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Say Hi to Our New Painter. Her name is PSC2410. She painted Barbara Kruger's famous piece very quickly.

List of today new works;
Chamruang Vichienket, Family (ครอบครัว), 1971
Barbara Kruger, Untitled (I shop therefore I am), 1987

Syndromes and Fluorescences

Bar 23 in the middle of Soi Sukhumvit 23 (Soi Prasarnmit). It's a mini art venue + bar, which belongs to Freeform Magazine team who've tried to be a mouthpiece for Thai art scene for the past few years (with a dozen of issues). Luckily, tonight, the place was crowded with Japanese! We lost in translation and there were no space for us to keep in touch with this art scene. We're real otherness for them. Nobody cared about us even when we tried to get close to the bar or go to see the deserted upstairs with a small art magazine bookcase. So, we get out of there quickly.

Then we walked to Soi Cowboy nearby. It's a very wonderful eye-popping place and good space to take us away from art for a while.

Perhaps, this century, we might need more pink scenes to stay away from some boredom.

Art Fatigue Syndrome

We've talked about art scenes too much. We're starting to cloyed with them. Today, we lost Ton again. He gotta go back to wrap up his artworks in a thesis exhibition in Chiang Mai. And Fon, our great participant, did not come to help us.

No painters, no paintings.

Why most of Thai modern art masterpieces are paintings? However, Thongyhod finished his new sculpture mock-up, Baitong started some design master pieces, Kom tried to finish some unfinished works and Nong-Ar started to paint courageously.

Let's update the list of works;
David Bomberg, The Mud Bath, 1914
Prasong Patamanuj, Chedi Wat Pho (เจดีย์วัดโพธิ์), 1958
Chumraung Vichienket, Group (กลุ่ม), 1965
Philippe Patrick Starck, Juicy Salif, 1990

2 days ago, the German artist from Japan, Sebastian Loewe, became our spectator. He suggested us to visit an art bar on Sukhumvit Road. Tonight, we're gonna check it out. Hopefully, we're not gonna throw up as any art topics in the taxi on our way back to the gallery.

Bangkok Art Trip #3: Red & Yellow

Yesterday immediate trip, narrated by Ton - Pratompong Namjaidee.
We put down art equipments at 3 pm,
ready to get on a cross-river boat.
Then we got in a taxi to Bangkok University Gallery,
our first destination.

It was very crowded in the cab due to our five fully-developed figures. On our way to the gallery, the cab's radio was turn on loudly. The radio-listener who called was increasing more heat to the program by saying something about "Our Democracy". We looked outside the cab, saw a red pick-up car with our former prime minister's smile. It is actually a fan. "Red...Yellow...Red...Yellow" -- that's what we hear from that call.

Finally, we arrive. We walked through one of the university's gate, passed some buildings, saw some students, and walked along to the other side. This art gallery looks like it should.........

Brandnew 2009 is exhibited from March to April with two artists Olan Netrangsi and Kritsada Dussadeewanich and Gridthiya Gaweewong as a curator. The first room is on the second floor. "Dice" by Olan Netrangsi is an installation art that let the spectator to participate with it. A table game that we have to see the projected shaking dice-in-a-bottle video on the wall, which connected to a timer for a dice-roller that assigned us how many grids we can walk in one turn. If a player stops at the special grid, and participant has to do what the grid says. It's like a snakes and ladders game that we used to play since we were kids.

On the Fourth floor of the building. Kritsada Dussadeewanich, who is the owner of 24 hrs. Art Project that allow his artist friends to join. He presented the thinking process for artworking that is basically based on "space" more than the word "24 hrs.", which was presented in the title. It is "the new space", but it still lies in the meaning of "art space". This thinking process show us that the artist want to let formal "art spaces" such as art centers or galleries to rethink and see the importance of artists' thoughts, which are the main force that drive arts forward...

