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WHAT IS SHOCK ART?

What is Shock Art? One would imagine that any visit to a gallery, one of the bastions of the art world, is an encounter with the aesthetic from which one emerges enlightened. The word ‘art’ itself has its associations with beauty and craftsmanship, and rightly so, given the oft-touted examples of aesthetic achievement like the Mona Lisa or THE MAKING OF ART APART FAIR: AN INTIMATE CONVERSATION 6th Jul 2016. When we first wrote about the Art Apart Fair, it was held in a hotel. Come 11 July, the Art Apart Fair moves into the heart of Orchard Road, with its 8 th edition debuting at Isetan Wisma Atria. The Art Apart Fair first broke the notion of fine art and its white cube environment by holding the fair in a hotel—so why the shift? THE MULTIPLICITY OF TOTALITY IN 'NG ENG TENG: 1+1=1' An invitation into discovering the complexity that Ng’s works afford, Ng Eng Teng: 1+1=1 breathes new life into our previous conceptions of the artist’s works, complicating, tangling, and altogether unsteadying our fixed notions of the man himself—opening up to us a horizon of possibility. SOME DEATHS CAN’T BE BURIED The use of aesthetics in this sense ensures that works of art and their ceremonious activities buttress the superiority of the alchemical power of the Thai state. Sethaseree’s Some Deaths Can’t Be Buried explores an interrelation between these concepts of aesthetics and totalitarianism. The significant forms of this interrelation mediate PAINTING PHOTOGRAPHS ANEW Relying on archival photographs of Chinese coolies, Singapore artist May Oon rendered her version of these photographs using oil and charcoal, presenting 14 new works that pay tribute to the unnamed immigrants who helped build Singapore in her latest solo

REVIEW: JASON LIM

Image in header: Duet with light, performance (1.5 hours approx.), 9 February 2018. Photo: Ken Cheong. Jason Lim, Duet with light, 9 February 2018, performance (2 hours approx.), Encounter under the banyan, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, LASALLE College of the Arts.Photo: Weizhong Deng. Walter Pater defined the art object as something we know only through “impressions, unstable

THE SPACES BETWEEN

The intimate connection between space and memory is a theme not only recurrent, but also a resounding one, in Do Ho Suh’s works. From buildings to rooms – attention paid to the smallest of details, the South Korean artist is determined to capture every remnant of history as accurately as possible. NOT JUST A HAPPY ENDING We all love a good underdog story—a humble man working his way up from nothing, overcoming trials, and eventually reaching great success. It hence comes with no surprise that Voice of a Karang Guni Man has received much attention online (Mothership, Razor TV) .. The artist behind the show, Mr. Tan Chong Bin was born in Singapore in 1952 and is a rag-and-bone man by profession.

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Be our Premium Partner. Sign up for a Premium account that allows you full access to a profile page on ArtHop, plus the flexibility of submitting and editing your events at anytime. KWAN HUA ART GALLERY Kwan Hua Art Gallery, also known as “冠华画廊”, our mandarin moniker is explained as follows: “冠 (guang)” which means “crown”; “华 (hua)” which means “Chinese” and “画廊 (hua lang)” which means “art gallery”. We believe in being a leading art gallery, to attain a crown in the Chinese arts industry

through

WHAT IS SHOCK ART?

What is Shock Art? One would imagine that any visit to a gallery, one of the bastions of the art world, is an encounter with the aesthetic from which one emerges enlightened. The word ‘art’ itself has its associations with beauty and craftsmanship, and rightly so, given the oft-touted examples of aesthetic achievement like the Mona Lisa or THE MAKING OF ART APART FAIR: AN INTIMATE CONVERSATION 6th Jul 2016. When we first wrote about the Art Apart Fair, it was held in a hotel. Come 11 July, the Art Apart Fair moves into the heart of Orchard Road, with its 8 th edition debuting at Isetan Wisma Atria. The Art Apart Fair first broke the notion of fine art and its white cube environment by holding the fair in a hotel—so why the shift? THE MULTIPLICITY OF TOTALITY IN 'NG ENG TENG: 1+1=1' An invitation into discovering the complexity that Ng’s works afford, Ng Eng Teng: 1+1=1 breathes new life into our previous conceptions of the artist’s works, complicating, tangling, and altogether unsteadying our fixed notions of the man himself—opening up to us a horizon of possibility. SOME DEATHS CAN’T BE BURIED The use of aesthetics in this sense ensures that works of art and their ceremonious activities buttress the superiority of the alchemical power of the Thai state. Sethaseree’s Some Deaths Can’t Be Buried explores an interrelation between these concepts of aesthetics and totalitarianism. The significant forms of this interrelation mediate PAINTING PHOTOGRAPHS ANEW Relying on archival photographs of Chinese coolies, Singapore artist May Oon rendered her version of these photographs using oil and charcoal, presenting 14 new works that pay tribute to the unnamed immigrants who helped build Singapore in her latest solo

