SERIES 1
NITAPROW
AFTER THE SUCCESS OF PATOM, THE ORGANIC CAFE WHICH BECAME DESTINATION AMONGS CAFE GOERS, NITTAPROW MOVES ON TO AN INDOOR PLAYGROUND PROJECT ‘PLAYVILLE’, WHICH SHAPES THEIR CURRENT INTEREST ABOUT THE LEARNING SPACE
INFORMATION AS ART
FROM THE ARCHIVES THIS WEEK, TWO WORKS OF PUVANAI MON DARDARANANDA ARE BEING REVISITED TO ILLUSTRATE US HOW THE ‘ELECTRONIC ART’ WAS LIKE DURING THE 90s
PHOTO ESSAY : OBSCURE
TEXT & PHOTO: PITI AMRARANGA
(For English please scroll down.)
Obscure รวมรูปคนไร้ใบหน้า ตลอดช่วงเวลาสามปีที่ฝึกถ่ายภาพของ ปิติ อัมระรงค์ นักออกแบบอิสระจาก o-d-a
การปิดบังบางส่วนของซับเจคในภาพเอาไว้ยังเป็นมุกที่สร้างความน่าสนใจได้ดีอยู่เสมอหลายคนก็คงเห็นด้วย เชื่อว่าคนถ่ายรูปสตรีททุกคนต้องมีอัลบั้มทำนองนี้เป็นของตัวเองอยู่อย่างแน่นอน มากบ้างน้อยบ้างตามนิสัย รายละเอียดอาจแตกต่างกันไปตามลีลา เป็นท่าไม้ตายสากลที่ใช้กันได้ต่อไปไม่เกี่ยวกับเงื่อนไขของเวลา ด้วยสัจธรรมที่ว่า “ของบางอย่างปกปิดไว้จึงจะงดงาม”
Obscure – people without faces, a photo set collected over 3 years of practicing photography by Piti Amraranga, an independent designer of o-d-a.
Removing the subject’s face is a technique that provokes the sense of surprise and is quite popular amongst street photographers. I am quite sure that photographers must have at least one collection of faceless people that were taken in their own style, perspective and point of view. It is a kind of a universal topic that I believe will last forever as per this quote “to enchant something is to partially hide it from seeing”
WRAP UP, 01.03.2019
WHAT’S GOING ON IN ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN AND THE ART SCENE AROUND THE WORLD. LET’S SEE ON art4d WRAP UP WEEKLY.
CONSTITUTION IN A NUTSHELL
IN ORDER TO GRASP THE DEBATE, A GROUP OF GRAPHIC DESIGNERS CREATED A LEARNING TOOLKIT ABOUT THE JAPANESE CONSTITUTION
READING LIST ‘BIENNIALS, TRIENNIALS, AND DOCUMENTA: THE EXHIBITION THAT CREATED CONTEMPORARY ART’
AFTER LAST YEAR THAT THAILAND HAS 6 BIENNALES HAPPENED AT THE SAME, WE ARE QUITE SURE THAT THAI PEOPLE GRADUALLY GET USED TO THE TERM ‘BIENNALE’. THEREFORE IN THE READING LIST OF THE WEEK, WE WILL INTRODUCE YOU TO THE HISTORY OF THIS KIND OF ART FESTIVAL
PLASTICIZING THE WORLD II
AMIDST THE TIME WHEN PLASTIC TECHNOLOGY WAS WAITING FOR THE MOMENT TO KNOCK ON THE DOOR OF PEOPLE’S HOUSE. STAYING BETWEEN THE REALITY AND THE ILLUSION, THE IMAGE OF SMITHSON’S HOUSE OF THE FUTURE IS GRADUALLY TRANSFORMED FROM THE IMAGERY OF PEOPLE LIVING IN A PLASTIC HOUSE – IN WHICH IS FULL OF LIGHTWEIGHT BELONGINGS WITH A SMOOTH SURFACE WAXY TO TOUCH – INTO THE REALITY.
IMAGINARY OBJECTS
AS THEIR STUDIO’S NAME SUGGEST, WHAT IMAGINARY OBJECTS (IO), THE ARCHITECTURAL STUDIO LED BY YARINDA BUNNAG AND ROBERTO REQUEJO BELETTE, EMPHASIZES IS THE BALANCE BETWEEN THE IMAGINARY AND PRAGMATIC ASPECT OF ARCHITECTURE
LETTERS: MARIKO TERADA
BACK IN 1995, THE EDITORIAL TEAM OF JAPAN’S ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE, SD (SPACE DESIGN) CAME TO VISIT THAILAND IN HOPE OF FINDING ANOTHER MORE CONTEMPORARY NOTION OF ‘THAI STYLE’ THAT WAS BEYOND THE IMAGES OF THAINESS THE FOREIGNERS ONCE PERCEIVED FROM WILLAIM WARREN’S ‘THAI STYLE’ PUBLISHED IN 1990. LET’S FIND OUT WHAT MARIKO TERADA, AN ASSOCIATE EDITOR OF SD, CAME ACROSS 24 YEARS AGO AND HOW IT CAN REFLECT UPON THE THAI STYLE WE ALL HAVE AT PRESENT