9 Art Gallery / Architect Studio

[Limbo]

The opening of the exhibition, Saturday July 4 at 7.00 pm, will be presided over by Marc Dumur, General Manager of The Legend resort of Chiang Rai.

As Canadian artist Robert Blair Porter has moved elsewhere now, Cornelis Hoek might be the only active foreign artist in Chiang Rai.

Cornelis Hoek, Dutch, resident of Chiang Rai for nearly ten years, is residing in a house that without any doubt not only accommodates the greatest library on art and international literature of Chiang Rai, but also holds an exquisite European and Asian art collection and thus surrounds him by the finest possible bearers of inspiration one might dream of.

The moment had to come that he would find a form of active engagement again, simply by a personal expression of his creativity.

His professional background shows a broad spectrum of cultural activities, not only in creating but also in accommodating visual and performing arts. Yes, he also visited the College of Horticulture and also the Hotel School, but it was in the conservatories of Mannheim and Amsterdam and the Opera Studio of Hannover that the future of his career artistically was determined.

As a soloist the concert singer Cornelis Hoek performed more than 400 times, for audiences in old European castles, cultural centers or simply at private residencies, like for instance those of the Rothschild bankers.

The position he acquired as a concert singer, his heart for the art and sake of classic music and his integrity as an artist led, in combination with his generally recognized organizational talents to the fact that he for not less than eleven years at a row was chosen to be the technical director of the prestigious International Summer Music Festival of Youth and Music in Germany.

The same organizational talents and mindset brought him the responsibility for the success of the European tours of the Bolshoi Opera of Moscow, the Kirov Ballet of Petersburg, but also the Royal New Zealand Ballet and the National Ballet of China.

His Chinese engagement resulted in the compilation, marketing and organizing of a respectable number of Chinese shows in Europe, with acrobatics, wushu components, dancing, singing and traditional and modern singing, that earned him great respect in Europe but in China as well.

Add to this his work as a visual artist, being a materially inspired weaver of more than 250 tapestries that found their destination in Dutch and German, public and private collections and we see a picture of the man behind the artist who presents himself to us with his latest and certainly surprising work at 9 Art Gallery / Architect Studio in Chiang Rai.

Drs. John 'Limbo' Jeurissen, former museum curator in the Netherlands.

[Limbo]

Cornelis’ collages are ‘cornelages’. What else could they be?

It would be pure coincidence if you would discover a living being within the remarkable urban worlds that Cornelis composed for us in his ‘cornelages’. It is as if the honey has been extracted from the honeycombs and their remains have been piled up, in Samuel Beckett’s terms, for a timeless ‘waiting for Godot’. Still reflecting the life they once contained they seem to have lost meaning, function, yes, thereby even their right of existence.

Composed, monumental remnants of an abandoned human beehive; stone, glass, concrete, reflecting a recreated world from a timeless past and hiding any explaining reference to any connecting aspect of living nature.

Piled up like wrecked cars on gigantic scrap yards, though confusingly different in that they almost all seem to be new, ready to be used instead of reflecting a fulfilled task in a nondescript past. The houses in the ‘cornelages’ are obviously not dumped; a disturbing detail for our conditioned way of seeking hold on existing concepts.

In search for an understanding based on obvious, if not at least logical explanations the spectator is forced to enter the ‘cornelages’ only to find himself lost and stripped from the safety of recognition as if suddenly wandering in the middle of a mysterious labyrinth.

It is as if the individual elements of this special mix of buildings, without a connecting structure, withdrawn from street patterns and alienated from any thinkable environment, necessarily get a greater say: Cornelis invites us to find our way back home in a world he playfully restructured for us.

Cornelis, using scissors to create the colors on his palette and even so the forms of his brush techniques, brings together historically and geographically different ingredients into a carefully manipulated and visually smooth but unreal composition of an unthinkable reality.

