aseanARToday
Thavibu Gallery
organized jointly with the ASEAN Art Expo the art exhibition entitled aseanARToday
Thailand & Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar/Burma in Bangkok 4 – 28 June 2002.
ASEAN Art Expo is an organization established to promote ASEAN art and
artists and has been endorsed by the ASEAN Secretariat. The exhibition in
Thailand is one of several national shows which are held prior to the
international exhibition which will take place at the National Art Gallery in Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia 19 October – 24 November 2002.
Dr. Sheldon Shaeffer, Director of UNESCO, Bangkok delivered the keynote speech
at the opening reception. At the National Art Gallery, around eighty leading artists from the ASEAN countries will
showcase their works. The show provides an opportunity to sample the
diversity and view some of the best visual art produced in South-East Asia today.
An art symposium for art professionals as well as for other persons with
interest in visual Asian arts, is scheduled to take place for three days to coincide
with the opening of the exhibition. To inquire about the art symposium or
the regional exhibition in Kuala Lumpur,
kindly send an e-mail to Jaffee Yee Yeow-fei of
ASEAN Art Expo. The organizers in Malaysia have recently decided not to
include all ten ASEAN countries in the show, hence works from Cambodia, Laos and
Burma will not take part.
Some
of the paintings
displayed below are scheduled to be exhibited in Thailand as well as at the National
Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia. They are available for purchase
from Thavibu Gallery.
Sudjai Chaiyapan
