Posted by: artexpresso on: September 11, 2006
LIU Jianhua Dream, 2005-6, Mixed Media Installation, Sculpture Square A sense of destruction comes to mind when we are greeted by rubble or porcelain or white Celedon ware at the Sculpture Square Gallery. Place in a semi-darkened space, the work consists of a wall video projection, with a Chinese voice-over and Chinese subtitles of the [...]
Posted by: artexpresso on: September 8, 2006
Dear Diary, I must profess to be a person that doesn’t write to you. It does feel awkward, but I am sure you will understand. An artist doesn’t write about such things, they either end up spiralling into a fiction, or self-wallow at time spent away from the canvas. The visit to City Hall happened [...]
Posted by: artexpresso on: September 7, 2006
The Singapore Biennale 2006 (SB2006) visual arts exhibition opened on Monday, September 4th to the public after luke warm response from curious passerbys at the padang party on September 1st, Friday. It is now official, there will be an admission charge into certain venues. The theme of Singapore’s first visual arts Biennale SB2006 revolves around [...]
Posted by: artexpresso on: September 7, 2006
Tommy Angel #1-#3, #5-#10, 2005-2006, Black and White Photographs, 122 x 91cm each, courtesy of David Risley Gallery, London, on display at City Hall The curious and enigmatic photographs by Jonathan Allen can best be described as a maze. The viewer is led into his elaborate, well considered labyrinth display, each well lit in a [...]
Posted by: artexpresso on: September 7, 2006
Pat and Gerhard at p-10 for a round table discussion with local artists on the effects of a Biennale. March 26, 2006. More international coverage on the Biennale may be found at: http://universes-in-universe.de/car/singapore/eng/2006/index.htm <SAMPLE, author’s name goes here!>
Posted by: artexpresso on: September 7, 2006
“Belief” is the theme chosen for Singapore’s inaugural Art Biennale. It almost suggests that art is some sort of quasi-religion, with the faithful making their pilgrimages around the world to see the ‘best’ art. Will this mega visual art exhibition, tracing its parentage to National Art Exhibitions in the 70s, Singapore Art fairs in the [...]
