Butterflies and solitude
The opening of 100 Tonson Gallery’s “Chatchai Puipia: Sites Of Solitude. Still-Life, Self-Portraiture, And The Living Archive” last month seemed to have been an unmissable event for every prominent figure in the Bangkok art scene, except for Chatchai himself. It’s not that there was something urgent he had to attend to; he had no intention of going, not when the show was being set up, nor when it…