The Pocket Arts Guide (Mar 2012)

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ContentsTPAG March 2012 / Issue 29

4 EDITOR’SLETTER

6 ART WIREGallery updates and events

32 FrontiersBeauty in the Remaking

36 PERSPECTIVESGhosts of the Lost Garden

40 SPACEFrom Architect’s Vision to ‘Vertical Slum’

47 MAPArt Galleries in Singapore

52 DIRECTORYLISTING

60 CLASSIFIED

1 1 IN ThE FRAMELearning to Fly

22 FEATuREArt in the Heart of Asia

18 ART LANDSCentre of Change

26 GLIMPSEWhere the Blood flows

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editor’s letter

Dear reaDers,The themes in the March 2012 issue of The Pocket Arts Guide (TPAG) may not be obvious but they connect in subtle ways. It proves that even with the global diversity of the art world at the moment, and the new art that appears to be rising out of nowhere in all corners of the world, it is still possible to find commonalities. This issue, in many ways, looks at how artists respond to their environments. Perspectives looks closely at the Ameri-can cityscape and the images of its anti-urbanist “realists” at the turn of the 20th century as well as the impact their images had on art forms such as cinema, and how this has continued into the 21st century. In the Frame this month is about the reflective work of Beijing artist Wu Qiong, whose childlike figures could easily be representatives of his gener-ation, in a China that seems to offer a very new and different experience, at least to some. Space rigorously analyses how Singapore successfully put the ideas of Japanese Metabolist art into practice decades ago, but the indifference of modern Singapore is making it fall into ruin. A friend of mine recently commented that the critical language of art and the interpretations given to individual art pieces are not intended by the artists. Writers, aficionados and critics read them into it. The artists themselves may agree with the interpretation at some point, if it helps others understand the work. I almost subscribe to this opinion, but I believe that even if there are no preset messages, the artwork is a response, either to something inside the writer, people, or the environment. And if it comes out subconsciously, it may just be a language that we are yet to fully comprehend.

Remo Notariannieditor-in-Chief

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Art DirectorMelvin [email protected]

ContributorsRudabah Abbass, Gladys Teo, Daniela Beltrani

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lluminations - A solo exhibi-tion by Aung Kyaw Htet15.02.12 — 11.03.12Chan Hampe Galleries @ Raffles Hotelwww.chanhampegalleries.comSingapore Chan Hampe Galleries is de-lighted to present Singapore audiences with an exceptional series of oil paintings from Bur-mese artist Aung Kyaw Htet in his solo exhibition Illuminations, which also coincides with the opening of his concurrent exhi-bition in Bangkok. Aung’s paint-ings have achieved the highest price at auction of any artist from Burma. Being a devout Buddhist who grew up in a small village, the philosophy has undoubtedly had a large influence on Aung’s artis-tic practice. This is seen through his exquisite balance of realism and sensitivity of subjects. Aung’s depictions of novice monks and nuns unleash ques-tions about the slippery social environment of Burma and the role of romanticism under such conditions. For more than a de-cade, Aung has quietly produced some of the most coherent, nu-anced, and resonant bodies of artworks from Burma.

Gerard Rancinan: Solo Exhibition09.03.12 — 25.03.12Opera Gallery Singapore at ION Orchardwww.operagallery.comSingapore

Gerard Rancinan burst onto the art scene, the world of photogra-phy and by many turns, the world of social critique with a uniquely powerful creative swing. His personal and professional jour-ney has not just progressed through the physical production of photography, but through his unique analysis of the heart and soul of mankind. Posted as one of the highest-ranking photographers in France in 2008, Rancinan is an already iconic, endlessly productive and superbly talented artist. His work now features in the most critical contemporary art collections in the world. Having earned a series of arts awards, personally in-volved in several communica-tion campaigns and many more enterprises besides, this artist is understandably in demand worldwide. Rancinan’s work is undeniably controversial yet simultaneously beautiful, earn-ing him immense respect and renown amongst his contempo-raries as well as his peers.

