2010    
* Unspeaking Engagements, School of Art And Design, Coventry, UK
2009     
* Permanent Flux, GMT+7 art&design Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
* (to be titled), SCG Foundation, Bangkok.
* Unspeaking Engagements, Chulalongkorn Art Centre, Bangkok.
* From Surface to Origin: Journeys through recent art from India and Thailand, Gallery Soulflower, Bangkok.
* Crack2: Artistic Flowers In The Park, Banjasiri Park, Bangkok.
2008    
* Internior Horizons, Catherine Schubert Fine Art Gallery, Bangkok.
2007     
* Prana: Art, Light, Space, Chulalongkorn University Art Center, Bangkok.
* Chapter 75: Clay Overture, Playground Gallery, Bangkok.
* Ethnic, Its Abundance and Freedom, 4th World Ceramic Biennale, Icheon, Korea.
* Space of 10 Light Years, Shanghai Gallery, Shanghai.
* Cracks: The Magic Clay Can Do, Baan Silom, Bangkok.
2006    
* Inspired by the King: an art exhibition to celebrate the King of Thailand's 60 years on His Throne, Playground, Bangkok.
* 1st Pechakucha in Bangkok, House Rama, RCA, Bangkok.
2005    
* Mould Boy, Industrial Design Gallery, Bangkok.
* Design, Approaches to Critical Projects, University of Florence.
2004    
* Galileo Chini and Colors of the Orient, Queen Sirikit's Gallery, Bangkok.
2000    
* Space Animated by Light, Portcullis Gallery, University of Gloucestershire, UK.
1999    
* Pneuma & Prana, The Axiom Gallery, Cheltenham, England.
1998    
* Matrix 4, Letheby Gallery, Central Saint Martins School of Art, London.
1996     
* Research Fellow Show, Pittville Gallery, Cheltenham, England.
* Seven, Howard Gardens Gallery, Cardiff, UK.
* New Designers, Business Design Center, Islington, London.
1995    
* Interim, University of Wales Gallery, Cardiff, UK.

2006    
* Invention Award (for arts & crafts), The Research Council of Thailand
2005    
* Honorable Mention (with Pim Sudhikam and Vannapa Pimviriyakul) for the design of Ashwattha: the tsunami memorial, Tsunami ; Memorial International Competition.
2004    
* Elle Décor Thailand Award for Best Tableware Collection (with Pim Kongsangchai and Sadanont Tayankanont)
2003    
*Award for excellent research from the ministry of universities of Thailand
1998    
* Award for excellent research progresss, Cheltenham&Gloucester CHE.
1994    
* 2000 Master/Doctorate Scholarship from the Royal Thai Government
1992    
* Awards for best creative print campaign and for best copywriting print adverstising, Bangkok Art Directors' Club
1990    
* Best print adverstising and best print campaign, TACT Awards.

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The trajectory of Pattanopas’s oeuvre suggests a concern with generating a sense of the human body in flux; a concern that links with Buddhist notions of impermanence while acting directly on the viewers senses.

Pattanopas’s sculptures are labour-intensive in their detailing of exterior and interior views of the human body. He works with disparate materials and intricate structures to create illusions of bodily spaces and depth.

Furthermore, Pattanopas’s largest sculpture to date, Porta-atroP I, treads a particularly provocative line between beauty and ugliness in terms of a seductive yet disturbing imaging of seemingly infinite corporeal passages that bespeak the human body as subject to endless change.

Be Takerng Pattanopas is a Thai-born artist and academic and currently an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Architecture of Bangkok’s Chulalongkorn University. He exhibits and publishes internationally and his recent exhibitions have been reviewed in Flash Art and Frieze.com.

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The Designs of Udom Udomsrianan and the Art of Ruangsak Anuwatwimon, while paying respect to its beauty and underlining its fragility, are mainly questioning the paradoxes of our violent relationship towards nature. Through the spectrum of death and its rituals, Ruangsak presents us with a major installation work made of human hearts shaped sculptures. After collecting dead animals and having these bodies go through the ritual of cremation, the ashes and remains are mixed with natural resins in order to create the human hearts. The cremation, its religious-like process, underlines the necessity of rethinking our relations to our extended wilderness-bound family. As for Udom's "natural life" series which are his only creation not being made of raw natural materials, moreover the limited edition of 10 underlines further more the scarcity of species.

