siamese Freaks! A modern courtyard of miracles", exhibited in November 2007 at the Numthong Gallery in Bangkok and originally inspired by the world famous figures of the Siamese Twins, Chang and Eng Bunker (1811–1874) who, "discovered" in Bangkok, travelled with Barnum's circus for many years. Due to their fame and the rarity of their condition, the term came to be used as a synonym for conjoined twins.
By using derived forms of their ill image to portray the emblematic figures of contemporary Thailand, Tawan delivers a bright and colourful overview of a decaying society. Politicians,celebrities, porn stars, traditional figures, seen in the mirror of his black and cunning humour, appear as double-faced monsters - leading us to question the mad society who's given them birth.
Much of Tawan's art is an unflinching commentary on Thai society and the individuals who penetrate the public psyche through celebrity or political activity. Numerous well-known faces appear in his paintings including Miss Universe Nathalie Glebova and former prime minister Taksin Shinawatra.
Wit Pimkanchanapong was born in 1976, Bangkok, Thailand. He is one of the few Thais who can be appropriately labelled a "media artist". His exhibited work often deals with Animations.
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Born in Suratthani in 1977,Suppapong Sonsang first studied Product Design at Silpakorn University in Bangkok (1994-1997), and furthered his master degree in Visual Communication Design at the same university (1999-2003). He set up his studio Redbox in 1999 in Bangkok and has worked with many of prestige Thai manufacturers such as Hygge for furniture, Jazzy for gift items, Panya for decorative objects, Heineken for promotional items. He is also a partner of Tazana, the lighting design studio of Thailand. He has also been teaching Furniture Design at Bangkok University since 1999. Constantly researching, he currently studies Northern Thai woodcraft which uses special carving technique such as in temples decorations, and is adopting these techniques to develop further his furniture.
Many awards celebrated his work: Prize Winner of "Gift design award 2000" Product Development Center, DEP; First Prize Winner of "Rubber Product Design contest 2002" Department Of Agricultural Extension; First Prize Winner of "Gift design award 2003" Product Development Center, DEP; Prizes at "Elle Decor & Propaganda Young Designer Award 2002 and 2004" Hachette filipacchic post Co., Ltd. ; " Designer of the year 2004" by Silpakorn University; " Best of the best designer of the year 2005" by Silpakorn University
He gained international recognition through fairs in Paris, Frankfurt, New York, London, Milan and Cologne and through publications in INTERNI (Italy), I.D. New+Notable2006 (USA); HOME LIGHTING & ACCESSORIES (USA); ICON (UK); FLARE (Canada); THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE (USA); ELLE DECO (Japan); AXIS (Japan); INTERIOR DESIGN (USA); SALON INTERIOR (Russia), etc.
2000: First Prize Winner of "Gift design award 2000" Product Development Center, DEP
Peeraphat works seamlessly mixes expert drawing skills and digital technology. The story unfolds as the drawn image interacts with prepared animation. Live Drawing is a live show that combines real-time drawing with pre-production animation, completed with live music. The result falls in twilight of still image and animation, cinematography and concert.
Haritorn contemporary works are generally recognised as the new generation sculpture who is attempting to "develop" Surrealistic forms and thoughts representing unconsciousness status on artistic works, by referring to Sigmund Freud's psychological theory. The various forms are applied to the technique of trimming down human figures, objects found in daily life and geometric structure of architecture. Thus these models become simple, ambiguous, and consist of numerous meanings which the audience can interpret differently. In addition Haritorn often selects different materials and color of bronze. By emphasing on the bronze colour presenting serious look he worked continuously with it for 6 years.
Haritorn says: "I have got my inspiration by creating miniature Buddha images in the old Thai society, which were simply made by hands and using no elaborated tools. They were successfully able to reflect the story and spiritual value of Thai people."
He likes to cast colour bronze reflecting vigorous shades of light blue, deep green, orange-red, and yellow. In general these colours are only used in the souvenir industry. They are a taboo taste in contemporary Thai sculpture. This time, Haritorn's idea shows contradiction and dissimilarity by using bronze (an old technique) with colours relating more to plastic objects and toys.
?• Haritorn Akarapat virtually withdrew from public exhibitions after his early career success culminating in 1991 with this winning of the Superior Prize at the 7th Henry Moore Grand Prize exhibition in Japan. Today, recognition of Akarapat art is almost exclusively from within Thailand.
After a BA in Film from the Communication Arts Department at Rangsit University, Nattaboon Trinathy worked for his family business (import of electrical and lighting equipment). In 2002 he founded RGB Lighting Design Ltd, one of the first Thai company specialised in lighting design for residential houses, hotels, department stores and restaurants. On top of managing his own company, Nattaboon mastered in 2006 in Lighting Design from the School of Architecture and Design (King Mongkut's University of Technology) and started turning his attention to designing lamps. After his graduation, he decides to create his own brand: Amalgamm+. Locally acclaimed as one of the best emerging young designers, Nattaboon does not pay attention to trends and market needs but takes his inspiration from his own needs to create designs he likes. As he says, "if people like them too and that they sell, that's a bonus!"
Airlines, the latest line he came out with, takes on a capsular form that draws from the following observation: "Air is all around, you can't see it but you can feel it. Once you recognise it, you will see how a wonderful thing can be created".
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