Art in Paradise
ast month, Art in Paradise, the self-proclaimed “largest interactive art museum in the world,” opened in a lovely old building that once housed a department store on Chang Klan Road. Art in Paradise Chiang Mai is the second edition of a museum that has operated successfully in Pattaya for the past year, with plans for a third location in Bangkok on the horizon. Founded by South Korean visual artist and chairman Jang Kyu Suk, the museum is the result of an over 60 million baht investment . Indeed, this museum is probably quite unlike any art museum you’ve experienced before. Here, all the art is painted directly onto the walls, though you wouldn’t know it at first glance. Everything (including the frames themselves) is an optical illusion, designed to appear three dimensional. The desired effect becomes more striking in photos than in real life - an interesting twist on the age-old “you had to be there”.