Exhibition                       :     Charles LaBelle
Artist                              :     Charles LaBelle
Exhibition Period            :     Saturday  December 17,2011  at 5.00
Exhibition Venue            :     Number 1 Gallery, The Silom Galleria Bld., Bangkok.

Number 1 Gallery is pleased to present the exhibition Charles LaBelle, with an ambitious architecturally inspired drawing installation by American artist Charles LaBelle.

Begun fourteen years ago, Buildings Entered is an ongoing, lifetime project in which LaBelle documents every building he physically enters.  Currently, there are over thirteen thousand buildings in the archive, with additional buildings being added almost daily.  Conceptual in nature, the project is both a diary and a historical document in which the artist’s own life and the space of the world intersect.

Recorded photographically, with the photos themselves never exhibited, LaBelle selects certain buildings to render in watercolor pencil atop gesso painted pages torn from a relevant theoretical tome.  These public drawings are incidental to the individual physical and philosophical encounter between the artist and the penetrated space, be it a famous landmark or a conspicuous 7-11. Asides from obvious profiles to specific urban geographies, indicative architectural nuances, and concurrent cultural characteristics, LaBelle’s art reflects personal behaviour patterns, as well as approaches to process, time-based, and performance art.

Exhibition                       :     OTAKU
Artist                              :     Charinthorn  Rachurutchata
Exhibition Period            :     Saturday  November 12,2011  at 5.00
Exhibition Venue            :     Number 1 Gallery, The Silom Galleria Bld., Bangkok.

        Number 1 Gallery is pleased to present the exhibition Otaku, with new photography and video works by Charinthorn Rachurutchata. In only her second solo exhibition, Charinthorn reflects upon the cult phenomenon of Cosplay, the costumed character role-playing derived from Manga and anime. Initially trained as a fashion photographer, Charinthorn’s elaborate photo constructions adopt the aesthetics of anime as well as the Christian symbolism superficially appropriated by Japanese cartoon and animation creators.

        Burgeoning into a global cultural trend that has permeated Thai youth culture, Charinthorn previously ran a specialised Manga comic book store in downtown Bangkok.  A self-confessed otaku, meaning nerd or geek, she is an occasional participant in this fantasy-obsessed community of illusory alter egos. Her embedded positioning offers a unique artistic perspective that explores aspects of self-realisation and belonging, fetishism and adoration, lifestyle branding and cultural imperialism.
A BA graduate from Sukhothai University, 29-year-old Charinthorn Rachurutchata began her career as a photographer for Cheeze magazine. She held her debut solo exhibition Bubble (2010) at RMA Institute in Bangkok, and has also participated in the group exhibitions Within These Walls (2010), at the Bangkok Art & Culture Centre (BACC), and Up to You (2011) at Bangkok’s Dungderm Hotel. Her latest short film, Shanghai Mansion (2011), was commissioned by the Hot Short Film programme to air on Thai PBS. 

Opening reception    :   17  September 2011
Exhibition Period       :   September 17 -  October 31 ,2011
Exhibition Venue        :   Number 1 Gallery, The Silom Galleria Bld., Bangkok.

Number 1 Gallery is pleased to announce the art exhibition Already Mades with new three-dimensional works by Krit Ngamsom. Marking his third solo exhibition, the whimsical installation features a new series of mixed media sculptures that appropriate and re-contextualise significant creations in 20th century art. Looking to such artistic heavyweights as Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Nam June Paik, Jeff Koons, and Damien Hirst, Krit fancifully reinterprets iconic art objects. 

Having only ever viewed such masterpieces as Duchamp’s Dada Fountain (1917) or Dali’s surrealist Lobster telephone (1936) as reproductions within the pages of arts publications, Krit considers artworks he has yet to physically experience through inspirational realisations from his own imagination.

Manifested as carnivalesque post-modern parodies, Krit customs an art amuseument park in which the historical significance of such pivotal artworks is celebrated and subverted. Krit’s artistic shanzhai also has implications to authenticity, commodity, and the role of art as entertainment.

