Kumnooh: Cambodia arts for week commencing 5 July 2022

Greetings:

This Saturday 9 at FT Gallery presents the opening of a new group exhibition: Art Culture Inside/Out, coordinated by Chhan Dina.  “Art Culture Inside/Out aims to create points of connection between established artists who already have visibility and broad representation, to create encounters, to exhibit varied and complementary styles, and to be intergenerational.”  From 4 pm.
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Also on Saturday, at 6 pm, Sra’Art presents the closing the exhibition Understanding by linocut block printing artist Morn Chea.  
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At Silapak Trotchaek Pneik // by YK Art House on Sunday 10 at 6 pm, the launch of Dancers, by Colin Grafton, including author’s talk.  Copies of the book will be on sale. 
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Next Tuesday, 12 July at The Gallerist, the opening of a new exhibition of the paintings of Takakazu Yamada.
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Pi-Pet-Pi Gallery
has announced its closure, with a new gallery on St 240 coming soon. 

For a more rock’n’roll view of Phnom Penh and the wider Cambodian music scene, please check out our sister publication lengpleng.com, the long running live music gig guide.

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Fabian Hipp
Kumnooh
fabianhipp@kumnooh.com
 
 


Ongoing…. exhibitions, dance performances and others


Exhibitions:  
Chhan Dina Gallery
An on-going display of Chhan Dina’s work from throughout her career is augmented, on a rolling schedule, with works of contemporary masters and up-and-coming painters.    
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The Gallerist
“The Gallerist, located in the heart of the capital city on street 240, is driven by the only motto “art matters”. We are fortunate to be working with some of the most creative artists and strongly believe in a collaborative approach towards our projects. The Gallerist’s curators carefully choose original artworks among astonishing and unique Cambodia visual art pieces.”
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Hyatt Regency Phnom Penh / Tribe Art Cambodia
The work of Nak Noy.  Media:  Khmer Times
 
Java Creative Café Tuol Tom Pong
Memory House is a photo series by emerging Cambodian-Australian artist and film-maker Allison Chhorn. The series explore traces and shadow memories of the family plastic house the artist worked in with her Cambodian refugee parents when she was younger. 
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Meta House
Blush with the Past, a new exhibition of paintings by Ny Vannak.  “Sculptures of antiquity, from both the west and east, are recreated on canvas, blooming with elaborate pigmentation; a vigorous approach to reinventing ancient portraiture, from David to the Bayon.  For her exhibition Blush with the Past, Ny Vannak combines her interest in the wide world of faces and her love of vivid colour.”
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Plantation
Convergence, a dual exhibition by artworks from two different artists, Théo Vallier and Grégory Gosselin, who both work with metal. 
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Romchiek 5 Art Space 
Battambang contemporary art studio.  Rolling exhibitions.  
 
Sa Sa Art Projects
Threshold, an exhibition by Tan Vatey, Neak Sophal and Sao Sreymao.  “Through artworks in diverse forms from photographs, sculptures, and installations, the exhibition speaks about experiences, feelings, and new perspectives of the artists arising from the shifting environments, societal changes, attempts to reconcile, and endeavors in seeking new ways to face the unique turning point of the social order as much as the natural course of life.”  Until 16 July. 
 
Silapak Trotchaek Pneik // by YK Art House
My Self, My Body, My World, by Heng Ravuth.  Through until 9 July.   Media:  Post Khmer  (in Khmer)  Phnom Penh Post  (English)  Cambodianess (English)
 
Space Four Zero
Prints, paintings, vintage posters, pop art, CDs and vinyl.  Open daily. 
More info 
 
Sra’Art
Understanding, by linocut block printing artist Morn Chea, in close collaboration with Open Studio Cambodia.   Until 9 July.
More info 
 
 
 
Regular events, classes, sessions:
 
Improv Cambodia now offer weekly improv classes, Wednesdays from 7 pm at Ikigai Arts Center.
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Ikigai Arts Center offer life drawing sessions on Thursdays, with teacher), 6.30 pm
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Regular on Saturdays at Sra’Art offer classes in art history and techniques: 9 am for children and 11 am for adults.  
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Also regular on Saturdays mornings at Botanico, presented by Sra’Art, hour-long kids’ art sessions, 10 am and 11 am. 
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N o w h e r e Art Studio
A range of arts and crafts workshops at different times.  Saturday 16, 9 am: self-portrait in acrylic.

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