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Asia Pacific Breweries Foundation Signature Art Prize 2011 Finalists Exhibition11.11.11 — 04.03.12Singapore Art Museumwww.singaporeartmuseum.sgSingapore

The Asia Pacific Breweries (APB) Foundation Signature Art Prize is an award to recognise artists whose artworks repre-sent a significant development in contemporary visual art in the Asia Pacific region. Aimed at recognising the single most outstanding contemporary visu-al artwork produced in the pre-ceding three years, the award is open, by nomination, to all visual artworks, regardless of medium, subject matter and size. Now in its second instal-ment, the award reaches out to 24 countries and territories in the region, including Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Mongolia, the Oceania islands, the Phil-ippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and many others. From the 130 nominated artworks, 15 finalist artworks were selected and exhibited in SAM. The exhibition offers an ex-cellent opportunity to see and discover some of the most excit-ing contemporary art produced in this dynamic region in the last three years. An international jury will then convene to judge the exhibited finalist artworks and select the winning artworks.

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The Lure of Mekong23.02.12 — 18.03.12M Gallerywww.mgallery.com.sgSingapore

“The Lure of Mekong” is a joint exhibition featuring two distinct bodies of artwork that capture the allure of the Mekong region by artists Sivilay Souvannasing (Laos) and Songwoot Kaewvisit (Thailand). Sivilay applies his trademark approach of heavy layers of oil and complex juxtapositions of imagery, capturing scenes of marketplaces, festivals and the Hmong people, whilst Songwoot captures the glorious moments of harvest with his depiction of farmers amidst vast, golden fields of rice. This exhibition is the first in-stalment under the Mekong Col-lective Series 2012 by M Gal-lery which showcases creative talents from the Mekong region. This exhibition offers a close look at the region, its beauty and the spirit of its creativity and natural wonders.

Spirit of the Eagle 03.03.12 — 12.03.12.MAD Museum of Art And Designwww.madmad.com.sgSingapore

Zhang Ce was born in 1957 in Tieling, Liaoning, China. He is a Member of China Artists’ As-sociation, Director of Traditional Chinese Realistic Painting As-sociation, Liaoning Fine Arts Association Vice-chairman, Tiel-ing Painting Research Institute Dean, National Artist. Zhang, a free-spirited char-acter, was born into an artist’s family. A talented and innovative artist, he is no stranger to many provincial and national awards for his paintings since the age of 19. Zhang studied traditional techniques and draws on them but in his final artistic expression he never reproduces the ancient styles. Instead he builds from these techniques and evokes the folk spirit and expresses Western styles in his work. As a result of this, his imagery is vivid, elegant and refreshing. Zhang Ce found his passion in painting eagles and has been fondly called “the number one painter of the Eagle in modern China”.

ROOTS: A Visual Arts Exhi-bition on Cultural Heritage03.03.12 — 08.03.12.The Glass Hall, Singapore Art Museum (SAM)www.wix.com/2012roots/exhibi-tion Singapore ROOTS is a contemporary visual arts exhibition that explores the relevance of cultural heritage in relation to the rootedness of an individual to his/her homeland. It looks at it through contemporary eyes. The exhibition will feature a diverse selection of works by a group of contemporary visual artists who seek to highlight the rising concerns over the painful erosion of cultural heritage, a jarring result of a fledging na-tion’s rapid progression into the league of the First World. With overlapping themes on the gradual loss of one’s own traditions, muted stories of a buried history, and threats from the disarming face of urban de-velopment, Justin Lee, Gerson Gilrandy and many other artists are setting out to give heritage its voice back. The artists peel the veil of sterility that shroud so-ciety’s indifference, with abstrac-tions so deafening that it leaves the individual questioning: What is it that ‘roots’ us presently?