In that way Cornelis’ work is abstract by nature; engaging, challenging, yes, also teasing but visually very pleasantly appealing by its carefully applied color shades and balanced composition. It brings back to us the visual artist of the olden days of the tapestry, though this sudden reappearance questions if he ever left. The artist Cornelis Hoek remains as surprising as the new work he presents to us at the exhibition at the magnificent 9 Art Gallery /Architect Studio in Chiang Rai.

Limbo (retired!)

[ThaiBasil]

I checked out the 9artgallery website and found some really nice art in there. Didn't know there was a bit of an art scene in Chiang Rai. Nice!

[Limbo]

I checked out the 9artgallery website and found some really nice art in there. Didn't know there was a bit of an art scene in Chiang Rai. Nice!

Yes tiptip, Khun Saowanee and Khun Sompong of 9 Art Gallery / Architect Studio are pioneers!

They started about eight years ago and managed to keep the gallery going with relative high quality art.

The first gallery of Chiang Rai, Ahimsa, only lasted two years. That was in the beginning of the nineties.

Anyhow, if you think about the fact that the artist 'sala' of Chiang Rai counts more than 40 members (of which many try to survive in Chiang Mai and Bangkok), one gallery isn't much for a province of more than a million people.

Chiang Rai might have the potential of Ubud on Bali, Honfleur in France or Bergen in the Netherlands, as it always has attracted artists, but the only thing the 'cultural establishment' of Chiang Rai does is to wai each other, decorate each other and organize some parades once in a while and the staff of Rai Mae Fah Luang requests passing cars not to sound their horns as they don't want to be waked up.

There are several buildings in town, once built with a cultural purpose that now are standing empty or are turned into fittness centers.

With other words: an enormous potential, but not understood!

It are the initiatives of the new generation that give hope. Initiatives like the Starry Night Society at the observatory for instance. And the perseverance of people like Khun Saowanee and Khun Sompong!

But there is other good news!

If you drive north on the superhighway to Maechan, you pass at a certain moment the Chiangrai Rajabhat University at your left.

A little bit less than a kilometer further, Pepsi Cola at your left, is the second U-turn after the Rajabhat.

Take this one and stop after 75 meter: You stand in front of a big soup shop (I always take the meatballs - mo sap) that at a second glance also offers space to a modern and interesting bookshop/coffeeshop and that houses an art gallery on the second and third floor:Angkritgallery

Next week Thursday, July 9, a very interesting exhibition will open there at 7 pm.

It is Sayarm, who will present not only his own work but also the result of his artistic work with children.

Khun Sayarm Pueng-udom, thirty years ago a kru doi, a volunteer teacher in the mountains, belongs with Acharn Chalong to of the most prominent art teachers of Chiang Rai.

His own art form is bamboo and he will combine this with the aquarel, acrylic and 'food-art' of his young, 5 - 12 year old, artists.

Four groups take part:

Shan and Akha children from Maesai (who are not allowed to be present at the opening because they don't have the right ID's), village children from Ban Pa Ngiew, a small group youngsters from Chiang Mai and his students from Chiang Rai, among which a number of the pupils of Wiksanuson, the new (second) Montessori school.

On the pictures you see the artists Khun Sayarm and Khun Angkrit Ajchariyasophon (the gallerist) on the first hanging day.

Limbo

[ThaiBasil]

I might take my brother to one of these places when he comes over this year. He is a young artist back home in The Hague, The Netherlands. This is some of his sold work, you can find more if you like it here:

http://www.asger.nl/endehtml/new%205.htm

[Limbo]

I checked out the 9artgallery website and found some really nice art in there. Didn't know there was a bit of an art scene in Chiang Rai. Nice!

The vernissage of the exhibition 'Cornelages' showed us indeed that there is an art scene in Chiang Rai.

It was a very pleasant event, with about 75 attendants of which remarkably 17 were foreign residents of Chiang Rai.

A cultural event that comes to my mind where more foreigners participated was the violin concert of Vadim Tjijik two years ago in the beautiful Sala Kaew at the lake of Rai Mae Fah Luang: 24 persons.

