An intimate exhibition-dinner with Ailadi // St Regis Bangkok

I have always thought that it is not by chance that we meet extraordinary people, but it happens for a specific reason. The first time I met Ailadi, it was almost 7 years ago and since that time she had shown a strong and recognizable style line in her drawings. She has been drawing since she was a child as self-taught, and her style has evolved from an essential continuous black line, to colorful and very detailed artworks and back to minimal monochrome color. She experiments different techniques, materials, using nib pen & colored ink, acrylic, watercolor, oil, monotype, plasticine, photography, computer graphics and collage. I had the opportunity to see her talent growing up and if someone would have told me that we would have meet again after 7 years in Bangkok, having the chance to follow closely the organization of her solo exhibition  I would probably find hard to believe on. Well, let me tell you that this became true. Ailadi solo exhibition, curated by Tommaso Maggio started on January 10, 2012 at the hotel St. Regis Bangkok. For the opening event there was organized an intimate dinner with selected guests, a rare experience event savoring four-course dinner created by Chef Leonardo Concezzi. For the occasion VIU International Grill Restaurant at the St. Regis Bangkok was transformed into an artistic atelier. The menu was created based on a special color selection:

white [celeriac mousse, atlantic scallops wrapped in colonnata lard, burrata cheese spuma, caramel nuts, snow fish carpaccio].
green [house made artichoke ravioli, green pea buffalo mozzarella foam].
red [warm wagyu beef tartar, slow cooked venison, tuscany farm bruschetta].
blue [curacao granite, thai herbs infused souse,sweet egg yolk, cold San Pellegrino with bollicine liquid].

The exhibition will run until January 14, 2012. During all week Ailadi will create original art works documenting her life.  I warmly suggest to have a look to her micro paintings series [4cmx4cm], she has started this series when she has moved to Shanghai. It is a kind of physical micro diary, where she draws what happens to her during the day. What I most like of this series is the use of animal stickers as her head to underline the influences that she gets living in China. To whom is not familiar with Asia culture these stickers are a trend in this side of the world. Congratulation Aila!

Below behind the scene // a day before the opening

Below the opening painting diary // StRegis Bangkok January 10, 2012

Below the opening event Ailadi solo exhibition // StRegis Bangkok January 10, 2012

Below the intimate dinner menu created by Chef Leonardo Concezzi with Ailadi illustrations.