Posted by Wai Lin Coultas on Thursday, August 29, 2013
Three Singapore-based Australian artists have merged their different forms of art in a journey of exploration and redefinition of the notions of colour. Abstract artist Robyn Saurine, photographer Gordon Carlyle, and singer-songwriter Peter Fogarty is currently…
Posted by Wai Lin Coultas on Friday, August 16, 2013
One of China’s leading contemporary artist, Ai Wei Wei will be holding his first solo exhibition in Singapore, with a sole focus on the Chinese milk formula scare that had gripped his whole nation in 2008….
Posted by Wai Lin Coultas on Friday, August 16, 2013
Rarely viewed beautiful and iconic art by Renaissance, Flemish, Baroque, Neo-classical, Biedermeier and other renowned European masters; including Raphael, Brueghel, Hals, Rubens, van Dyck and Lukas Cranach the Elder are currently on display at the National…
Posted by Wai Lin Coultas on Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Chun Kwang Young is fond of saying, “I think the thing I saw first (as a child) was my mother’s face, and then there was mulberry paper. This paper is not just for writing and drawing,…
Posted by Wai Lin Coultas on Thursday, July 18, 2013
The universal theme of travel inspires French artist Bruno Catalano in ways that his body of artworks continually acquires an expressivity and finesse. At the same time, his bronze sculptured “Travelers” look highly unconventional – they…
Posted by Wai Lin Coultas on Thursday, July 11, 2013
Lee Gil-Rae has always been fascinated with nature. And in the early years of this millenium, he has translated his appreciation of the original form into his highly popular fruits and vegetables – capturing their essence…
Posted by Wai Lin Coultas on Thursday, July 4, 2013
For the first time in Singapore, we can soul-searchingly look at the Middle East and the world at large through the lens of internationally renown artists with roots in the global Arabic community. The Singapore Art…
Posted by Wai Lin Coultas on Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Valerie Guotard Andrianoff, or Val, sets about shaping each new piece of sculpture instinctively, meditatively listening to a symphony of internal music. And it is ‘only later that (she) can rationalize what it means and how…
Posted by Wai Lin Coultas on Sunday, June 23, 2013
Picasso had repeatedly said that “it is not sufficient to know an artist’s works – it is also necessary to know when he did them, why, how, under what circumstances… I want to leave to posterity…
Posted by Wai Lin Coultas on Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Contentious issues that grip most Singaporeans’ very hearts, minds, soul and conscience radiated heavily from most of the art works the Singapore Art Museum (SAM) commissioned for this year’s President’s Young Talents (PYT) exhibition. One hot…