The topper was of course the opening of the exhibition 'Chiang Rai Through Foreign Eyes' at the National Museum of Chiang Saen where fifteen foreign residents of Chiang Rai showed photographs that reflected their way of looking at Chiang Rai.

Together with their friends they made a crowd of 35 persons strong.

The football game Chiang Rai United only attracted 14 persons of foreign origine, a sign that the cultural level of the average 'farang' in Chiang Rai is higher than what one would expect at first glance 55555!

Anyhow: coming Saturday July 11 at 6 o'clock at the stadium of Chiang Rai, a chance to improve this number.

Limbo

The foreigners on the picture are (from left) Marc, the Swiss hotel manager of The Legend Resort with John, a Dutch former museum curator and the Dutch artist Cornelis.

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New exhibition in 9 Art gallery / Architect Studio:

Saturday August 8th 2009 at 19.00 pm Khun Siripan Boonyarasai, who most of us

will know as the secretary of the Society of Friends of Rai Mae Fah Luang, will open the exhibition

.............................. “ Spirits in Nature ”

by Lisa Moses and Paradorn Wora-apinyaporn

Lisa Moses about her work:

"I have always loved to draw, and throughout my youth I created many works with pen and ink, and oil pastels.

In my first career, I was a ballet dancer and performed with various ballet companies in California.

After I retired from dance, I turned my full creative energy to painting and drawing. I studied art at the University

of California , Los Angeles (UCLA), initially focusing on watercolor, and then on acrylics.

My experience with music and dance has had a significant influence on my art. I love movement, and the lines created

by dancing bodies. I have visions of music and dance blending into various nature settings,and that concept is currently

the main focus of my work".

Inner life, acrylic on canvas

Paradorn Wora-apinyaporn about his work:

"Ideas...

From the miraculous beauty of nature

Seen through the eyes and finding form at the tip of a drawing brush

On natural materials, familiarly beloved since childhood.

From a Chinese-Thai family living in a raft over Yom river's current

It's the wonders that remain unfading in the memory,

Growing ever strong along with the love for Arts.

Through trial and error, from tales and wisdom of those who came before,

From books and records,

Combined with perseverance and determination

And unfailing support from my family

That I have come this far,

Producing these proud works and passing on the passion to my children".

Red Plums, Chinese Brush on Sa Paper

Limbo

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Friday September 4 at 7 pm Ajarn Kanock Vissavagul will preside over the opening of the exhibition

“ A Journey of Drawing and Painting of the Dream ”

With work of Somyos Kamseang, Suwit Jaipom, Banjob Poothipin and Sujin Suriyanaparuek

A group of countryside boys, raised in village society, is filled with determination and moves to the big city

to seek for the artistic realisation of their dreams.

Ajarn Somyos Kamseang, Suwit Jaipom, Banjob Poothipin and Sujin Suriyanaparuek are trusted friends since they studied at Chiang Rai

vocational college.

Each individual took on his journey to seek for "priceless experiences both in and out of the book", as they wish to describe it themselves.

Having the same objective, they want to present "art works enlightened with the fire of their journey”.

The composition of their dreams shows itself to be a symbiosis of simplicity and gentleness, however based on a strong ambition to survive

on the artistic road.

The sole purpose of this exhibition is to share the dream that seems to have realised itself with their mother land, Chiang Rai.

Limbo

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Banjob Sujin Somyot

The exhibition will be on view until September 30th

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In earlier messages of this thread you will find two foreign artists and longterm

residents of Chiang Rai, that also will take part in the exhibition

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that will open tonight at Latitude 19+, the artspace of Le Meridien of Chiang Rai:

Dutch Cornelis Hoek and American Lisa Moses.

The others are Malaysian Jaffee Yee and Englishman Martin Doyle.

Cornelis is a retired concert singer, art weaver and impresario for Chinese shows.

Lisa is a former ballet dancer and studied art at University of California.

Martin was copy writer, art-director, creative director and film director.

Yaffee publisher and art consultant, furthermore free lance curator.

Rebecca Weldon Sithiwong (Becky), who studied museology in Amsterdam and was for

several years curator of the museum of Rai Mae Fah Luang will do the talking tonight.