Hailing from Phichit province in Thailand’s north, in 2008 Krit graduated with a MA in Visual Art from King Mongkut Institute of Technology Ladkrabang. Known for creating engaging kinetic artworks that combine everyday objects, the 28-year-old artist has participated in the group exhibitions Bangkok Bananas at Central World (2009), Bangkok 226 and Traces of Siamese Smile at the Bangkok Art & Culture Centre (both 2008), as well as the 2010 solo exhibition Sparkle at Thavibu Gallery.

Exhibition Period     :       August 26, - August 29, 2011     
Exhibition Venue     :       Art Taipei 2011   Booth no. B16. World Trade Centre, Teipei.

Number1Gallery proudly presents  “Number 1 gallery in Art Taipei 2011” by Jirasak Plaboothong, Ong-arj Loeamornpagsin, Thanrak Sangsuwan  

Jirasak Plaboothong ,Emotional - sense of what is in all men. Sometimes more difficult to find and understand the pressure from environmental factors - different rules around the key variables. Each man must find ways to strike a balance between feeling and what the impact from External to the existence in harmony with the world which turning between  day and night

Ong-arj Loeamornpagsin ‘s works shown in this event is bizarre, eccentric and ethereally impressive. It is also the contemporary art reflecting people action, behavior, attitude on the way of life in the present day  that you can’t find anywhere else.

Thanrak Sangsuwan  ’s visual alter ego subverts the cute kawaii graphic-art style into something more sinister. Questioning what instills goodness in our genetic make-up, Thamarak’s visual approach holds a certain affinity to the art of Yoshitomo Nara. 

Exhibition                 :     Naughty by Nature       
Artist                        :     Thanrak  Sangsuwan  or  “ Ma-Deaw Sri Lhan-Yai-Prik ” (  pen name )
Opening reception    :     Friday 1 July 2011  6.00 pm.
Exhibition Period       :     1 - 23 July ,2011     
Exhibition Venue      :      Number 1 Gallery, B1 Floor.The Silom Galleria Bld.,Silom 19 Bangkok.


Number1Gallery proudly presents  “Naughty by Nature ” by Thanrak  Sangsuwan , Having established a cult following as a cartoonist under the penname of Ma-Deaw Sri Lhan-Yai-Prik, which roughly translates as ‘Grandma Prik's Grandson’, artist Thamarak Sangsuwan transforms his mainstay illustrative character into painterly expressive canvases.
Previously Thamarak studied at the College of Fine Arts  in Ladkrabang, and in 2007 held the solo exhibition Poz & Me at Art Republic in Bangkok. Mischievous in intent, Thamarak’s visual alter ego subverts the cute kawaii graphic-art style into something more sinister. Questioning what instills goodness in our genetic make-up, Thamarak’s visual approach holds a certain affinity to the art of Yoshitomo Nara. 

Exhibition Period               :     May 24, - May 29, 2011     
Exhibition Venue               :     Booth 3C12,Hongkong International Art Fair  2011

Number1Gallery proudly presents  “Oceanic Wilderness ” by Kriangkrai Kongkhanun and this is very special Exhibition.The Exhibition will be displayed  at Hong Kong International Art Fair2011.

A vast expanse of the planet’s surface, the world’s oceans are one of the last unexplored territories for man to unfurl and inevitably exploit. Since ancient times, the great blue seas have stirred the depths of the human imagination, invoking myths of the monstrous creatures like the Kraken, or more seductive mermaids and sirens. In Thailand’s rich spiritual and animistic iconography, the water dwelling Naga serpents are powerful protective deities.

A magnet for tourists, the foreboding reality of Thailand’s coastal waters is one of over fishing and increasing pollution from manmade detritus. Netted by negligent fisherman, the Irrawaddy dolphin is close to extinction and the graceful turtle fares little better in a bleak forecast for Asia’s aquatic species. 