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Insight: A Solo Exhibition by Victor Tan29.02.12 — 03.03.12Lasalle College of Artswww.mylasalle.sgSingapore

Whereas Insight might be de-fined as the capacity to gain an accurate and deep intuitive un-derstanding of a person, In sight of is about being visible, near at hand or physically close to an object. This exhibition, curated by Dr Charles Merewether, pres-ents a series of sculptures made of wire by local artist Victor Tan. His wires take on human form, and explore existential ideas about humanity, the innocence of the human emotions in the moment, and the passage of time and life. The exhibition would help the public gain insight into the art-ist’s creative process. His sculp-tures taking on a human form in movements such as sleeping, climbing, running, flight – they come to life, evoking different ranges of emotions within each individual. Shadows come to play as well, creating a 2D image on the wall. “It begs the viewers now to ask, do we look at the 3D work or the 2D drawings on the wall?”

“Daixy Galasy” An exhibi-tion of paintings by local artists Dina Razak and Fyerool Darma02.03.12 — 09.03.12INSTINC SOHOwww.instinc.comSingapore

“Humans are like daisies; naive beings always in search of bet-ter things for our future, which here, is portrayed as the galaxy. Now, the priority changes to the self. We want to look good and be accepted by society and its idealistic approach to life. We are very hopeful, constant-ly longing for something. It is but impossible to neglect our per-sonal experience of being more or less human. We would like to celebrate the individualities that are reflected through our various approaches. “Daixy Galasy” showcases a personal need to run back to our period of innocence. We con-tinuously revert back to a place where we feel comfortable. We would like to depict the idea of looking back at our memory and childhood in our series of works. They will personally carry with them a certain atmosphere in which some elements will re-mind one of their childhoods, be it joyous or dull.”

Merapi: Beyond the Myths by Heri Dono from Indonesia22.02.12 — 10.03.12Alliance Francaise de Singa-pour Generale Private Banking Gallerywww.alliancefrancaise.org.sgSingapore

As part of A Week of Indonesian Culture in Singapore organised by the Alliance Française de Sin-gapour, SOCIETE GENERALE Private Banking Gallery is holding an exhibition. SOCIETE GEN-ERALE Private Banking Gallery is holding an exhibition entitled Merapi: Beyond the Myths by Heri Dono from Indonesia. This exhibition showcases around five installations made up of bricks, water tanks and sand as well as 40 drawings and 13 paintings revolving on the subject of the community and beliefs at the Merapi volca-nic region. Heri Dono is known through his installation that re-sults from his experiments with the most popular Javanese folk theater: wayang. In the wayang performance, a number of artistic and extra-artistic elements – visual arts, singing, music, storytelling, my-thology promotion of a philoso-phy of life, social criticisms, and humor - merge into a coherent unity to make a generic perfor-mance comprising complex ele-ments of multimedia.

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First ever solo exhibition in Singapore of works by Gretchen RyanOpening on March 2ndGalerie Stephwww.galeriesteph.comSingapore

Galerie Steph, together with Fred Torres Collaborations (New York), is proud to present the first Singapore exhibition of provocative Los Angeles‐based artist Gretchen Ryan. On view will be new paintings, charcoal drawings and photographs, many created exclusively for the Singapore exhibition. Born in Boulder, Colorado, Gretchen Ryan creates portraits of young girls—often beauty pageant contestants—that ex-plore disturbing notions of ob-jectification, precocious sexual-ity and innocence. Ryan forces us to question how Western parents raise their daughters in a disturbingly sexualized youth culture, and how we treat female sexuality and youth. Although Ryan’s work fo-cuses on the fetishized world of child beauty pageants, she approaches her canvas with a deep respect for her models and the use of traditional portraiture techniques. Gretchen’s portraits capture expressions of fear and dismay that traditional pageant imagery glosses over.