The opening of this exhibition is scheduled same day and same time as

the new exhibition of two splendid artists at 9Artgallery/Architect Studio.

But neverteless a nice combination!

Limbo

A cast acrylic by Lisa Moses . . . .

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Aside from the exhibition mentioned in last posting another vernissage will take place today,

Saturday February 13 at 7 PM at 9 Art Gallery / Art Studio you are welcome at the festive

opening of an exhibition of the work of two Thai artists, more precisely

. . . . . . . . . . Suwannee Sarakana and Suppharat Ratcharin

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . “ Her Emotion ”

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . The opening will be presided over by Dr. Richard J. Frankel

"Women’s emotions are complicated but interesting to observe.

The two artists each represent in this show their individual female emotions

in a manner unique to their upbringing".

Suwannee Sarakana earned her Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Fine Art at Silpakorn University.

She draws her inspiration from the people of the small villages of Isan in northeastern Thailand where

she grew up. Suwannee paints the life of the village’s children and women relaxing and playing outdoors.

Her paintings use tactile textures to represent the real nature of reality in the village where life is lived

close to the earth.

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Suppharat Ratcharin completed her Bachelors and Masters Degrees of Fine Art from Chiangmai University.

She enjoys living in Chiangmai close to the year round green vegetation of the mountains, the area’s cool

waterfalls, rivers and and the colorful flowers.

Her large scale flower paintings represent her happiness, loneliness and love.

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Excellent work!

Limbo

[chivo]

i am curious about the architect part of the studios name? does any body have any information regarding their arch. services or skills?

thanks

[Limbo]

It is a beautiful exhibition.

Before it ends, please go and see it!

Again and again I would like to ask you to consider

to spend at least 10 % of what you spent on your car

on art.

Even if you never learnt to appreciate art, please realize that

after ten years your car won't be worth anything, but the pieces of

art you bought might have been doubled or tripled in value.

My apologies to artists who might be reading this, but some people

simply think in money terms even when it is about art.

They are no lesser children than others 555!

I know a person with small children.

I suggested him to have their portraits painted.

All right he said, let's go and visit your artist and I will throw some

pictures on the table and ask how much ...

People like that exist.

Limbo

[Limbo]

Again and again I would like to ask you to consider

to spend at least 10 % of what you spent on your car

on art.

Even if you never learnt to appreciate art, please realize that

after ten years your car won't be worth anything, but the pieces of

art you bought might have been doubled or tripled in value.

Just thinking about it ...

... about the financial connection between art and cars.

About twenty years ago the Volvo dealer of Bangkok got an unusual idea and

turned it into an innovative promotion: If you bought a Volvo you received a

graphic work made by Thawan Duchanee as well (the gentleman who studied

at the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam and created among others the 'Black Village'

in Ban Nang Lae, the soi almost opposite ANGKRITGALLERY.

Ten years later the lucky buyers could sell the the art work and have enough

money to trade in their Volvo for a brand new one.

For those who had chosen for some chromy accessories in stead we can only

hope that they still were shining ...

Those who still have the art work in their possession are the real lucky ones

as prices start at one million now for graphic prints of Thawan.

Limbo

PS: The picture of the master himself is taken by Goski evenso himself some years

ago at the occasion of the annual Mae Fah Luang Ceremony at the Rai MFL.

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[chivo]

so no one knows about the architect part of the offerings?

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The next exhibition at 9 Art Gallery / Architect Studio

is named and consists of:

Contemporary Art Dedicated to Panom Kawnoi

The art works shown are made by members of the Phan Artists Group

The opening will take place coming Saturday March 20 at 7.00 pm

and will be presided over by Pol.Maj.Gen. Songtham Allapach

Acharn Panom Kawnoi who recently passed away at the much too early age of 45 years

was a well respected teacher from Phan, working as Kru Doi ('mountain teacher') among

the poor hill tribe children in the mountainous Wawi area. English was the main subject he

taught, but as an artist he integrated it with art.