"Revenge" installation series depicts un-expected aspects of the relation between animal lovers and they beloved creatures where one loves the image of the other more than its reality. "Revenge" inverts the positions of master and pet, placing it from the point of view of the animal seeking revenge beyond death for its years of captivity. Through these installations, Ruangsak is applying the reversal of perspective process that is his trade mark in exploring the violence of relationships between man and nature. In this case violence is unveiled, from its hide-out : a sincere love feeling.

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Of the work of Naoufel Bedraoui, Christoph Ruys, Director of the Antwerp FotoMuseum, recently wrote:

"Images first need space for themselves, so as to evolve as artworks (...) They offer shelter to the meaningless instant, to the little enlightening exhaled by those things which -without photography- would ever stay unnoticed. There stands without a doubt the very value of Naoufel Bedraoui's work : in its ability to discover these seldom perceived details."

On the occasion of the exhibition opening, Douglas, from Cafe Belga, will perform an exclusive DJ set

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MYHTS and RYTHMS for the new MILLENIUM opens the 7th of Feb and ends early April in Brussels, but the exhibition takes place simultaneously at Mar's Contemporary art centre in Moscow and Emmeotto gallery in Rome.

Antonio Pio Saracino is an Italian architect and artist who was born in southern Italy in 1976. He currently works and lives between Rome and New York City. Saracino received his Master’s degree in Architecture from La Sapienza University of Rome. Saracino has won numerous International design and architectural awards, his projects have been widely published internationally. His design for a boutique in Soho, NY in 2007 was featured in the Best of the Year editions of Wallpaper and Interior Design magazines. In addition, he was presented with a 2007 American Architecture Award from the Chicago Athenaeum and the Chicago Museum of Architecture for his design of a country house in upstate New York. Saracino was selected to represent Italy in the European Art contest, as the winner of the Agorafolly art competition for Europalia.Europa Art Festival 2007/2008 in Brussels, Belgium. Saracino’s artwork has also been included in several international museum exhibitions. In 2007 he was named as one of the world’s 25 most interesting trend-setters by New York‘s ARTnews magazine.

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While many designers insist on using standard patterns and materials, Suppapong Songsang sees things differently.

He believes that a design should not have a static meaning, but that its beauty depends on the individual's point of view and attitude.

Tazana, the name of his brand, means Perspective in Thai. Like nature creating beauty in an unrepeatable manner, Suppapong's striking lights are not static. In his work, technology meets handicraft and improvisation.

Imitating stemcells ability to evolve in various ways, Suppapong Songsang's designs are able to evolve according to the needs and creativity of their owners.

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Fashion photographer, but not only. His personal work is fed with the question of gender. A very trendy theme these days, except that contrary to others, it is not the feminine-masculine or the 3rd sex theory that interest him, but rather the question of identity that is behind and linked to it.

This is reflected in his work which gives him ground to experiment. This is why and also for ethic a reason, Punsiri has never accepted that fashion designer tell him what to do. Designers and publications he works for have always given him a lot of freedom: "Right from the beginning of my career, I only shot what I wanted to and the way I wanted to. I would rather my style to be hated than just average".

When he speaks about his work and his research on identity, one really gets this impression that Punsiri uses fashion as a means to be experimental, playing with images and impressions we get from them.

Daringly, he mocks traditional criteria attached to fashion photography: use beautiful models so that people want to buy the clothes they wear and give of themselves the same image.  Punsiri does not hand over the ideal aesthetic of fashion models but instead creates characters that are extraordinary, that we cannot relate to because their attribute of identity are contradictory: a young boy wearing trash make-up; a woman dressed like a little girl; an Asian model with black skin, a transsexual dressed like a diva. 

Because nobody can really relate to the models he photographs. Is that why his photographs strike us so much and sometimes disturb us? Hence opening the debate: are our identity classifications valuable? Are they healthy?

Exhibition : 28 May - 29 June at GMT+7 art&design Gallery : 258 Chaussee d'Ixelles, 1050 Brussels

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When fashion overcomes illusion, where couture tends to become sculpture, at the collision point of catwalk and sidewalk, at the borders of trash culture and haute couture, there stands Chaichon Savantrat one of Bangkok's most famous and independent fashion designers.

Active for more than 20 years in his field, Chaichon achieved a remarcable level of creativity and delicacy in his realisations, at the razor-sharp limit of both art and fashion...

He is widely recognised as one of the most daring and main figures of Bangkok fashion scene.

He is the designer behind the well acknowledged brands Good Mixer (menswear) and Muse (women)

In March 2008, a retrospective of his work has been organised in Brussels, at GMT+7 art&design gallery. follow this link to have a look at the the Opening night