Revitalising the Glorious Tradition:The Retrospective Exhibition of Pan Tanshou’s Art25.12.11 – 02.05.12Hong Kong Museum of Artwww.lcsd.gov.hk/ce/Museum/Arts/english/exhibitions/exhibi-tions01_oct11_02.htmlHong Kong

Acclaimed by critics and art his-torians as one of the four giants of traditional painting, Pan Tian-shou (1897 – 1971) was a lead-ing exponent of modern Chi-nese art history. He developed a unique style which is character-ised by expressive brushwork, vigorous form, forceful composi-tion and monumental scale. Pan was an outstanding grad-uate of the Zhejiang Provincial First Normal College. He taught at a succession of art schools including the Shanghai College of Fine Arts, the Xinhua Art Col-lege, and the Hangzhou National College of Art. Selected from the Pan Tianshou Memorial Museum in Hangzhou, the exhibition features 36 works including landscape as well as flower and bird paintings and also calligraphy, accompanied by a number of valuable docu-ments. It is a look at the timeless and the historical.

Fukushima Anniversary Exhibition福島核災一周年展01.03.12— 14.03.12The Fringe Clubwww.hkfringe.com.hk/va_en.htmlHong Kong Three hundred and sixty-five days after the Fukushima nucle-ar crisis, as life goes on in Hong Kong, Japan is still striving to deal with the aftermath, which will probably last for the next few decades. In recent decades, the devastating effects of nuclear power have been evident. Nuclear energy is highly dan-gerous and the effect is long-term and far-reaching. From Chernobyl to Fukushima, it has been proven yet again how nu-clear energy can destroy a city and harm the generations that follow. This exhibition features photo documentation of Fukushima by award-winning Dutch pho-tographer Robert Knoth, and works by local artists Tsang Tak-ping, Kongkee, Blackpaper, Wong Wing-fung and Annabella Li, who use their creativity and imagination to consider the dis-tance between us and a nuclear future.

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Re-opening and celebration of nine years15.01.11— 30.03.12Gafferwww.gaffer.com.hkHong Kong

Re-opening and celebrating the start of nine years in Hong Kong with an exhibition of new works by six Melbourne artists – Si-mon Strong, Robert Doble, Ruth McCallum-Howell, Terri Brooks, Phil Stokes & Jane Hall. How-ell’s large cast glass pieces are inspired by the organic forma-tions found within nature. Brooks’ abstract oil paintings are her explorations and obser-vations of inner-city Melbourne and its weathered patina, flaking paint, rusted metal, marked & graffiti covered red bricked walls that line the cobble stoned lanes ways built in the gold rush days of 1880’s Melbourne CBD. Hall has been dedicated to-wards learning the old skills & tradition of Asian & Japanese printmaking through extensive travel and by being an artist in residence held in Japan, Italy, Nepal & Thailand. Hall repeats the process and overlapping blocks of ink are pressed leaving shades of built up single colour marking the handmade paper.

Spiritual Art by Sohan Qadri and Zhang Yu08.02.12 — 18.0312Sundaram Tagorewww.sundaramtagore.comHong Kong Sundaram Tagore Hong Kong brings together two artists noted for their deep spirituality for the first time: Chinese artist Zhang Yu, a pioneer of contemporary experimental ink painting, and Indian artist Sohan Qadri, who critic Donald Kuspit calls “...the pre-eminent aesthetic mystic of modernism.” The exhibition includes works from Zhang’s Fingerprint series and a number of the last works produced by Qadri, who died in early 2011. All works are on pa-per, the favorite medium of both artists. Zhang and Qadri are deeply influenced by Buddhism, and the very act of painting, for both, is part of a meditation. They both create abstract works that are in-tensely focused on the creative process and the embodiment of their philosophical and spiritual states of being.

