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Navin's Sala - July 17, 2008

This show is located inside the River Promenade condo sales building and runs until August 10, 2008. GoogleEarth Placemark
There is a shuttle boat that leaves from the hotel shuttle boat pier at Taksin Bridge. For more info call Bangkok Art Map (BAM) at 02-252-3900. Navin Party website - Navin on Wikipedia


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"Quotations from Comrade Navin"


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Comrade Navin figures with the Chao Phraya River in the background


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Vintage Thai-styled movie poster documenting a Navin adventure


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"He's Back!" - Jim Thompson appears on the Skytrain


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Series of "Lost in the City" paintings


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Panel 1 from the "Lost in the City" series - These paintings document practically every vignette that makes up present-day Bangkok--from drunken men asleep in front of a temple to protesters at Democracy Monument. Each painting is fronted by a Bangkok-style curb. Here a smashed plastic cup and dog droppings are on the curb.


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Everything is themed around the artist, Navin Rawanchaikul. Even the ubiquitous rumpled newspaper sitting on a chair is a copy of The Navinist.


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The 9-meter long "Navin's Sala" features characters who have appeared in navin's art over the years.


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"Where is Navin?"

 

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