Acharn Panom was one of the prominent members of the Phan artist group, of which the

members now honor him with this exhibition. A substantial part of the proceeds will be

donated to the family of Acharn Panom and to the little village school where he worked.

Limbo

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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Opening hours 10.00 am - 20.00 pm (Mondays closed).

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Edited March 17, 2010 by Limbo

[Asa]

Is Khun Suwannee related to the Wyeth somehow?

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3 Sculptures especially made by Winai Chaso for His Majesty King Norodom Sihamoni

of Cambodia and Their Majesties Norodom Sihanouk and Norodom Monineath Sihanouk,

King-Father and The King-Mother of Cambodia.

New exhibition at 9 Art Gallery / Architect Studio

'Metallic tribes'

By

Winai Chaso

The opening of the exhibition, taking place Saturday May 15 at 7.00 pm, will be presided over by

Count Gerald van der Straten Ponthoz,

Chairman of The Chao Phya Abhai Raja Siammanukulkij Foundation

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From a mountain bordering Myanmar to a new life...

When he was 7 years old, Winai came down to Maechan with his father for the first time.

At that time he could not speak Thai and the walk from his Lahu village, next to the Myanmar

border, lasted two days. He entered the Suksasongkroh boarding school of Maechan and

stayed there 12 years.

In 2005, Winai participated to the "Hill Tribe Ceramic Project" with 11 other students. The

project was set up at Insii Thai House by what is now known as the Chao Phya Abhai Raja

Siammanukulkij Foundation.

A French sculptor, Paul Beckrich, had been invited to teach a special and precise technique

of enameling ceramic, in a way 'changinge ceramic into metal'.

This project made the life of Winai take a new turn.

It took Winai about 3 years of perseverance and hard work to fully master the technique.

The foundation and the Rotary clubs of Maechan and Lampang further helped Winai by

providing ovens and material but patience and perseverance were the keys to Winai’s progress.

All this work has transformed the life of Winai who can now make a living from his art.

The sculptures of Winai are inspired by hill tribes living in today’s world. While one can clearly

recognize the style and particularities of each tribe, there is also a contemporary touch with

a metallic feeling which make these art pieces unique.

Winai already had exhibitions in Chiangrai, Maechan and Phuket, and his sculptures can be found

in several private collections, including the collections of the residence of the Belgian ambassador

in Bangkok and H.M. King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.

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From the remotest mountain bordering Myanmar to a new and better life…

This exhibition is not only about ceramic sculptures, it is also about a young hill tribe artist

whose life changed thanks to art.

'Channeled' by Limbo

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The gallery is situated at the Superhighway, about 200 meter north of the King Mengrai statue.

Opening hours from Tuesday to Sunday: 10.00 am – 8.00 pm. Exhibition will take place until June 15.

[Limbo]

I checked out the 9artgallery website and found some really nice art in there. Didn't know there was a bit of an art scene in Chiang Rai. Nice!

The vernissage of the exhibition 'Cornelages' showed us indeed that there is an art scene in Chiang Rai.

It was a very pleasant event, with about 75 attendants of which remarkably 17 were foreign residents of Chiang Rai.

A cultural event that comes to my mind where more foreigners participated was the violin concert of Vadim Tjijik two years ago

in the beautiful Sala Kaew at the lake of Rai Mae Fah Luang: 24 persons.

The topper was of course the opening of the exhibition 'Chiang Rai Through Foreign Eyes' at the National Museum of Chiang Saen

where fifteen foreign residents of Chiang Rai showed photographs that reflected their way of looking at Chiang Rai.

Together with their friends they made a crowd of 35 persons strong.

The football game Chiang Rai United only attracted 14 persons of foreign origine, a sign that the cultural level of the average 'farang'

in Chiang Rai is higher than what one would expect at first glance 55555!

Anyhow: coming Saturday July 11 at 6 o'clock at the stadium of Chiang Rai, a chance to improve this number.

Limbo

The foreigners on the picture are (from left) Marc, the Swiss hotel manager of The Legend Resort with John, a Dutch former museum curator and the Dutch artist Cornelis.