Vicken Parsons: Paintings24.02.12 — 24.03.12Alan Cristea Gallerywww.alancristea.comLondon

In early 2012, the Alan Cris-tea Gallery will present the first solo show in London for over 12 years of the British born artist, Vicken Parsons. The show will consist of around 20 new works and will be ac-companied by a fully illustrated catalogue with an introduction by leading psychoanalyst and writer Darian Leader. Parsons makes small, inti-mate paintings of landscapes and architectural spaces which move from figuration to ab-straction with quiet ease. Made with thin layers of oil paint on thick plywood panel, the works have a three-dimensional, ob-ject-like quality. Often grey or monochrome, the paintings are sometimes hit with a flash of colour, of cornflower blue, bright white or electric yel-low which almost seems to fluo-resce. At times they retreat into deep dark corners.

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In The Frame

Learning to Fly

Chinese artist Wu Qiong’s Cartoon figures might herald a neW era in the nation’s art. But his fairytale visions express the sentiments of a generation in China that

seeks meaning Beyond material suCCess.

Text by Remo Notarianni

2008.1.2.3, 77 x 55 x 97 cm, stainless steel and stainless steel with titanium, 2008

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Wu Qiong’s subjects seem buoyantly afloat. The Bei-

jing-born artist depicts childlike figures against stark backgrounds and pastel skies. Their shameless optimism could resemble the grin-ning cynicism of the Pop Art that propelled contemporary Chinese talent onto the world stage. But unlike the Pop Cynical Re-alists of the Seventies and Eighties, Wu’s figures appear to lack the “po-litical stress release” of a time when government intervention defined “Pop” in China. Takashi Murakami and Andy Warhol, targeted soulless

consumerism, but it was the ubiqui-tous hand of Beijing lurking behind the product that concerned the likes of Yue Minjun; the same hand that inflicted suffering on its own people under Mao. Wu, however, was born in the 1980s. He would not remember Mao’s Cultural Revolution at a time when Deng Xiaopeng’s “Open Door” policies created growth so blindingly stellar it could cause po-litical amnesia — especially in the generations that followed. “Many of my figures appear to be defying gravity,” said Wu. “Their

In The Frame Learning to Fly

Classic no. 1, 2011, 150 x 110 cm, oil on canvas

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dreamy, death-defying awe relish the new opportunities. My genera-tion can enjoy these compared to previous ones in China. But look closely and you’ll see uncertainty on the faces that is as strong as any of the cynicism.” In the 80s and 90s, Mao’s totaliz-ing gaze still crossed the landscape but factories and billboards unfore-seen economic freedoms. And as the only child of parents working in the creative fields of advertising and design, Wu was socialised into art at a young age. After studying Western

Art at Xu Beihong Art Academy, he entered the Teacher’s Training University (Shi Fan Da Xue) to major in Oil Painting. In 2003, he went to Singapore to study at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts and developed his style in an overseas environment. It may be difficult to point a fin-ger at the agent of change in Chi-na—economic development and liberalisation— but it is too simple to describe Wu’s paintings as cel-ebrations. In fact, his style bears some resemblance to the “cartoon painting” of China’s Guangdong

Classic no. 2, 2011, 150 x 110 cm, oil on canvas

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province in the 1960s, which made a political standpoint against Bei-jing’s cultural hegemony. In 21st century China, Wu may just be resonating with the cartoon aesthetic of a younger generation absorbed by comic imagery, online gaming and computer worlds. It may seem relatively idyllic but as Wu points out: “the artists born of this generation have been accused of being part of a shallow culture, as though they should apologise for not having been born into the tur-moil and chaos that previous gen-erations suffered.” Indeed, no generation is without its hardships. Wu’s cartoon style is more developed in later works, but throughout there is a passionate or-thodox realism that speaks above the humour. His paintings between 2003 and 2006, revealed various emotional states of characters. Some were presented in agony such as in

In 21st century China, Wu may just be resonating with the cartoon aesthetic of a younger generation

absorbed by comic imagery, online gaming and computer worlds.