Artist                                      : Jirasak Plaboothong, Chalermpon Ratanakomonwat, Karuna Panumes
Opening reception                : Thursday, May 19th 2011        
Exhibition Period                  : May 19th, - June 18th, 2011  
Exhibition Venue                  : Number 1 Gallery, The Silom Galleria Bld., Bangkok.

Number1Gallery proudly presents  “Facade” , by  three of Number 1 Gallery’s most talented painters In Facade, painters are brought together for the shared capability of their portraiture. Each artist utilises their own idiosyncratic facial representations as metaphors for personal psychologies, with implications to broader societal referencing and the consequences of man’s self-serving actions.

he scratched, layered patina of Jirasak Plaboothong’s intense facial studies imbue the archaic, suggesting a collectivised knowledge of man through the ages, but that such wisdom should be weighed carefully.           Trapped within self-indulgent recesses of the mind, Chalermpon Ratanakomonwat’s twisted studies paint a tormented picture of inner anguish, indicating the destructive nature of delusional obsessions.  

theatrical penumbra of light and shadow, the superficial tranquility of female painter Karuna Panumes’ deceptively seductive self-portraits, are suggestive of inner darkness and the elusive attainment of spiritual calm.         Within the historical context of portrait painting and against a growing proliferation of digitised facial imaging propounded through social media, the three artists manifest highly individual self-expressions to ponder the complexities facing Thai society at this pivotal juncture.

Exhibition                              Obsessive Compulsive
Artist                                     Vasan sitthiket
Opening reception                April 1, 2011 at  6 pm.
Exhibition Period                   April 1, 2011 -   May 7, 2011.Monday - Saturday,
                                             10   am. -  6 pm.
Exhibition Venue                   Number 1 Gallery, The Silom Galleria Bld., Bangkok.

In Femme Fatale, Chakaphan centres his fantastical narratives upon the female figure as his metaphoric subject. Portrayed as beautiful temptresses, his seductive muses are deceptive illusions to reality, their vulnerability and fallibility symbolic to life’s falsities.

Incorporating music as a further analogy, the high and low pitches of a score mirroring the journey through life, he considers that from infant to parenthood, existence is intangible and transitory with external forces dictating destiny.

Previously Chakaphan directed his brush toward the transgender community, exploring notions inner truth. An MFA graduate from Silpakorn University, Chakaphan’s painterly style is evocative to several of the great canonical artists from Western art history.

Exhibition:                       Femme Fatale
Artist:                              Chakaphan Ratanachan
Opening reception:       March 3, 2011 at  6 pm.
Exhibition Period:          March 3 -  March 26, Monday - Saturday
                                          10am -  6  pm.
Venue:                              Number 1 Gallery, The Silom Galleria Bld., Bangkok.

In Femme Fatale, Chakaphan centres his fantastical narratives upon the female figure as his metaphoric subject. Portrayed as beautiful temptresses, his seductive muses are deceptive illusions to reality, their vulnerability and fallibility symbolic to life’s falsities.

Incorporating music as a further analogy, the high and low pitches of a score mirroring the journey through life, he considers that from infant to parenthood, existence is intangible and transitory with external forces dictating destiny.

Previously Chakaphan directed his brush toward the transgender community, exploring notions inner truth. An MFA graduate from Silpakorn University, Chakaphan’s painterly style is evocative to several of the great canonical artists from Western art history.

Exhibition:                   Naked
Artist:                           Wutigorn Kongka
Opening reception:   January 28, 2011 at  6 pm.
ExhibitionPeriod:       January 28 -  February 20, Monday - Saturday10am -  6 pm.
Venue:                          Number 1 Gallery, The Silom Galleria Bld., Bangkok.

