"Chahn's Impressions 2009"
A oil painting exhibition
by Chahn Sutarapong
1 July-2 August 2009
The Rotunda Gallery
In this 9th solo exhibition of Thai artist Chahn Sutarapong at our Rotunda Gallery he will show his new collection of oil paintings, including landscapes, nudes and portraits, which are painted in the beautiful soft-tone impressionistic style Chahn is known for.
"Lollipops"
A painting exhibition
by Rupali Jeswal
1 July-2 August 2009
The Garden Gallery & Café
In this new series of paintings Rupali Jeswal used lollipops as a metaphor for life in all its addictions. She blends rich hues in her brush strokes to create abstract to surreal images based on human design in all its vibrancy and vitality.
"Silence in Between"
A mixed media painting and installation exhibition
by Aksorn Rukpong and Pongtarin Bejrachandra
3-28 June 2009
The Rotunda Gallery and Garden Gallery & Café
Opening Reception, Saturday, 6 June, 5:00pm
With “Silence In Between”, Aksorn Rukpong and Pongtarin Bejrachandra make their Bangkok debut and show the exploration of the relationships between them, their feelings and the observation of every ordinary thing around them during their seven-year journey in the UK.
Aksorn Rukpong works as an Interior Designer and Painter. Most of her paintings show her fascination with the phenomenal qualities of light, the emotions and narratives associated with architecture and, in particular, Interiors.
In her recent work, Aksorn also explores the nature surrounds her, sequences of light and changing seasons, which have an effect on emotions and feelings. Her paintings portray stories, which randomly happen in different times and places, as if they were her memories emerging from and disappearing within the sea of light and colour suggesting a dream and fairly tale-liked world. She is experimenting on the coordinates of medium in order to create the distortion of light using the characteristic of liquidity and thickness, and luminosity and opacity to make the illuminated and ambiguous effects, which create mystery and imagination in her work.
Pongtarin Bejrachandra works as an Architect, Artist and Composer / Sound Artist. He is interested in an idea of using strategies, methodologies, concepts and processes from one art form to manipulate and create other art forms. With backgrounds in architecture and music, his work investigates possibilities and potential of a symbolic connection between these two disciplines.
In his recent work, Pongtarin explores a way to communicate the delicacy, sensitivity and vulnerability of structural matrices using systems of architectural drawing and diagram, and the computer-based music making processes. He elaborates these structural matrices in compositionally complex and intricate abstractions of two-dimensional drawing and three-dimensional construction, which are manually processed, manipulated, synthesised and deconstructed through the customary practice of architectural draughtsmanship.
Aksorn Rukpong graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art (Interior Design) from the Faculty of Decorative Arts, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand in 1995. She received a Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art and Design, The University of the Arts London, UK in 2007.
Pongtarin Bejrachandra graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from the Faculty of Architecture, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand in 1994. He studied Music Technology in Brighton, UK in 2006 and received a Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art and Design, The University of the Arts London, UK in 2007. Aksorn and Pongtarin have exhibited their works together many times in London, Brighton, Birmingham and Northampton, UK. “Silence In Between” is their first solo exhibition in Bangkok, Thailand.
In the UK, Pongtarin had an opportunity to work for record labels. Besides CD sleeve designs, one of his paintings was selected to be used as a CD sleeve artwork for Michael Manning’s album “Public”, released on Ai Records, UK in 2005. Aksorn and Pongtarin have exhibited their works together several times in London, Brighton, Lewes, Birmingham and Northampton, UK.
In 2009, Aksorn and Pongtarin set up Aksorn+Pongtarin Studio, an interdisciplinary design studio and painting studio based in Bangkok, pursuing unique and creative solutions in architecture, interior design, graphic design and sound design. In addition, Aksorn Rukpong and Pongtarin Bejrachandra are currently part-time instructors at the Interior Design Department, School of Fine and Applied Arts, Bangkok University, Bangkok, Thailand.
Opening Reception, Saturday, 6 June, 5:00pm
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