Unlock Art
About Unlock Art
Le Méridien has created unique partnerships to provide guests with access to contemporary cultural centers around the world. Explore an inspiring cultural experience nearby select Le Méridien hotels, by presenting the Unlock Art™ pass found in your room.
In addition, each room keycard is a work of art itself, created exclusively by LM100™ members. Hisham Bharoocha, Sam Samore and Yan Lei have each created a unique keycard collection for Le Méridien.
Every guests who check in to Le Meridien around the around will receive a room key that does more than just opening rooms, it provides access to a local contemporary cultural experience. The key art becomes a curated collection of works that Le Meridien features throughout the experience. Each Le Meridien around the world launched partnership with contemporary cultural institutions to encourage guests to explore the modern culture of the destination. For Plaza Athenee Bangkok, A Royal Meridien Hotel, 100 Tonson Gallery is the contemporary cultural partner.
About 100 Tonson Gallery
Village and Elsewhere
13 Oct 2011 - 8 Jan 2012
100 Tonson Gallery proudly presents "Village and Elsewhere", the solo video and photography exhibition from a distinguished Thai female artist, Araya Rasdjarmarearnsook, who has participated in numerous solo and significant group exhibitions such as 51st Venice Biennale (Venice, Italy), 17th Sydney Biennale (Sydney, Australia), TRA The Edge of Reason at the Palazzo Fortuny 2011 (Venice, Italy) etc.
Inspired by "the Two Planets Series", her previous work in 2008, it combines the conversation and creates outstanding messages between masterpieces paintings by Van Gogh, Manet, Millet, and Renior and Chiang Mai's local scenes. It tells us about relationships between one place and another through the context of modern art.
Village and Elsewhere brings villagers to the communal ground of a Buddhist temple and faces them with contemporary artworks that are hanged among colorful paintings telling previous lives of the Lord Buddha. Unscripted responses from old people, children and monks (including homosexual monks) in response to provocative images of contemporary art by Jeff Koons, etc demonstrate how viewers see them in a different cultural perception, relating (or do not relating) to the current art world. The village is here and anything foreign to them is elsewhere. Or shall we look at it the other way round?
This exhibition will also include the documentary works that has been done in Japan, arranged by 100 Tonson Gallery in collaboration with Tokyo Wonder Site. In the documentary, the artist becomes a foreigner, bringing foreign images (her Two Planets Series, images of works by Jeff Koons and Cindy Sherman, and the work in 2007 "Insane") to a village and recording the monks and female psychosis patients' response to these objects and video from elsewhere.
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