For his third solo exhibition artist Wutigorn Kongka, a lecturer at King Mongkut Institute of Technology Latkrabang (KMITL), presents his latest series of statuesque acrylic canvases that are testament to the continuing vitality of painting as a medium.
In Naked, Wutigorn strips bare the veil of the modern human condition into a fanciful composite construct of our primal physical and psychological preoccupations. Now in his forties, a more contemplative and content artist unravels the subconscious lucidity of dreams, discovering romantic notions to gender relationships, sexual chemistry, power and control.
Drawing inspiration from the physiology of human iconographic representations, Wutigorn finds aesthetic commonality in ancient Greco-Roman statuary and antique Khmer sculpture, as well as more contemporary associations to Damien Hirst’s anatomical giant, and Lucien Freud’s painterly figuration. 

 

Mirina Bay Sands Exhibition
and Convention Centre.
Basement 2, Hall D, E & F 10
Bayfront Avenue, Singapore 018956

Number1Gallery cordially invites you to attend “Ecce Homo” Solo Exhibition by Vasan Sitthiket at ArtStage Singapore 2011 during January ,12-16 2011. Hope you will join us at Booth D4-05 at the Marina Bay Sands Exhibition and Convention Centre

December 16, 2010 -  January 15, 2011.
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Number1Gallery proudly presents Longing for Siam, Inventing Thailand, by Sutee Kunavichayanont   an exhibition of contemporary art that yearns for a past when Thailand, her borders constantly shifting and indeed sometimes contracting even as she sought territorial expansion, was on the brink of becoming a powerful nation.

Sutee Kunavichayanont is a leading Thai artist who first came to prominence in 1998 with his elephant, buffalo and tiger-shaped breath donation sculptures crafted from rubber. A second seminal series, History Class, was begun in 2000. Interactive, the series, appearing in several forms from the turn of the century, is composed of re-appropriated children’s wooden school desks that the artist has engraved with scenes illustrating Siamese/Thai history. Extending an invitation to all viewers to make rubbings from the engraved surfaces of the desks, Sutee is in fact giving his audience the opportunity to produce their own Thai political history text books.

Sutee had participated in several significant international art events such as 1st Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Arts (1999) in the United Kingdom, and the 5th Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, Australia (2006). His works are in the collections of prominent art museums and galleries worldwide including the Mori Art Museum, Japan, The Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan, the Singapore Art Museum, Singapore, and the Queensland Art Gallery, Australia. In 2006, Sutee received a prestigious Manas Siensing Red Award 2 from the Pridi Banomyong Institute for his outstanding artistic creations and art related contributions.

November18 - December11 2010.
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“Don’t importune, I’m willing’ is implied painting and sculpture exhibition profoundly created by Ong-arj Loeamornpagsin- an immortal, implied artist.

Every piece of his works shown in this event is bizarre, eccentric and ethereally impressive. It is also the contemporary art reflecting people action, behavior, attitude on the way of life in the present day that you can’t find anywhere else. You should not miss. Come and see.

Number1Gallery proudly invites you to be a part of art exhibition “Don’t importune, I’m willing’ by Ong-arj Loeamornpagsin on Thursday November18, 2010 , 6.00pm at Number1 Gallery, Floor B1, Silom Galleria Building.

7  –  30 October 2010.
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 "...Time lapse every day. Day after day, 70 year of everyone  are used together. Sometimes aware. Sometimes unconsciously, but all feel Hidden stored in memory. When i reminded the good times ever touch. I saw the thing around all over me come  and go quickly . Life expectancy in all body cells die every day. But one thing engraved on to us is a memory. when memory becomes work. It is the only thing that represented the beauty of precious lives. This is above the identity above time..."   Suriya Namwong 
         "......outstanding work as a form of continuity from the previous set. Reflect the story that happens all around. Symbols on the painting. Especially trowel to help reflect the reality or some ideas on shape of objects hidden in the picture...."  Denpong Wongsaroj

                  Number1 Gallery proudly to presents art  exhibition “ Young Dream “ by  Suriya Namwong & Dendpong Wongsaroj        on Thursday,  7  October  2010, 18.00  at Number1 Gallery, Floor B1, Silom Galleria Building.
                 The exhibition will be held from  7 – 30  October  2010. Gallery opening hours: Mondays-Saturdays 10.00-19.00 

2nd  – 26th September 2010.
AT NUMBER1GALLERY
                

Emotional - sense of what is in all men. Sometimes more difficult to find and understand the pressure from environmental factors - different rules around the key variables. Each man must find ways to strike a balance between feeling and what the impact from External to the existence in harmony with the world which turning between  day and night….
        