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.Since the posting above appeared in these columns we all got one year and nine months older,

that's for sure! Time goes ...

Chiangrai United was mentioned, then still a new local club playing in the Second Division

Region North. Who could have guessed that it less than two years later would belong to the

top in Thai football and thus would be playing in the Thai Premier League?

But what happened to Dutch Cornelis, who at that moment for the first time showed his work at

the 9 Art Gallery? We didn't know yet if he was going to be a flash in the pan artistically or

if he would show perseverance and persistence in his quest for a new visual language and thus

would continue the further development of his experimental techniques.

After this very first exhibition other galleries followed in rapid succession. His ‘cornelages’ were

shown in the 116 Art Gallery in Chiang Mai, in the Riverside Gallery in Nan, in the Rotunda

Garden Gallery in Bangkok, in a group exhibition with other foreign artists in Le Meridien and

recently in the gallery of the prestigious Hortus Botanicus in Amsterdam.

With other words, six exhibitions in twenty months! An amazing result for a 'debutant'!

Future exhibitions are planned for the Mumu Gallery in Chiangmai and Gallerie Zoetermeer in the

Netherlands.

Alltogether Cornelis made about 216 works during the last two years of which a little bit more

than half are sold already.

For more information about these exhibitions you could choose to have a look on Youtube,

where you will find about 8 short 'tubes' about his work.

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To get an idea about his latest works you might want to have a look at:

https://cid-7608b01a5652f694.photos.live.com/browse.aspx/a%20part%20of%20the%20last%20works

From the second of April until the second of May 2011 his work can be seen in Chiang Rai again,

this time at the Rai Mae Fah Luang Cultural Park in Ban Pa Ngiew.

The opening is Saturday the 2nd of April at 5 p.m. and will be presided

over by Ass. Prof. Dr. Suree Bhumibhamon of Mae Fah Luang University.

If the front gate is closed you can use the backsite gate (Kaew Ma Loon).

Limbo

PS: For more information about Cornelis and his work please stroll back in this thread

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9 Art Gallery / Architect Studio

As mentioned before: Chiang Rai has the potential to develop itself into

an Honfleur, a Ubud, a Bergen, with other words into one of these smaller

towns that for the one reason or the other attracted artists. Those, in their

turn made the towns famous for being the place where so much beauty was

created that founds its way into all corners of our world.

The 'Sala' of Chiang Rai artists counts more than forty members, including

those who had to move to other places, as Chiang Rai, their greatest source

of inspiration, didn't offer them the conditions that should enable them to

earn a decent living with their art.

Thanks to pioneers like Khun Saowannee and Khun Sompong, who founded

the 9 Art Gallery / Architect Studio, Chiang Rai artists got a forum where they

could show their work and establish contact with those that are interested in

art and culture.

For foreign artists living in Chiang Rai they have created a stimulating

and motivating environment, a place for artistic exchange and thus a path

to integration. Canadian Robert Blair Porter was probably the first

foreign artist ever that showed his work at 9 Art Gallery and American Lisa

Moses and Dutch Cornelis Hoek would follow him in the years that followed.

On the 'cornelages' and the man who makes them

Cornelis was already 71 years when he asked me to come and have a look at

his work. I was extremely surprised by the fact that he had developed this

very particular 'collage' oriented style of working and that he nevertheless

had managed to make it subservient to the expression of his artistic feelings

and capacity.

I must honestly admit that at first I was looking fascinated into the picture,

looking for the strokes of the brushes, in this case the cuts of the scissors,

before realizing that it was just as possible simply to look at it.

I was surprised about the quality, very surprised, and I was happy to hear that

some months later also Khun Saowannee confirmed my early observations by granting

him an exhibition. Here we have in Cornelis a foreigner living in Chiang Rai that

at a higher age suddenly turns a page and starts to work again. And he creates a

succes story: Six exhibitions in less than two years, a gigantic production of more

than two hundred works during the same period (roughly three days for one) and a

little bit more than halve of it sold. A dream for an artist!