Essence of Performing no. 3, 2011, 160 x 130 cm, oil on canvas

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Hear Me Out (2008) which is a hysterical self-portrait of Wu sitting on all fours in a dark corner, with a spotlight on his gaping mouth, and with his eyes shut, as his left hand mimics a gun. “I remember playing barefoot, pretending to fly, believing that everything was possible,” said Wu. “Me and my playmates believed we were supermen who could do

anything, but life is not without its frustrations because that is how it is made.” But it is indeed the post-80s generation that is keeping the Chi-nese miracle alive and in an eco-nomic sense they were propelled into the skies by their parents. Wu’s frustrations can be found in any modern society – wanting to change his job as a college teach-er and wanting greater fulfilment

“The artists born of this generation have been accused of being part of a shallow culture.” – Wu Qiong

Lola & Lulu, 2011, 180 x 130 cm, oil on canvas

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with his work. His generation learned to fly, but they have had to come down to earth now that they have grown up. Some of Wu’s images allude to actual fairytales and stories from Chinese literature. In the painting Made in China 2 (2008), the chil-dren look like their growth has been stunted by an alternate reality that keeps them in a state of infancy. Their heads are enlarged and their

pants are down. It is almost saying they have been spoiled by the “eco-nomic miracle” and the brighter tones represent the clear light of day in adulthood. Wu returned to China from Singapore in 2008 after achieving artistic recognition, to find the na-tion’s commercial might cut into the landscape and the Olympic Games underway. The Sichuan earthquake came crashing down on his genera-

New Generation 2, 2008, 170 x 140 cm, oil on canvas

Wu returned to China from Singapore in 2008, after achieving artistic recognition, to find the nation’s commercial might cut into the landscape and the

Olympic Games underway.

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tion’s lofty sense of privilege. Had the childhood teddy bears of those who benefited from the new China morphed into Godzillas? It became clear that greatness in itself cannot dispel suffering, which is just part of the human condition. His latest body of work is more preoccupied with the cartoon form, and the subjects seem to bear no autobiographical resemblance. Perhaps Wu has outgrown the age

of fairytales. But even if they have ended, the truths they tell continue to be real. “For those who still claim that the generation of the 80s has nothing to say, think again!” said Wu. “We understand and embrace the world we are growing into.”

Wu Qiong is represented by Sunjin Galleries in Singapore. Contact: +65 6738 2317. Email: [email protected]

Made in China 2, 2008, 150 x 120 cm, oil on canvas

It became clear that greatness in itself cannot dispel suffering, which is just part of the human condition.

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London has always prided itself on a number of things – premier cos-

mopolitan city of the world, creative hub, and centre of European culture. With a thriving banking sector and strengths in the creative industries, all contributing to its prominence, London maintains its place as a de-sirable location for the wealthy. For most, acquiring property in the British capital is an obvious choice. Geographically it lies in close prox-imity to the United States and also provides a convenient base with easy access to Europe. And where there is money, there is the considered pen-chant for investing in art. London currently claims 58 percent of Eu-rope’s art market share and is also the main modern and contemporary fine art capital of the continent. “As an artist, I can’t imagine be-ing anywhere other than London,” said British artist Duggie Fields, who has lived in Earls Court since 1969. “London is the ultimate city. Part of its uniqueness for me is its mix of nature in the abundance of gardens, squares, parks, trees and plants in such close proximity to cur-rent cultural institutions, entertain-ment, architecture and history.”