Visiting galleries is very exhausting. We all agree that we should eat something by the main cafeteria of the university. Smoothies and oily rice with fried mince pork were laid on the table. We spent half and hour eating and discussing what we've seen. Then we an underground train for 15 minutes from Klong Toei to Sam Yan to our next destination, BACC. We arrived there in the beginning of the night, which is a normal time for opening an exhibition. We walked to the second floor, looked down and saw art activities that was going on. It was very crowded and chaos with reporters holding cameras and video cameras.

Walking from the third floor to the venue of "Gondola al Paradiso Co., Ltd.", we saw the exhibition's text on a display window that tells us briefly about these art projects are going to move to show in the 53rd International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia in Italy. We spread out and took some pictures, some of us met their friends unexpectedly. Someone in the event looks very familliar, but we're not sure who they are. Perhaps they might be people who work in many art scenes we went to. "Art scene is very narrow." That's the first thing that comes to my mind. "It might be true." and that's the answer...

The art center served us the foamy, smooth drinks. We talked for a while and moved to the first floor to look at the room that will use for "Not Even Pineapples" exhibition on April 4th.

It's getting dark, and many official places had closed, so we decided to go to some place "unofficial". That unofficial place located near Hua Chang Bridge. We walked from the last official place of the day, along the footpath, across the bridge, to that unofficial place to do our official routine work.

Oh, we still heard the whisper "Red..Yellow..Red..Yellow" in our ears.

Bangkok Art Trip #2: Gallery Always Close on Monday

Weekly art trip, narrated by Thongyhod - Taviphut Praengoen
It's about 3 days ago. This week, there were only two of us that took a tour to art exhibition and gallery, Ton (a guy in picture) and me. And let's see what we did.

As in general sense of art, people know that gallery always close on Monday. So, we didn't have many choices, but some interesting places and art exhibitions are still open. First we went to the Silom Galleria, the art stuff shopping center. We saw a lot of shops (especially gems and ornaments shop) and showcases, and we visited some of the galleries in there.

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Nothing special, nothing surprise,
just a place for home-furnished lover. It's ordinary.

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Maybe art label has printed and came from the sky,
that's why it's so expensive and holy.

Next destination, we go to GOETHE Institute for photo exhibition "City Scene". I did not have any feelings with the scene they try promoting. It's just a general photo exhibition, considering both content and presentation. Those things made me reconsidered (in my mind) with 2 topics.

1. Cultural reproduction in Thailand today. What are we trying to do? And what are they trying to search and why are they trying to understand Thai?

2. Art in the meaning of technology of power. What is the agenda beneath? What have concealed under representation of art scene? (in general case)

3. 4. 5. 6... >>>

enough

It was a hot day.
We decided to have a break by drinking Coca-cola here.

Ahhhh....

Then we got on MRT and walk through Chulalongkorn Art Center for "Brandnew 2008", which was curated for Thai young artists, and also exhibit at Bangkok University gallery, but we will go there next time because it closed on Monday like most of gallery. That's alright..

First floor we got a "very warm" welcome from library staff at the gate, ha ha ha. The exhibition runs on seventh floor so we had to use the elevator.

Then what?

Like in the pictures, here we saw three projects from three artists of Brandnew 2008.

Photos, Drawings and Video Arts.......................???
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So that's all i remember. Nothing left for Monday.

P.S. A gal at registration desk of art thesis exhibition at Jamjuree Gallery is so cute and beautiful. It was a shot of that hot day. Sorry, I cannot post docu-photo here, this blog reserved for ART ART ART content only. Seriously.

see u.

tourISM

Let's take a look around our studio, Ver Gallery, with Taviphat. We can't make subtitles for you because of pirate video editing program problems. Sorry to foreigners.

N.E.P. Crews

It might be impolite to talk about 5 of us in every blog without introducing ourselves of the Not Even Pineapples exhibition to you.

Pratompong Namjaidee or Ton
He graduated from Chiang Mai University, Faculty of Fine Arts, majored in Painting. While studying painting, he expressed the idea about identity representation at that moment. The way of overlapping between space and time affects the identity expression. Besides, finding out reasons and factors also interfere the identity expression which is relate to "Mindset Reserch", in order to understand and reconsider in identity showing. This issue is presented through various kinds of art work such as paintings, mixed medium and videos.