REVIEW: JASON LIM

Image in header: Duet with light, performance (1.5 hours approx.), 9 February 2018. Photo: Ken Cheong. Jason Lim, Duet with light, 9 February 2018, performance (2 hours approx.), Encounter under the banyan, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, LASALLE College of the Arts.Photo: Weizhong Deng. Walter Pater defined the art object as something we know only through “impressions, unstable

THE SPACES BETWEEN

The intimate connection between space and memory is a theme not only recurrent, but also a resounding one, in Do Ho Suh’s works. From buildings to rooms – attention paid to the smallest of details, the South Korean artist is determined to capture every remnant of history as accurately as possible. NOT JUST A HAPPY ENDING We all love a good underdog story—a humble man working his way up from nothing, overcoming trials, and eventually reaching great success. It hence comes with no surprise that Voice of a Karang Guni Man has received much attention online (Mothership, Razor TV) .. The artist behind the show, Mr. Tan Chong Bin was born in Singapore in 1952 and is a rag-and-bone man by profession. HOW TO TALK ABOUT ART Art appreciation, on the other hand, is thankfully a lot simpler. Although contemporary art can be difficult to comprehend, art is always intended for an audience and there are ways to bridge that understanding. Here’s our guide to help deepen your art experience, or strike a conversation with a fellow event-goer. THE MULTIPLICITY OF TOTALITY IN 'NG ENG TENG: 1+1=1' An invitation into discovering the complexity that Ng’s works afford, Ng Eng Teng: 1+1=1 breathes new life into our previous conceptions of the artist’s works, complicating, tangling, and altogether unsteadying our fixed notions of the man himself—opening up to us a horizon of possibility. PAINTING PHOTOGRAPHS ANEW Relying on archival photographs of Chinese coolies, Singapore artist May Oon rendered her version of these photographs using oil and charcoal, presenting 14 new works that pay tribute to the unnamed immigrants who helped build Singapore in her latest solo WHAT IS LACQUER ART? VIETNAMESE LACQUER PAINTINGS IN SINGAPORE In Vietnam, the lacquer is a resin of the lacquer tree planted mostly in the Northern Vietnamese province of Phu Tho. After extraction from trees, natural lacquer is white with a milk-like consistency. It turns brown after coming into contact with air, and becomes black once dried. Hardened lacquer forms a lustrous, durable surface impervious 8 LESSONS FROM AN ART COLLECTOR There’s a saying that goes—a room filled with art is a room filled with thoughts. Artwork leads you to imagine and in turn stimulates the creative thinking process.”. 6. As artworks become part of your collection, they become a part of who you are. A bronze-sculptured

snake

RE-MEMBERING

Too many episodes is a multi-layered exhibition. Just as all the featured exhibitions re-membered their constituents, this exhibition brings its constituents into a different configuration to generate new insights. This article, too, hopes that in its re-membering of the exhibition, that is has also created meanings of value. There are too

many

REVIEW: “…ALWAYS MOVING” THE BATIK ART OF SARKASI SAID Sarkasi Said, “. Always Moving” (Light), 2000, resist dye on fabric, 255cm x 253 cm, collection of the artist. Light is another work that showcases the artist’s extraordinary talent for depicting the immaterial. While in a coal mine, Sarkasi was stimulated by the lack of light to imagine how its presence might alter the landscape;