CulTure and Crisis And on a global platform London currently maintains its place as the world’s second largest art market

– valued at £7.7bn.According to a recent study by Euromonitor Interna-tional, the city has defied the econom-ic downturn by being the most visited destination for tourists in 2011. The Tate Modern, British Museum and the National Gallery continue to hold their place in the list of top 10 most visited art museums in the world. However with the continual threat of economic instability and lack of confidence from credit rating agen-cies, there is talk that the English capital is beginning to lose its foot-ing. Emerging markets such as Chi-na, the Middle East and Hong Kong have been quick to take advantage of this and are already starting to claim their share of the pie. London’s art market is be-ing threatened by competing re-gions where tax free living and the expat lifestyle has meant people have more money to spend. Where the upper echelons of society would have usually travelled abroad to pur-chase art, they now turn to the local galleries where a new raw art scene is being born.

arT and upheavalPolitical uprisings in the Middle East have inspired a new legion of artists who have something fresh and new to express in their work. Art deal-ers and gallerists in London includ-ing White Cube have been quick to

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recognise this business opportunity and have expanded their businesses by opening branches in the Middle East and Asia. One such gallery owner is Anna Hunter who has recently expanded her Belgravia Gallery to Hong Kong. She tells me: “The UK is cer-tainly Europe’s art market leader. The concentration of all the major auction houses, the top European art galleries and museums make it a destination for the art buyer. Lon-don is a very attractive city to visit and for buyers of second” But she admits that an estimated 40 percent of her sales are to over-seas clients with a rising clientele from Asia. She has also noted that: “The appearance of more Rus-sians and Chinese living in London means that sales are rising to this group.” But what about the Russians and Chinese who do not live in London?

Their newly strengthened economy means people now have money and are looking to spend. Why travel for your investment when you can find something on your doorstep?

neW fronTiersHong Kong-based British artist Si-mon Birch tells me that: “Around 75 percent of my work goes to Western hands, American, British, German and French predominantly. The rest go to Hong Kong or mainland Chi-nese as well as South East Asia. The Asian buyers are slowly increasing noticeably.” I think the UK has always led the way in music and arts but the world is changing rapidly and old

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empires continue to fade as new ones emerge. The art world in particular, is perhaps now more polycentric than the West rea-lises. Cultural scenes are devel-oping at the far reaches of the globe, oblivious to the West.” Industry experts say the re-cent introduction of the droit de suite tax – enabling artists and their beneficiaries to profit from the resale of works - could also prove to be a deterrent for buyers. Galleries and auction houses ob-jected to the new levy claiming it would put London at a great disadvantage to cities like Hong Kong and New York - where no such tax exists. When I asked Anna how her clients reacted to the news of the tax and if they wanted to secure their acquisitions before the tax was introduced, she told me: “There was no perceptible rush

to buy to avoid the tax!”. While the current market dictates that buyers are unper-turbed by the recent changes, it is too soon to predict the long term impact. The argument for London’s position as Europe’s art capital remains untenable, but in the long term it is likely to lose some of its foreign cli-ents. With art markets abroad flourishing, it will certainly have to work harder to stay ahead of the competition. The combined prestige and heritage of the City’s galleries and auction houses will still draw in buyers due to its heritage and reliable reputation. However as long as art collecting remains a preserve of the rich, and the rich keep coming to London, its place as a dominant art hub will remain firmly cemented for the foresee-able future.

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Now iN its fifth year, hoNg KoNg iNterNatioNal art fair taKes place betweeN May 17 aNd 20. art hK 12’s outstaNdiNg exhibitor liNe-up will showcase

the very best iN coNteMporary art froM the world’s Most iMportaNt galleries.

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aRT HK has risen onto the world stage since it began in

2008. This year’s event is sponsored by Deutschebank and the total num-ber of galleries is 264, representing 37 territories. Every year the event grows and the total number of new participating galleries this year is 77. In 2011 the Fair received a re-cord number of visitors, with 63,511 attending, an increase of 38 percent from 2010. The Fair has grown into more than an art extravaganza. It has become internationally recogn-ised for its broad cross-cultural and intellectual exchange. It remains unique as the only world class art fair to have a 50/50 balance of Asian and Western galleries and it is hap-pening in the heart of Asia, making Hong Kong as important as other major art hubs. ART HK 12 will welcome 180 galleries from 30 different territo-ries in the Galleries Section. Lead-ing galleries returning to the venue from across Asia include Long March Space and The Pace Gal-lery from Beijing; Vitamin Creative

