Relatively Extended
By : Kathawut pollasup
Exhibition  Period   :  April 25  –  May 25 , 2013
Number 1 Gallery  [ exhibition room3 ]  Silom, Bangkok
Number 1 Gallery is pleased to present the art exhibition

“Relatively Extended” by Kathawut pollasup

The themes of Kathawut’s colorful  abstraction  presents oil on canvas used the subject of  atmosphere  of  the  sky  at  different  times,  has  always been  Kathawut’s  motivation  and  impact  on  his  painting  attitude.

Kathawut has always recognized  the  changes  that  constantly  appear. What  emerges  is  the present,  the  past  cannot  be reversed  and  we  do  not  know  the future.

However, all is progressive. Therefore  what Kathawut  would  like  to  portray  is  a series  of  painting  without  pre  planning  of  the  overall  composition. When finished  a  piece I continue  to  the  next  without  looking  back.  Each painting   was  painted  as  a  sequel  to  the previous  one. This  can  be compared  to  living  life  in  the  present  and  not  hold  on  to the past, not to  worry  about  the  unknown  future.

GRADUATED EMERGENCE

Seven Thai contemporary artists

Sutee Kunavichayanont, Tawatchai Somkong

Arin Rungjang, Kornkrit Jianpinidnan

Kritsada Duchsadeevanich, Lek Kiatsirikajorn and Piyasuk Ausap.      

Curator :  Worathep Akkabootara

Opening  :  Saturday  April 6, 2013    6pm.

Period     :  April 6, 2013    –  May 18 , 2013

Memories, remembering and forgetting are important intellectual mechanisms to organize events and individuals, in addition to identify limited relationships between humans and results from abilities to remember. Remembering does not mean an ability to recall the past and to create an imprint from the past to articulate the present. Indeed, remembering demonstrates direct and indirect nexus in terms of distance in time-space among humans.

Human seek to collect, imprint, recite and recall their memories through media. The blurring or fading graduation and furtive emergences are progressively assembled, in addition regularly causes memories to disappear. From prehistoric human’s artifacts, cave painting, inscriptions, until the modern collective memory managements use throughout  history textbooks, the collectibles, museums, archives, online and offline knowledge banks, etc.  All forms of memory illustrate deeper human desires to categorize things, retain them and ensure their survival into the future.  Despite the shortfalls, partialities and distortion of memories throughout time, they reveal the memory making and manipulation process to put order to the past and clarify survivals from the past with curiosity.

Graduated Emergence is an exhibition to present contemporary art by means of interpretation and depiction of emerged and graduated memory related perspectives. The exhibition display works by the artists who ponder over both concrete and intangible forms found in everyday surroundings such as collectibles, stories, family and those near-and-dear people’s portraits and journeys, happiness and fulfillment, curiosity, bliss and agony. Memories are more than a sum of their imprints or a construction of partially personal histories. They are some slack closures at seams or even gaping holes. Memories invite us not only to reexamine and recount individual stories from the past. They requires

investigations on socio-cultural level as memories and remembrance emerged and expanded as collective memories, understood and shared as public intelligence assets. Collective memories are transmitted perceptions

and they are taken for granted through spoken and written languages, photographic image and visual evidences circulating in the contemporary culture such as collectibles, photographs, scriptural evidences; namely chronicles, fictions and oral histories. Memories are the interlocutory mediator to fill and to bracket empty spaces for perceptions. To reconstruct fragments of ‘private’ memories and ‘public’ memories. Human can use them as a key to endless  answer and new inquire at the same time.

Graduated Emergence is curated by Worathep Akkabootara. The show exhibits paintings,photography

,mix media and installation from seven leading Thai contemporary artists; namely, Sutee Kunavichayanont,

Tawatchai Somkong, Arin Rungjang, Kornkrit Jianpinidnan, Kritsada Duchsadeevanich, Lek Kiatsirikajorn,and Piyasuk Ausap.