by

AHMAD SHUKRI MOHAMED AND UMIBAIZURAH MAHIR@ISMAIL: NEW About. Art Seasons is excited to present Malaysia leading contemporary artist, Ahmad Shukri Mohamed and Umibaizurah Mahir@Ismail duet exhibition in Art Seasons, titled “New Landscape”. Shukri and Umi, husband and wife, among them has won numerous art awards in Malaysia and in the region. They have accumulated many prominent and important THE SHIFTING SANDS OF POTONG PASIR Like many parts of Singapore, Potong Pasir (which collectively means ‘Cut Sand’) is an area that gets its name from what it once used to be: a sand quarry – one that teemed with bustling kampung life (kampung: Malay for village). Clusters of vegetable farms and four large ponds linked to the Kallang River brought the area’s kampung WHY K. RAJAGOPAL’S "A YELLOW BIRD" DESERVES YOUR TIME Photo courtesy of Akanga Film Asia. In a key moment in the film, a yellow bird—a symbol of hope—is shot. It falls out of its nest and onto the ground. Dead. This sudden act of violence resonates throughout the film, and punctuates it—the ending is a sequence motivated by Siva’s sheer desperation for forgiveness, for

redemption.

ARTHOP - PARTNER US

Be our Premium Partner. Sign up for a Premium account that allows you full access to a profile page on ArtHop, plus the flexibility of submitting and editing your events at anytime. KWAN HUA ART GALLERY Kwan Hua Art Gallery, also known as “冠华画廊”, our mandarin moniker is explained as follows: “冠 (guang)” which means “crown”; “华 (hua)” which means “Chinese” and “画廊 (hua lang)” which means “art gallery”. We believe in being a leading art gallery, to attain a crown in the Chinese arts industry

through

WHAT IS SHOCK ART?

What is Shock Art? One would imagine that any visit to a gallery, one of the bastions of the art world, is an encounter with the aesthetic from which one emerges enlightened. The word ‘art’ itself has its associations with beauty and craftsmanship, and rightly so, given the oft-touted examples of aesthetic achievement like the Mona Lisa or PAINTING PHOTOGRAPHS ANEW Relying on archival photographs of Chinese coolies, Singapore artist May Oon rendered her version of these photographs using oil and charcoal, presenting 14 new works that pay tribute to the unnamed immigrants who helped build Singapore in her latest solo

REVIEW: JASON LIM

Image in header: Duet with light, performance (1.5 hours approx.), 9 February 2018. Photo: Ken Cheong. Jason Lim, Duet with light, 9 February 2018, performance (2 hours approx.), Encounter under the banyan, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, LASALLE College of the Arts.Photo: Weizhong Deng. Walter Pater defined the art object as something we know only through “impressions, unstable THE MULTIPLICITY OF TOTALITY IN 'NG ENG TENG: 1+1=1' An invitation into discovering the complexity that Ng’s works afford, Ng Eng Teng: 1+1=1 breathes new life into our previous conceptions of the artist’s works, complicating, tangling, and altogether unsteadying our fixed notions of the man himself—opening up to us a horizon of possibility. SOME DEATHS CAN’T BE BURIED The use of aesthetics in this sense ensures that works of art and their ceremonious activities buttress the superiority of the alchemical power of the Thai state. Sethaseree’s Some Deaths Can’t Be Buried explores an interrelation between these concepts of aesthetics and totalitarianism. The significant forms of this interrelation mediate THE MAKING OF ART APART FAIR: AN INTIMATE CONVERSATION 6th Jul 2016. When we first wrote about the Art Apart Fair, it was held in a hotel. Come 11 July, the Art Apart Fair moves into the heart of Orchard Road, with its 8 th edition debuting at Isetan Wisma Atria. The Art Apart Fair first broke the notion of fine art and its white cube environment by holding the fair in a hotel—so why the shift? REVIEW: “…ALWAYS MOVING” THE BATIK ART OF SARKASI SAID Sarkasi Said, “. Always Moving” (Light), 2000, resist dye on fabric, 255cm x 253 cm, collection of the artist. Light is another work that showcases the artist’s extraordinary talent for depicting the immaterial. While in a coal mine, Sarkasi was stimulated by the lack of light to imagine how its presence might alter the landscape;

by

NOT JUST A HAPPY ENDING We all love a good underdog story—a humble man working his way up from nothing, overcoming trials, and eventually reaching great success. It hence comes with no surprise that Voice of a Karang Guni Man has received much attention online (Mothership, Razor TV) .. The artist behind the show, Mr. Tan Chong Bin was born in Singapore in 1952 and is a rag-and-bone man by profession.

