BIG CHILLI Blurb/Review "Expressionist Paintings from the Bangkok Night" Show

Blurb Review from Bangkok's BIG CHILLI magazine July 2012 Issue on the "Expressionist Paintings from the Bangkok Night" show in Bangkok's Prakanong district which continues thru August..........

Bangkok 101 Reviews "Navigating the Bangkok Noir" in July 2012 Issue

 

Bangkok 101 magazine's July 2012 issue short but perceptive review of "Navigating the Bangkok Noir" (Marshall Cavendish)....

"Love it or loathe it, Bangkok's notorious nightlife industry is infamous around the world.  It is into this netherworld that American artist and filmmaker Chris Coles explores.  

Using an exaggerated cinematic approcah, Coles uses Expressonist-style watercolour paintings to portray the City of Angel's vibrant yet upsetting nightlife, using thick bold lines and clashes of colour to blur the lines between real emotion and performance art.  

One question continually arises: what's really behind those smiles?  

Unlike the exhibition that accompanied this work, the book answers that question with clarity as Coles provides background stories and anecdotes--without disclosing a full biography--about his subjects.  

Neither callous nor demanding sympathy, this book allows you to navigate one man's ambivalence to the self-proclaimed 'Land of Smiles'".

Bangkok Art Map July 2012

Nice blurb from the Editor of Bangkok Art Map (aka BAM) July issue from its editor, Steven Pettifor..........

"Expressionist Paintings from the Bangkok Night" continues until August 19th

Renoir Club Soi 33 - Chris Coles (18x24 inch watercolor)

The "Expressionist Paintings from the Bangkok Night" exhibit continues at Horst Temmen's German-style coffee house in Prakanong until August 19th:

71 Coffee & More
7/7 soi 71 (between "sub-soi" 3 and 5 on Soi 71)
Sukhumvit
Bangkok 10110
Tel: 02-711-0858

(Take BTS to Prakanong station, walk or take short taxi ride east along Sukhumvit to Soi 71, turn left, along to the left after sub-soi 3 and before sub-soi 5 is 71 Coffee & More)