Bangkok--21 May--Sofitel Bangkok Sukhumvit
Event: Art Exhibition: Pongsakul Chalao’s: Tangled Up in Blue
Venue: S Gallery
Lobby Level, Sofitel Bangkok Sukhumvit
Tel: 02-1269999
Dates: Now – June 6th, 2015
Artist: Pongsakul Chalao
Led by Mr. William Haandrikman, the hotel’s General Manager, Sofitel Bangkok Sukhumvit, together with renowned French art advisor, Martin Gerlier, recently hosted the opening of Pongsakul Chalao’s Tangled Up in Blue art exhibition at S Gallery.
This exhibition presents 27-year-old Thai artist, Pongsakul Chalao’s latest works, created with a sewing machine, his substitute for a paintbrush, and denim, his colour. The inspiring work will be on show at S Gallery until 6th June 2015.
Mr.William Haandrikman, General Manager of Sofitel Bangkok Sukhumvit said recently, “S Gallery is inspired by French art and design as part of the Sofitel’s three pillars philosophy. The space welcomes art lovers to rotating exhibitions by Thai and French artists. This time we proudly to present Pongsakul Chalao's special Tangled Up in Blue”
S Gallery is an exciting art venue dedicated to showcasing emerging and established local and international artists.
Tangled up in blue
A 27-year-old Thai artist, Pongsakul Chalao has been collecting jeans for ten years. They are cut and torn in pieces and used to create a puzzle landscapes. Provoked by the socio-cultural scene of Bangkok and its surroundings, he mirrors these ideas through all possible hues and tones of denim.
Pongsakul studied at Bunditpatanasilpa Institute of Painting but fabric collage is a self-taught practice. A medium of both technique and concept, the blue pieces of clothing, the epitome of casual wear, transcends all generations, cultures, styles and classes. The artist questions and reinvents the nature of the material. He considers the possible boundaries between abstraction and reality, notions of the East and West, wealthy and impoverished.
Pongsakul Chalao is tangled up in blue, a blue that once coloured Joan Miro?'s dreams. While listening to Bob Dylan, he intensifies the hues and contrasts of light and shadow, his sewing machine outlines and immortalizes the quest of an intangible landscape. A beauty found in the mundane, pictures that we come across every day but don't always see. One that is accessible through symbols of globalization in a contemporary world, while juggling with conventions and expectations of what art should be, in a manner that is both subtle and wise.
Pongsakul Chalao's denim collages have previously been shown at the Art Center of Chulalongkorn University, V64 art studio and Brownstone Studios.
For further information or reservations, please contact Martin Gerlier, MoonStar Fine Arts Advisors at 093 5826588 or e-mail:
[email protected]
S Gallery – Lobby Level, Sofitel Bangkok Sukhumvit
S Gallery is open daily from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.