ARTHOP - PARTNER US

Be our Premium Partner. Sign up for a Premium account that allows you full access to a profile page on ArtHop, plus the flexibility of submitting and editing your events at anytime. KWAN HUA ART GALLERY Kwan Hua Art Gallery, also known as “冠华画廊”, our mandarin moniker is explained as follows: “冠 (guang)” which means “crown”; “华 (hua)” which means “Chinese” and “画廊 (hua lang)” which means “art gallery”. We believe in being a leading art gallery, to attain a crown in the Chinese arts industry

through

WHAT IS SHOCK ART?

What is Shock Art? One would imagine that any visit to a gallery, one of the bastions of the art world, is an encounter with the aesthetic from which one emerges enlightened. The word ‘art’ itself has its associations with beauty and craftsmanship, and rightly so, given the oft-touted examples of aesthetic achievement like the Mona Lisa or PAINTING PHOTOGRAPHS ANEW Relying on archival photographs of Chinese coolies, Singapore artist May Oon rendered her version of these photographs using oil and charcoal, presenting 14 new works that pay tribute to the unnamed immigrants who helped build Singapore in her latest solo

REVIEW: JASON LIM

Image in header: Duet with light, performance (1.5 hours approx.), 9 February 2018. Photo: Ken Cheong. Jason Lim, Duet with light, 9 February 2018, performance (2 hours approx.), Encounter under the banyan, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, LASALLE College of the Arts.Photo: Weizhong Deng. Walter Pater defined the art object as something we know only through “impressions, unstable THE MULTIPLICITY OF TOTALITY IN 'NG ENG TENG: 1+1=1' An invitation into discovering the complexity that Ng’s works afford, Ng Eng Teng: 1+1=1 breathes new life into our previous conceptions of the artist’s works, complicating, tangling, and altogether unsteadying our fixed notions of the man himself—opening up to us a horizon of possibility. SOME DEATHS CAN’T BE BURIED The use of aesthetics in this sense ensures that works of art and their ceremonious activities buttress the superiority of the alchemical power of the Thai state. Sethaseree’s Some Deaths Can’t Be Buried explores an interrelation between these concepts of aesthetics and totalitarianism. The significant forms of this interrelation mediate THE MAKING OF ART APART FAIR: AN INTIMATE CONVERSATION 6th Jul 2016. When we first wrote about the Art Apart Fair, it was held in a hotel. Come 11 July, the Art Apart Fair moves into the heart of Orchard Road, with its 8 th edition debuting at Isetan Wisma Atria. The Art Apart Fair first broke the notion of fine art and its white cube environment by holding the fair in a hotel—so why the shift? REVIEW: “…ALWAYS MOVING” THE BATIK ART OF SARKASI SAID Sarkasi Said, “. Always Moving” (Light), 2000, resist dye on fabric, 255cm x 253 cm, collection of the artist. Light is another work that showcases the artist’s extraordinary talent for depicting the immaterial. While in a coal mine, Sarkasi was stimulated by the lack of light to imagine how its presence might alter the landscape;

by

NOT JUST A HAPPY ENDING We all love a good underdog story—a humble man working his way up from nothing, overcoming trials, and eventually reaching great success. It hence comes with no surprise that Voice of a Karang Guni Man has received much attention online (Mothership, Razor TV) .. The artist behind the show, Mr. Tan Chong Bin was born in Singapore in 1952 and is a rag-and-bone man by profession. HOW TO TALK ABOUT ART Art appreciation, on the other hand, is thankfully a lot simpler. Although contemporary art can be difficult to comprehend, art is always intended for an audience and there are ways to bridge that understanding. Here’s our guide to help deepen your art experience, or strike a conversation with a fellow event-goer. PAINTING PHOTOGRAPHS ANEW Relying on archival photographs of Chinese coolies, Singapore artist May Oon rendered her version of these photographs using oil and charcoal, presenting 14 new works that pay tribute to the unnamed immigrants who helped build Singapore in her latest solo AHMAD SHUKRI MOHAMED AND UMIBAIZURAH MAHIR@ISMAIL: NEW About. Art Seasons is excited to present Malaysia leading contemporary artist, Ahmad Shukri Mohamed and Umibaizurah Mahir@Ismail duet exhibition in Art Seasons, titled “New Landscape”. Shukri and Umi, husband and wife, among them has won numerous art awards in Malaysia and in the region. They have accumulated many prominent and important REVIEW: “…ALWAYS MOVING” THE BATIK ART OF SARKASI SAID Sarkasi Said, “. Always Moving” (Light), 2000, resist dye on fabric, 255cm x 253 cm, collection of the artist. Light is another work that showcases the artist’s extraordinary talent for depicting the immaterial. While in a coal mine, Sarkasi was stimulated by the lack of light to imagine how its presence might alter the landscape;

