A Cult Pop Artist Chooses To Showcase His Latest Creation In Bangkok. Amit Dixit Reports On The Frenzy That Follows
Bangkok has more layers than an onion, each layer an entire universe. One of these layers is, of course, retail. Bangkok’s frenetic shopping scene will set the pulse of even the most reluctant consumer racing. Elevated walkways transport shopaholics seamlessly between malls which loom over Bangkok like benevolent deities. There must be a million stores and more here, all heaving with merchandise and utterly fashionable shoppers. Queen bee among Bangkok’s malls is quite possibly Central Embassy, an infinity-shaped mall bristling with possibilities which owes its name to its location on the grounds of the British High Commission. I’m no mall rat, but I know a nice mall when I see one. And Central Embassy is really, really nice.
Of course, I wasn’t in Bangkok to shop. It was a more rarefied layer of the onion I was after. What I hadn’t known until recently was that Bangkok has a keen appreciation of cutting edge art. But, being Bangkok, it was all happening at the mall. Central Embassy, which routinely celebrates the arts with exhibitions on its premises, was unveiling KAWS: BFF, an eight-metre-tall sculpture by the Brooklyn-based artist known as KAWS (a combination of letters he found interesting and adopted).
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