ArtGorillas ArtGallery is pleased to announce C(IT)Y#8: CITY GIRLS, a 6-person art exhibition that unveils the sweet and melancholic journey of 6 female artists in the big city through almost 40 drawings, paintings, prints, mixed media and a massive installation.
Show duration: May 6 – 20, 2008
Opening reception: Tue. May 6, 7 p.m. onwards at the gallery
For more information, please contact 0-2658-3975 or artgorillas@gmail.com or http://www.myspace.com/artgorillas
About artist & concept:
1. Tomoko Matsui (niko): drawing, painting
Graphic designer and illustrator.
I was born in Osaka, Japan in 1981. After traveling the world as a backpacker, I became interested in the South East Asian subcultures, which I have found to be quite unique and different from the more well-known European, American and Japanese subcultures. In 2005, after graduating with a degree in graphic design from Kanazawa College of Art, I decided to move to the hottest Asian city of Bangkok. niko is the girl, me and the name of my world.
Concept: CITY GIRLS
Bangkok, the city I am in loving with.
Bangkok, the city which is flooded with tempting and trashy something.
This is the place where CITY GIRL can be excited and depressed, falling love and getting hurt. Where, over and over again, with feeling lonely, want to cry out, want to run away, but then can get as much, or rather much more.
Bangkok is the one for them like a Big Boyfriend that gives hard time occasionally, but never cheats, and always encourages to be what they want to be.
2. Tunnicha Tangkawattanakul: installation
A fresh graduate from the class of 2007, Faculty of Fine & Applied Arts, Textile Design, Thammasart University.
Concept: The Pulp of Mushroom
The world is consisted of the variety of lives. What one sees as a physical beauty, can be extremely vicious from inside. Through these mushrooms, I tried to imitate the multitude of things in our society, especially stressful competition, materialism, and capitalism.
3. Thanistha Nuntapojn: print (etching & silkscreen)
A junior at Department of Painting, Faculty of Painting, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts, Silpakorn University
Concept: Building
My inspiration for this print series came from observing the lives and living in the city. Massive demands for shelters have led to the mega constructions which badly effect our environment. In my fantasy, I believe that in the near future, human would be able to develop shelters and buildings that can continually self-construct to serve our never ending needed.
4. Sirima Sriraksa: print (etching & silkscreen)
A junior at Department of Painting, Faculty of Painting, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts, Silpakorn University
Concept: My land of bliss
I see myself as a flower that my mother planted back at my hometown. These prints reflect my yearning for life at home after years living in the city.
5. Chonticha Promduang: print (etching & silkscreen)
A junior at Department of Painting, Faculty of Painting, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts, Silpakorn University
Concept: Mushrooming
I see a mushroom as a symbol of growth. Houses that have grown from mushroom are filled with love and bond, which every family should have had.
6. Suwimon Jaroensuk: mixed media
A junior at Department of Painting, Faculty of Painting, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts, Silpakorn University
Concept:
Nothing lasts forever.
