Out&About
Check out art exhibitions you shouldn't miss
She’s got us in suspense
Anchalee Arayapongpanich has been watching too many scary movies. “Thriller & Horror”, an exhibition of her fantasy paintings at the Ardel Gallery of Modern Art through June 25, features self-portraits of the artist in the guise of famous actors from her favourite Hollywood blockbusters.
The gallery is on Boromrachachonnanee Road in Thonburi. Find out more at ArdelGallery.com.
Beauty in unexpected places
Canadian photographer Tim Pelling’s Bangkok waterscapes will be on view in the exhibition “Liquid Bangkok” at the Soy Sauce Factory in the Charoen Krung area from June 3 to 24. Pelling captures the unexpected beauty of neglected and degraded klongs around the city. In slow exposures, he highlights the water’s movement in semi-abstract scenes framed by clotheslines, old homes and lonely trees. Learn more on the “SoySauceFactory” Facebook page.
A right Blastard
The exhibition “A Creature Apart” at Yenakart Villa through June 24 has installations, sculptures, paintings, photographs and a video by Filipino -Thai artist Rook Floro. Front and centre is a character named “Blastard”, the artist’s “most recent alter ego”, who struggles to contain his lust and strike a balance between fantasy and reality.
Check out the “yenakartvilla” page on Facebook.
It’s a long story
Frenchman Gilles Rieu makes “One Stop in Bangkok” tonight with a show of paintings that’s toured the world. It’s presented at the Alliance Francise as part of a French cultural series. Rieu paints on 10-metre-long rolls of paper, recalling beat writer Jack Kerouac’s seamless manuscript for “On the Road”, incorporating imagery, graphics, languages and “pictorial gestures”. The exhibition continues through June 11. On Facebook, look for “AllianceFancaiseBangkok”.