               
                       Number1 Gallery proudly to presents art  exhibition “Reflections from within “ by  Jirasak  Plabootong on Thursday, 2nd September 2010, 18.00 at Number1 Gallery, Floor B1, Silom Galleria Building.

             
                     The exhibition will be held from  2nd  – 26th September 2010. Gallery opening hours: Mondays-Saturdays 10.00-19.00 

1st  July  to 5th August 2010
18.30 AT NUMBER1GALLERY
                

Number1 Gallery proudly to presents art  exhibition “Identity without the merge “by Daeng Buasand on Thursday, 5th August 2010, 18.00 at Number1 Gallery, Floor B1, Silom Galleria Building.

       “…If we compare the world as one. Night and day are separated by rotation is not complete Life is just that. Both the dark and the light moves with the force rotation to wish Can not just stop anywhere at any time, whether one is suffering or happiness. Remember to change the diversion to the often My work is just that. Life is like a reflection of both the dark and the beautiful. As far as I am still standing in the world. I would turn my world ... To both evening and dawn…”

        The exhibition will be held from  5th  – 28th August 2010. Gallery opening hours: Mondays-Saturdays 10.00-19.00 

1st  July  to 24th July 2010
18.30 AT NUMBER1GALLERY
           

Realistic painting earns its popular character for being accessible and not too difficult to comprehend. It’s a form of art that is touchable, personally integrated and straightforwardly reflective to reality, which is probably why Somphop Saengprom’s  realism works have always been popular and interested among both rookie and veteran art spectators.

Sompop is back with even more intensified experience and skills in his latest solo exhibition, “FORM OF THE SHADOW”  depicting images of crystal clearly detailed paintings of rocks and pebbles in the perfect composition, the artist brilliantly creates the vision of the light from the shadow with delicate among the nature, where rocks an shadow are combined without remainder, yet harmoniously composed, of beauty.  

Number 1 Gallery invites you to the opening of the exhibition,
“FORM OF THE SHADOW” on the Thursday of 1st  July 2010, 6.00 p.m. at Number 1 Gallery, B1 floor, Silom Galleria Buliding. The exhibition will be held from 1st  July  to 24th July 2010, exhibition opening hours are Mondays-Saturdays 10.00-19.00. and 11.00-18.00 on Sundays.  

May 13 –  June 5, 2010
18.30 AT NUMBER1GALLERY
              

Socializing,  drinking , enjoying,  crying, partying, along passion, friendship, youth, music,    e t c. ,

  are emotions and feelings differing upon age or social groups. Constantly it passed through us from the past to the present, cycling on to the future. But the outcome ?, just criticizing, congratulating, or even backstabbing words coming out from deep inside, expressions we might not recognize. From the artist's view, Warawut Intorn creates on canvas, a unique style of colorful brush strokes all collected in a solo exhibition " drink - drank - drunk " at Number 1 Gallery, Silom, Bangkok .

The Number ๑ Gallery invites you to be part of the exhibition " drink - drank - drunk "on Thursday, May13th, 2010, 6 pm. at Number ๑ Gallery, Floor B1, Silom Galleria Building.    

The exhibition will be held  May 13 –  June 5, 2010
Opening hours are Monday – Saturday , 10.00 – 7.00 pm., Sunday  11.00 – 6.00 pm.

April 8 - May 1, 2010
18.30 AT NUMBER1GALLERY


Number 1 Gallery. Delightful  to present art exhibitions.  ". Soodkoo"   In.This time he returned with.". HABITAT. ". The latest set of results.  After the left and the story around in childhood and today. Worldwide creative works set to this.

Back to when we are children. '. City.'. See all cities full of beautiful cities, especially as we go. That may be because we know the negative of the city. ... But when we grow up. ". City. ". In our eyes to see will change. A negative added. In that we never realized. When a child ...

