Category: Visual Art

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Curator Nina Miall on Future Perfect’s “The Pulse of Time” Exhibition

  Future Perfect will present “The Pulse of Time", bringing together the work of two critically-acclaimed mid-career female artists, Caroline Rothwell and Chiharu Shiota. The investigation of materiality is a central concern of both sculptors. "The Pulse of Time" explores how a wide range of materials are used, how perspective is changed or transformed, framed or altered, limited only by the artist’s imagination, weaving together notions of memory and identity. “The artists’ Read more
Posted: 13 May, 2013 Visual Art Shortlink
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“Kids”: A Solo Exhibition by Anna Navasardian

  Armenian-born, New York-based young artist Anna Navasardian, 24, is exhibiting a solo show entitled "Kids" at Michael Janssen Singapore. Consisting of life-size paintings featuring intimate portraits of adult and school-aged subjects, Navasardian's work demonstrates incredible weight and depth far beyond her years. A number of the works on display are from the artist's title series which explores themes such as identity, puberty, growing up, memory and recollection. Navasardian Read more
Posted: 1 May, 2013 Visual Art Shortlink
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Thukral and Tagra: Windows of Opportunity

  While Singapore is currently entrenched in emotional debates on the risks and benefits of immigration, Art Plural Gallery presents the latest collection by artists Thukral and Tagra who tackle this topic from a much less dogmatic standpoint by diving into the minds of Indian immigrants on the very day they become immigrants. Both artists are proudly from New Delhi and focus on themes pertinent to contemporary Punjabi society, such as the emerging consumer class or the taboo of contraception. Read more
Posted: 24 March, 2013 Visual Art Shortlink
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Of Spirit and Splendour – Barkcloth Art of the Ömie

  ReDot Fine Art Gallery brings the works of the Ömie people back to Singapore, in an exhibition which should charm anthropologists and designers alike. The Ömie tribe lives separated from the rest of the World, under an old volcano in remote Papua New Guinea. The Ömie women are the artists of the tribe, as part of their broader responsibilities as guardians of customary cultural law. These artists make their own skirts, a blessing in disguise considering most of them couldn’t spend Read more
Posted: 19 March, 2013 Visual Art Shortlink
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Zhao Renhui: A Photographer’s Obsession with Animals

  Singaporean photographer Zhao Renhui reflects on his evolving practice as he seeks to challenge the preconceived notions of the zoological gaze. Through the barrel of a lens and under the name of a fictional institution, The Institute of Critical Zoologists (ICZ), Zhao's images are both visions of possible pasts and futures, testing the role photography plays in the dissemination of truth and the assumptions of reality. Coke drinking camel, Dubai, 2006NW: I’ve been following your work, Read more
Posted: 11 March, 2013 Photography, Visual Art Shortlink
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Decoding “Coded Transformations” with Andreas Schlegel

  “Coded Transformations” is an experimental project by Singapore-based new media artist Andreas Schlegel. Through a series of experiments, physical data is transformed with digital processes where the resulting outcomes are reproductions in physical formats. Currently being exhibited at The Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore at the LASALLE College of the Arts, the experiments and their outcomes cleverly use new computing and manufacturing technologies to produce new forms of Read more
Posted: 31 January, 2013 Visual Art Shortlink
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From Centre Stage to the Periphery: Art Stage 2013

  The international art world descends in Singapore this week as the third edition of Art Stage Singapore opens its doors to the public this Thursday. In an effort to distinguish itself from other international art fairs on the global circuit, Art Stage is enhancing its Asia focus. In fact, three quarters of the 131 participating galleries this year are from this region. To sharpen its Southeast Asia focus, the fair has further created a dedicated space for Indonesian art featuring up Read more
Posted: 23 January, 2013 Visual Art Shortlink
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Surrounded by Water, Over the Water

  Equator Art Projects’ current show entitled Surrounded by Water, Over the Water is a group exhibition featuring new works from Filipino artists including Jonathan Ching, Mariano Ching, Lena Cobangbang, Louie, Cordero, Geraldine Javier, Keiye Miranda, Mike Munoz, Yasmin Sison and Wire Tuazon. Filipino avant-garde visual artist Wire Tuazon founded a group of young artists called “Surrounded by Water” in 1998. The collective rented a studio space along the Manila East Road in Read more
Posted: 24 December, 2012 Visual Art Shortlink
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Moonlight Winter Descends on Tanjong Pagar

  There is nothing flatter than a piece of paper and nothing drier than the graphite inside a pencil. Yet some magicians are able to put the two together and create things that are voluminous, abundant, cold and wet all at once. One of those magicians is Guram Dolenjashvili whose work is currently on display at the Artspace @ Helu-Trans at 39 Keppel Road, until 20 December 2012. The more recent works on display, dating from 2001 to 2012, mainly illustrate landscapes covered in snow. Read more
Posted: 4 December, 2012 Visual Art Shortlink
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Nathan Sawaya — The Art of the Brick

  When making the transition from being a corporate lawyer to the world’s leading Lego artist, Nathan Sawaya says he found himself. The Art of Brick exhibition, currently showing at the MBS ArtScience Museum until April 2013, is partially dedicated to telling his life story and what led him to leave the corporate boardrooms to focus on his childhood passion. The artist encourages each of us to connect with our inner child, a time when we were more creative, open-minded and imaginative Read more
Posted: 16 November, 2012 Visual Art Shortlink