by

THE ART SPACE @ SUNTEC About. The Art Space @ Suntec is a space dedicated to art-related events and exhibitions. Featuring a 3,800 sqft of exhibition space, The Art Space @ Suntec is strategically located on the prime level 1 shopping belt in Suntec City Mall North Wing (Tower 1), opposite Lamborghini Showroom and

RE-MEMBERING

Too many episodes is a multi-layered exhibition. Just as all the featured exhibitions re-membered their constituents, this exhibition brings its constituents into a different configuration to generate new insights. This article, too, hopes that in its re-membering of the exhibition, that is has also created meanings of value. There are too

many

HOMING IN: THE STUDIO BEHIND SHIBUI FURNITURE COLLECTIVE Kim works with wood that he sources himself, designing and making them into furniture that strives for an understated, quiet beauty. It is no wonder that Kim chose the term Shibui — “simple, subtle, and unobtrusive beauty” in Japanese—for his collective. But craft requires space, and this is FLOWERS FOR X: PATRICIA EUSTAQUIO AT YAVUZ GALLERY Flowers for X presents us with a slew of seemingly delicate and beautiful flowers, rendered in pale pink, grey, and black. They are printed on flowing silk, splayed across the white floor of the gallery, and painted on circular canvases that are hung up on walls. The flowers limp and droop: these are not, strictly speaking, images of fresh flowers, but flowers that have seen better days. #PHOTOGRAPHERSONARTHOP: AN INTERVIEW WITH CHARMAINE POH Photo Credit: Charmaine Poh. Charmaine has documented the lives of different people as a photographer, from the LGBT community in Cambodia who do not have the rights to marry, to the female migrants from China who came to Singapore to seek work as domestic servants—the ma jies. During the interview, Charmaine shared an

anecdote with me.

ART GIANTS AT PLAY: AFTERTHOUGHTS ON ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH We recently wrote a review of Do Ho Suh: New Works which will be on show till 2 January 2016. Thereafter, Freely, Freely by Jane Lee will open on 17 January 2016.

ARTHOP - PARTNER US

Be our Premium Partner. Sign up for a Premium account that allows you full access to a profile page on ArtHop, plus the flexibility of submitting and editing your events at anytime. KWAN HUA ART GALLERY Kwan Hua Art Gallery, also known as “冠华画廊”, our mandarin moniker is explained as follows: “冠 (guang)” which means “crown”; “华 (hua)” which means “Chinese” and “画廊 (hua lang)” which means “art gallery”. We believe in being a leading art gallery, to attain a crown in the Chinese arts industry

through

WHAT IS LACQUER ART? VIETNAMESE LACQUER PAINTINGS IN SINGAPORE In Vietnam, the lacquer is a resin of the lacquer tree planted mostly in the Northern Vietnamese province of Phu Tho. After extraction from trees, natural lacquer is white with a milk-like consistency. It turns brown after coming into contact with air, and becomes black once dried. Hardened lacquer forms a lustrous, durable surface impervious

WHAT IS SHOCK ART?

What is Shock Art? One would imagine that any visit to a gallery, one of the bastions of the art world, is an encounter with the aesthetic from which one emerges enlightened. The word ‘art’ itself has its associations with beauty and craftsmanship, and rightly so, given the oft-touted examples of aesthetic achievement like the Mona Lisa or AHMAD SHUKRI MOHAMED AND UMIBAIZURAH MAHIR@ISMAIL: NEW About. Art Seasons is excited to present Malaysia leading contemporary artist, Ahmad Shukri Mohamed and Umibaizurah Mahir@Ismail duet exhibition in Art Seasons, titled “New Landscape”. Shukri and Umi, husband and wife, among them has won numerous art awards in Malaysia and in the region. They have accumulated many prominent and important

