Our fragile bodies
Thaweesak Srithongdee expands his fascination with the human condition in his new solo exhibition "Bruised" at the Thavibu Gallery from next Saturday until October 15.
Influenced by surrealism and pop art, Thaweesak is a keen observer of people, their physical and mental characteristics. He previously engineered a spurious race of Adonic, pectoral-defined, super-beings that played with perceptions of body image.
In "Bruised" he questions our existence and ultimate survival. Bruises and scars show our fallibility and provoke assumptions about how the inflictions were caused.
The gallery, in the Silom Galleria, is open Monday to Saturday from 11 to 7. Visit www.Thavibu.com.
Hockney on the go
Influential British painter David Hockney has found new freedom in his country forays by replacing his easel and brushes with an iPad.
The 74-year-old artist's digitally created works will be among a massive exhibition of landscapes from his native Yorkshire, "David Hockney: A Bigger Picture", at London's Royal Academy of Arts in London from January 21 until April 9.
Featuring never-before-seen works, 151 paintings will be shown, among them "Winter Timber" (2009), a woodland clearing painted in violet and blue on 15 canvases. There's also films shot while driving through the forest, and drawings made using the iPad.
Curator Marco Livingstone praised Hockney's digital direction, explaining that the artist can take his iPad everywhere instead of lugging around paint, brushes, watercolours, colour pencils and ink. "You could work instantly when inspiration took you. And he can instantly send it to his friends."
The iPad art is created using the "Brushes" application, drawn with the finger or a special pen.
They "have their own quality", Livingstone says. Once printed out, "they look like sort of paintings but they are on paper. They look like watercolours but the colour is more dense. They look like gouache but the colour is more transparent."
Gap's got you covered
Wrap your Apple iPhone 4 in shades of the Woodstock generation with Gap clothing and iStudio's "1969" case. Available only in Thailand, the fitted hard cover bears an image of Gap's 1969 Denim.
The limited-edition case was released to commemorate the opening of Gap's fourth shop in Thailand, at the recently renovated Central Lat Phrao.
The cases are now available in the other Gap shops too, at CentralWorld, Siam Paragon and Paradise Park as well as iStudio stores.