Atikom Mukdaprakorn or Kom
The oblivist who use many memory recording tools without proficiency to create some art form that he always forget what he thinks in the beginning by the time he finished. Many many doubts in his head about uncertain identities and relations of people in the information era bring his artworks to the role of interactive and participative art. Sometimes, he forgets where the boundary of art is. So, forgive him when you notice that his art is not ART!, please.
http://sosharp.multiply.com/



Thanaphong Phromdee or Num




Nara Sirayanon or Baitong
Man who was born to be a "Duck"...or we can say that he can do everything but there's nothing he's good at. However, there's something that makes him become a "Super Duck" which is when he loves someone, he can do everything for her. If you wish to get something good from him, just be his beloved. N' it's not hard tho..cuz Baitong loves everyone!
http://202.28.25.135/~nara



Patipat Boonmungmee or Nong Ar
Our newcomer, the Chiang Mai-born musician and sound artist who had never came to Bangkok by himself. This is the first time he lives in Bangkok more than 2 days and he's having a great time living in the gallery. So, we have to take him visiting many places around Bangkok to make the trip worth his life.
http://aressic.hi5.com/



Taviphut Praengoen or Thongyhod
..."66 8 6658 4200" FYI.

We are art students in many classes of Thasnai Sethaseree, the artist who projected Not Even Pineapples, from the Faculty of Fine Arts & the Media Arts and Design, Chiang Mai University. Though we're art students but we're not really sure we'll be an artist in future. After this project, we might get some answers about our artistic lives.

Week of Confusion

We're sorry that we haven't updated our blog for a week. We are still staying at the gallery and mocking up more art masterpieces. Last week, we lost 3 of 5 crews including me (Atikom, the blogger) due to our own business about academic assignments in Chiang Mai. This biz made me feel uncertain about Arts. In my perspective, the boundary of art is expandable unlimitedly as long as it is processed to lead people to spaces in the land of ideas and imaginations by any means. There's no refusal but can be dicussed. As Jean Baudrillard said, "No matter how marginal, or banal, or even obscene it may be, everything is subject to aestheticization, culturalization, museumification", but after this assignment presentation, I feel like I crashed into the hardest wall that imprisoned me inside the art territory, I cannot go exploring the land of unknown outside. Even art has its own limitation.

I don't want to bother you with my complaints, just leave it there. It will pass us by, eventually. However, 2 of our guys, Taviphut and Nara was left here to continue the project. But while Thanaphong, Pratomphong and me go to Chiang Mai, Taviphat had a cold! Bangkok air pollution hurts him. So, Nara, the only one fine crew had to work alone.

5 days later, everything is better, Pratompong and me came back to Ver Gallery but Thanaphong had to work on his assignments in Chiang Mai until the end of this month. Luckily, we got a newcomer, Patipat Boonmungmee. During 5 days of confusion, we got some participants who work better than us, ha ha. Shortly afterwards, Taviphut recovered from his cold, and these are the list of our new works;

Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa (La Gioconda), 1503–1506
Claude Monet, Impression, Sun Rise (soleil levant), 1872
Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night (De sterrennacht), 1889
Marcel Duchamp, Bicycle Wheel, 1913
Max Ernst, The Elephant Celebes, 1921
Victor Vasarely, Outdoor artwork at the church of Pálos in Pécs, unknown
Salvador Dalí, The Persistence of Memory, 1931
Poom Malakul, Victory Monument (อนุสาวรีย์ชัยสมรภูมิ), 1941
Jackson Pollock, Autumn Rhythm No. 30, 1950
David Smith, CUBI VI, 1963
Pablo Picasso, Untitled sculpture (The Chicago Picasso), 1967
Andy Warhol, Campbell's Soup I, 1968
Chang Saetang, 14 October 1973 (14 ตุลา 2516), 1973
Cheewa Komolmalai, Struggle Face (ใบหน้าสู้ชีวิต), 1974
Yoshitomo Nara, Yellow in Blue, 2005

And these are helpful participants. Thank you all very much ;)