REVIEW: JASON LIM

Image in header: Duet with light, performance (1.5 hours approx.), 9 February 2018. Photo: Ken Cheong. Jason Lim, Duet with light, 9 February 2018, performance (2 hours approx.), Encounter under the banyan, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, LASALLE College of the Arts.Photo: Weizhong Deng. Walter Pater defined the art object as something we know only through “impressions, unstable SOME DEATHS CAN’T BE BURIED The use of aesthetics in this sense ensures that works of art and their ceremonious activities buttress the superiority of the alchemical power of the Thai state. Sethaseree’s Some Deaths Can’t Be Buried explores an interrelation between these concepts of aesthetics and totalitarianism. The significant forms of this interrelation mediate THE MULTIPLICITY OF TOTALITY IN 'NG ENG TENG: 1+1=1' An invitation into discovering the complexity that Ng’s works afford, Ng Eng Teng: 1+1=1 breathes new life into our previous conceptions of the artist’s works, complicating, tangling, and altogether unsteadying our fixed notions of the man himself—opening up to us a horizon of possibility. PAINTING PHOTOGRAPHS ANEW Relying on archival photographs of Chinese coolies, Singapore artist May Oon rendered her version of these photographs using oil and charcoal, presenting 14 new works that pay tribute to the unnamed immigrants who helped build Singapore in her latest solo REVIEW: “…ALWAYS MOVING” THE BATIK ART OF SARKASI SAID Sarkasi Said, “. Always Moving” (Light), 2000, resist dye on fabric, 255cm x 253 cm, collection of the artist. Light is another work that showcases the artist’s extraordinary talent for depicting the immaterial. While in a coal mine, Sarkasi was stimulated by the lack of light to imagine how its presence might alter the landscape;

by

ARTHOP - PARTNER US

Be our Premium Partner. Sign up for a Premium account that allows you full access to a profile page on ArtHop, plus the flexibility of submitting and editing your events at anytime. KWAN HUA ART GALLERY Kwan Hua Art Gallery, also known as “冠华画廊”, our mandarin moniker is explained as follows: “冠 (guang)” which means “crown”; “华 (hua)” which means “Chinese” and “画廊 (hua lang)” which means “art gallery”. We believe in being a leading art gallery, to attain a crown in the Chinese arts industry

through

WHAT IS LACQUER ART? VIETNAMESE LACQUER PAINTINGS IN SINGAPORE In Vietnam, the lacquer is a resin of the lacquer tree planted mostly in the Northern Vietnamese province of Phu Tho. After extraction from trees, natural lacquer is white with a milk-like consistency. It turns brown after coming into contact with air, and becomes black once dried. Hardened lacquer forms a lustrous, durable surface impervious

WHAT IS SHOCK ART?

What is Shock Art? One would imagine that any visit to a gallery, one of the bastions of the art world, is an encounter with the aesthetic from which one emerges enlightened. The word ‘art’ itself has its associations with beauty and craftsmanship, and rightly so, given the oft-touted examples of aesthetic achievement like the Mona Lisa or AHMAD SHUKRI MOHAMED AND UMIBAIZURAH MAHIR@ISMAIL: NEW About. Art Seasons is excited to present Malaysia leading contemporary artist, Ahmad Shukri Mohamed and Umibaizurah Mahir@Ismail duet exhibition in Art Seasons, titled “New Landscape”. Shukri and Umi, husband and wife, among them has won numerous art awards in Malaysia and in the region. They have accumulated many prominent and important

REVIEW: JASON LIM

Image in header: Duet with light, performance (1.5 hours approx.), 9 February 2018. Photo: Ken Cheong. Jason Lim, Duet with light, 9 February 2018, performance (2 hours approx.), Encounter under the banyan, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, LASALLE College of the Arts.Photo: Weizhong Deng. Walter Pater defined the art object as something we know only through “impressions, unstable SOME DEATHS CAN’T BE BURIED The use of aesthetics in this sense ensures that works of art and their ceremonious activities buttress the superiority of the alchemical power of the Thai state. Sethaseree’s Some Deaths Can’t Be Buried explores an interrelation between these concepts of aesthetics and totalitarianism. The significant forms of this interrelation mediate THE MULTIPLICITY OF TOTALITY IN 'NG ENG TENG: 1+1=1' An invitation into discovering the complexity that Ng’s works afford, Ng Eng Teng: 1+1=1 breathes new life into our previous conceptions of the artist’s works, complicating, tangling, and altogether unsteadying our fixed notions of the man himself—opening up to us a horizon of possibility. PAINTING PHOTOGRAPHS ANEW Relying on archival photographs of Chinese coolies, Singapore artist May Oon rendered her version of these photographs using oil and charcoal, presenting 14 new works that pay tribute to the unnamed immigrants who helped build Singapore in her latest solo REVIEW: “…ALWAYS MOVING” THE BATIK ART OF SARKASI SAID Sarkasi Said, “. Always Moving” (Light), 2000, resist dye on fabric, 255cm x 253 cm, collection of the artist. Light is another work that showcases the artist’s extraordinary talent for depicting the immaterial. While in a coal mine, Sarkasi was stimulated by the lack of light to imagine how its presence might alter the landscape;