But, as is undoubtly also the case for Lisa and Robert, it was Khun Saowannee Sarasap

of the 9 Art Gallery that gave him an enormous push of support in his endeavours by

earthing his artistic self-confidence in allowing him to go public with his work.

I recommend everybody who wants to stay in touch with the 9 Art Gallery to send

a note in which you ask to be added to their mailing list.

Please see: http://www.9artgallery.com/

Limbo

Some pictures taken last Saturday at the opening of Cornelis' present exhibition

at the Rai Mae Fah Luang at:

https://cid-7608b01a5652f694.photos.live.com/play.aspx/opening%202%20uur%20geleden?Bsrc=Photomail&Bpub=SDX.Photos

As this is my last contribution to this thread I thank those

who have been reading it and, as I in the mean time have had

the privilege and pleasure to meet most of you, I would say:

"See you next time there where it happens!"

Edited April 4, 2011 by Limbo

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9 Art Gallery / Architect Studio

As mentioned before: Chiang Rai has the potential to develop itself into

an Honfleur, a Ubud, a Bergen, with other words into one of these smaller

towns that for the one reason or the other attracted artists. Those, in their

turn made the towns famous for being the place where so much beauty was

created that founds its way into all corners of our world.

The 'Sala' of Chiang Rai artists counts more than forty members, including

those who had to move to other places, as Chiang Rai, their greatest source

of inspiration, didn't offer them the conditions that should enable them to

earn a decent living with their art.

Thanks to pioneers like Khun Saowannee and Khun Sompong, who founded

the 9 Art Gallery / Architect Studio, Chiang Rai artists got a forum where they

could show their work and establish contact with those that are interested in

art and culture.

For foreign artists living in Chiang Rai they have created a stimulating

and motivating environment, a place for artistic exchange and thus a path

to integration. Canadian Robert Blair Porter was probably the first

foreign artist ever that showed his work at 9 Art Gallery and American Lisa

Moses and Dutch Cornelis Hoek would follow him in the years that followed.

On the 'cornelages' and the man who makes them

Cornelis was already 71 years when he asked me to come and have a look at

his work. I was extremely surprised by the fact that he had developed this

very particular 'collage' oriented style of working and that he nevertheless

had managed to make it subservient to the expression of his artistic feelings

and capacity.

I must honestly admit that at first I was looking fascinated into the picture,

looking for the strokes of the brushes, in this case the cuts of the scissors,

before realizing that it was just as possible simply to look at it.

I was surprised about the quality, very surprised, and I was happy to hear that

some months later also Khun Saowannee confirmed my early observations by granting

him an exhibition. Here we have in Cornelis a foreigner living in Chiang Rai that

at a higher age suddenly turns a page and starts to work again. And he creates a

succes story: Six exhibitions in less than two years, a gigantic production of more

than two hundred works during the same period (roughly three days for one) and a

little bit more than halve of it sold. A dream for an artist!

But, as is undoubtly also the case for Lisa and Robert, it was Khun Saowannee Sarasap

of the 9 Art Gallery that gave him an enormous push of support in his endeavours by

earthing his artistic self-confidence in allowing him to go public with his work.

I recommend everybody who wants to stay in touch with the 9 Art Gallery to send

a note in which you ask to be added to their mailing list.

Please see: http://www.9artgallery.com/

Limbo

Some pictures taken last Saturday at the opening of Cornelis' present exhibition

at the Rai Mae Fah Luang at:

https://cid-7608b01a...Bpub=SDX.Photos

As this is my last contribution to this thread I thank those

who have been reading it and, as I in the mean time have had

the privilege and pleasure to meet most of you, I would say:

"See you next time there where it happens!"

Limbo:

Thank you posting. I hope you continue similar threads.

If you enjoy performance art installations, imagine this on the mae nam Kong: http://www.waterfire.org/

Regards,

Bahnhof

[bahnhof]

Is Khun Suwannee related to the Wyeth somehow?

Asa, It took a moment. Good reference to "Christina's World."