Today no longer view a positive feeling when we are children.         However, when viewing the set. ". HABITAT. ". The use of color is much more color variety. Work than his previous sets ... each piece in this new series.  A beauty. Now we look like. '. City.'. Now we are children.    But errors.  As of now we are adults already ............... we'll smile about. ".City.". Again ..

Ideas to create works of this series.  Artists want to show their attitude to the movement of the city. Combination with a personal affection for Na media demonstrated.Beauty in the heart of the city's artists.  

Thursday, March 11,2010
18.30 AT NUMBER1GALLERY

The number 1 Gallery delightfully presents the art exhibition “ 10 Evil scenes of Thai politic ”
by  Vasan  Sitthiket.

“ …When we all became the followers who living in Demoncrazy society, we have only rights to be the tame animals whose feed by vomit of the rulers to get some energy for made the products and market for their wealthy. Especially living in the rotten Thai society. I as an artist can do just to records it for the next generation
To learn that shall we bearable to living dead in hell with it or up rise to struggle for change it!...”

The Number ๑ Gallery invites you to be a part  of opening the art exhibition
‘10 Evil scenes of Thai politic’ on Thursday, March 11,2010 ,  6.00 pm.at Number ๑ Gallery on Basement  Floor in Silom Galleria Building .,Bangkok ,Thailand

The exhibition will be held  March 11 – April 3 , 2010  Opening hours are Mondays – Saturdays, 10.00 am  – 7.00.

Thursday, 18th February 2010
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Number 1 Gallery delightfully presents the art exhibition “ SILENT WISH” by Pheerapong Kiliwong

“Silent wish” represents of something between mind and the paintbrush always has the puzzle teaching behind. The individual artist uses white bird paper to be a virtual symbol of peace. Specifying light shadows reflects emotions. The idea is consistent with the deepest inside of his feeling, alive with peace, warm, beauty, profound atmosphere. There is a story for searching, complacency describes pass through the latest series of Pheerapong  Kiliwong.

Thursday of 21 January 2010
18.30 AT NUMBER1GALLERY

The number 1 Gallery delightfully presents the art exhibition “ Spiritual Disease” by Kriangkrai Kongkhanun

Human passion couldn’t resist the eternity desires. Be taken until the passion things  became victims

The Number 1 Gallery invites you to the “ After world “  Art exhibition by Tanawat Suriyatongtam, an artist who has produced an extensive amount of artwork.

The concept of After world is from the idea that, in the present the human being is strange weird and become frenzied. Could not control what they want or need. What's most embarrassing is the fact that  humans are destroying their own kind, forgetting that they too, are a part of nature.

   Number 1 Gallery invites you the opening of the exhibition After world by Tanawat Suriyatongtam on Thursday of 17 December 2009, 18.00 at Number 1 Gallery, Room B26-B27, B1 Floor, Silom Galleria Building.

  The exhibition will held from 17 December – 9 January 2010. Exhibition opening hours are Monday-Saturdays 10.00-19.00 and Sunday 11.00-18.00.

That is the explanation of “Kwan” by Teerawat Kanama. It is Thai tradition, in the village all of villagers come together at least once in a year to raise their mind power. To raise the mind force is to gather the good feeling and good thoughts. When good mind, good feeling and good thinking blended together, Mind Power becomes more strengthened. In Thai we know “Kwan” as our Mind Power.

“Kwan,” our Mind Power builds us the happy and smooth life.

The works represent the working style of contemporary Thai painting, yet still uphold the Thai uniqueness. By combining the artist's personal thoughts and imagination to the depiction of dharma conundrums, we can see the works portray something more than the familiar style of work concerning the life of the Buddha or architecture. Through his works, we can witness the artist's faith for Buddhism, the representation of the path to core meaning of life, the fact of life—the birth, the living and the eventual ending of every being.

The 2 Destinations lead us to the The Destination of happiness, the way of happiness could be seen in his works.