CONSPIRE
A group of 4 artists
Rattapoom Piwpantamit, Karin Phisolyabut
Poom Pechavanish and  AOFSMITH
Opening   :  Saturday  February 23,2013    6pm.
Exhibition
Period      :    February 23 –  March 16 , 2013
Number 1 Gallery is pleased to present the art exhibition “CONSPIRE” by a group of 4 artists are
Rattapoom Piwpantamit,  Of  Smith,  Poom Pechavanish and  Karin Phisolyabut
The exhibition is going partnership of 4 artists presented were educated from  M.F.A. of Chulalongkorn University are Rattapoom Piwpantamit, Of  Smith, Poom Pechavanish
and  Karin Phisolyabut .

In this series are focused as the same as presentation the themes of  the several at Thai society  of the artist’s life which find the identity of themselves .The exhibition showcase are  includes painting and sculpture.

LOOK KHUN NOO
By Charinthorn Rachurutchata
Opening: 19 January 2013 at 6.00pm.
Exhibition Period :19 January – 9 February 2013
Number 1 Gallery Bangkok is proud to present “Look Khun Noo ”
Look Kun Noo means privileged kids in Thai. The exhibition explores the theme of loneliness experienced by the children of wealthy Asian families who have been left to the care house employees.

Charinthorn courageously portrays the fear of growing up whilst facing the angst of having to become the next generation of emotionally and physically distant parents who in turn would try and mold their children to the illusory templates of the high society.

She compassionately shows how they experience being trained to behave like Pavlov dogs that respond to the social norms of their community, and how, in their training, they are being led by their Electra and Oedipus complexes. She does this through introducing the viewer to an almost schizophrenic defense mechanism. The children are pressured to rely on imaginary friends keeping them company and enabling them to bear the solitude in their homes.

ROAD TO HEAVEN
By : Ekachai Luadsoongnern
Opening reception : Saturday December 15,2012 6 pm.
Exhibition Period : December 15 ,2012 – January 12, 2013

Number 1 Gallery is proud to present the art exhibition “Road To Heaven” by Ekachai Luadsoongnern.

For more than 30 years, Ekachai Luadsoongnern, the artist from Khonkaen on the road of the artist who creates the well-known impressionist works of Thailand. The works were inspired by traveling around the world and created by the beauty of nature by broadcasting impression to the places, time, lights, color, atmosphere which are different.

“Road to Heaven” sounds it seems comply with the meaning of what if prefer to get into heaven must see charming things.
As proverb in northeast part of Thailand “If you wanted to get into heaven, you should took the clothes off before enter the temple” which means if you wanted to get into heaven you must release whatever things that occurred your original the purest minds. Those can be compared as the clothing covers the bodies such as love, greed, anger, lust, figure, scent, sounds and sense. Then, enter the temple for learning doctrine, practicing the dharma as the formal in respect of Buddhism. It’s the way to heaven of Nirvana. However, in the artist point of view, that’s the way of exquisite and sensitive of nature that artwork was creating process, appreciated artwork by approach purity without any prestige and prejudice. This will leads you to fulfillment of the divine mind, discipline people reach this state of mind perfectly, to joy regarded as the 1st stage of heaven.
This paintings series were created while he was traveling to Europe, China, and his hometown Phu Wiang, Khonkaen during 2544 – 2555 which the artist has memorized the beautiful from his impression along the way and the dwell of his journey according to the outstanding characteristic of the artist, Ekachai Luadsoongnern who was well-known as the number 1 beautiful hunter of Thailand in the style of impressionism.
All the works will exhibit at Number 1 Gallery, the benefits of this exhibition will participate making merit by constructing the arch of Baan Nhong Na Kum Temple (former Phu Wiang district) in Khon kaen. Artist and Number 1 Gallery may invite you to see and collect the valuable work, at the same time felicitations merit with this exhibition.