by

THE MULTIPLICITY OF TOTALITY IN 'NG ENG TENG: 1+1=1' An invitation into discovering the complexity that Ng’s works afford, Ng Eng Teng: 1+1=1 breathes new life into our previous conceptions of the artist’s works, complicating, tangling, and altogether unsteadying our fixed notions of the man himself—opening up to us a horizon of possibility. HOW TO TALK ABOUT ART Art appreciation, on the other hand, is thankfully a lot simpler. Although contemporary art can be difficult to comprehend, art is always intended for an audience and there are ways to bridge that understanding. Here’s our guide to help deepen your art experience, or strike a conversation with a fellow event-goer. REVIEW: “…ALWAYS MOVING” THE BATIK ART OF SARKASI SAID Sarkasi Said, “. Always Moving” (Light), 2000, resist dye on fabric, 255cm x 253 cm, collection of the artist. Light is another work that showcases the artist’s extraordinary talent for depicting the immaterial. While in a coal mine, Sarkasi was stimulated by the lack of light to imagine how its presence might alter the landscape;

by

RE-MEMBERING

Too many episodes is a multi-layered exhibition. Just as all the featured exhibitions re-membered their constituents, this exhibition brings its constituents into a different configuration to generate new insights. This article, too, hopes that in its re-membering of the exhibition, that is has also created meanings of value. There are too

many

HOMING IN: THE STUDIO BEHIND SHIBUI FURNITURE COLLECTIVE Kim works with wood that he sources himself, designing and making them into furniture that strives for an understated, quiet beauty. It is no wonder that Kim chose the term Shibui — “simple, subtle, and unobtrusive beauty” in Japanese—for his collective. But craft requires space, and this is NOT JUST A HAPPY ENDING We all love a good underdog story—a humble man working his way up from nothing, overcoming trials, and eventually reaching great success. It hence comes with no surprise that Voice of a Karang Guni Man has received much attention online (Mothership, Razor TV) .. The artist behind the show, Mr. Tan Chong Bin was born in Singapore in 1952 and is a rag-and-bone man by profession. #PHOTOGRAPHERSONARTHOP: AN INTERVIEW WITH CHARMAINE POH Photo Credit: Charmaine Poh. Charmaine has documented the lives of different people as a photographer, from the LGBT community in Cambodia who do not have the rights to marry, to the female migrants from China who came to Singapore to seek work as domestic servants—the ma jies. During the interview, Charmaine shared an

anecdote with me.

FLOWERS FOR X: PATRICIA EUSTAQUIO AT YAVUZ GALLERY Flowers for X presents us with a slew of seemingly delicate and beautiful flowers, rendered in pale pink, grey, and black. They are printed on flowing silk, splayed across the white floor of the gallery, and painted on circular canvases that are hung up on walls. The flowers limp and droop: these are not, strictly speaking, images of fresh flowers, but flowers that have seen better days. 5 THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT GEORGETTE CHEN 5. In 2007, a musical about Georgette Chen’s life was staged at the Esplanade. Written by playwright Ng Yi-Sheng, a snippet of the musical, “Business Class” can be viewed here: One of the greatest challenges in learning more about an artist is the lack of resources to work with. In an interview with Channel NewsAsia, Rui En shared her ART GIANTS AT PLAY: AFTERTHOUGHTS ON ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH We recently wrote a review of Do Ho Suh: New Works which will be on show till 2 January 2016. Thereafter, Freely, Freely by Jane Lee will open on 17 January 2016.

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