Space from Guangzhou; Ben Brown Fine Arts and Hanart TZ Gallery from Hong Kong; Anna Schwartz Gallery from Melbourne; Nature Morte / Bose Pacia from New Del-hi; Kukje Gallery and PKM Gallery from Seoul; Pearl Lam Galleries from Shanghai; Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery from Sydney; Eslite Gal-lery from Taipei and SCAI THE BATHHOUSE from Tokyo. New additions include de Sarthe Fine Art from Hong Kong, Koyanangi from Japan and three galleries from Mumbai: Gallery Chemould Prescott Road, Galerie Mirchan-dani + Steinruecke and Volte. The Fair will also host major in-ternational galleries, with the return of galleries from across Europe and the USA including the following from London: Sadie Coles HQ, Ste-

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phen Friedman Gallery, Hauser & Wirth, Simon Lee Gallery, Lisson Gallery, Sprüth Magers Berlin Lon-don, Timothy Taylor Gallery and White Cube. Other notable galleries include Acquavella Galleries Inc., Marianne Boesky Gallery, Galle-ria Massimo de Carlo, Leo Castelli Gallery, Cheim & Read, Gagosian Gallery, Gladstone Gallery, Mar-ian Goodman Gallery, Sean Kelly Gallery, L&M Arts, Galerie Em-manuel Perrotin and David Zwirn-er. Galleries new to the Fair include The Breeder from Athens; carlier | gebauer and Galerie Gebr. Leh-mann Dresden from Germany; Gal-eria Filomena Soares from Lisbon; Annely Juda Fine Art, Maureen Paley and Stuart Shave/Modern Art from London; XL Gallery from Moscow; Marlborough Gallery Inc and Michael Werner from New York; Galerie Nathalie Obadia and Galerie Daniel Templon from Paris; Casa Triângulo from Sao Paulo; Stevenson from South Africa; Gal-erie Karsten Greve Ag from Swit-zerland, among many others. ART HK 12 will also include ASIA ONE, a section which opened

in 2011. In this section, 49 galler-ies from across Asia will exhibit a solo presentation by an artist of Asian origin. ASIA ONE offers an international platform to Asian art-ists and their galleries and provides a unique opportunity for visitors to gain a comprehensive view of the Asian art scene. In keeping with the Fair’s encouragement of cross-cultural exchange, ART HK recent-ly announced the repositioning of ASIA ONE. Divided between level one and level three, ASIA ONE will be integrated further into the Fair, set alongside other prestigious gal-leries from Asia and the West. ART HK will further its role as a platform for cross-cultural ex-change by introducing a new initia-tive, offering to pair up interested

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galleries from the East and West, to share practical knowledge on conducting business as a gallery in their respective territories. This year ART FUTURES will ensure the inclusion of the high-est calibre of work. The section will present 35 of the world’s most exciting young galleries, showcas-ing work by emerging artists from around the globe, and once again in 2012, the ART FUTURES prize will be awarded to one artist featured in the section. While previously ART HK has required that galleries ex-hibiting in ART FUTURES were no more than five years old, for the 2012 Fair, galleries of up to eight years old and artists under 35 at the time of application are invited to participate. A reduced number of spaces for ART FUTURES at ART HK 12, together with a broader age range of galleries, places a strength-ened emphasis on quality. The ART FUTURES Prize 2011 was awarded to Gao Weigang, for his solo presen-tation at Magician Space, Beijing.

“We are delighted once again to welcome such a high calibre of art from around the world to ART HK 12,” explains Magnus Renfrew, Fair Director, ART HK. “It’s extremely exciting to see the Fair progress with the support of Deutsche Bank and it’s hugely promising that in its fifth year it continues to attract new participating galleries. ASIA ONE, which debuted at last year’s Fair, was very well-received, and we are pleased to be integrating this sec-tion further into the heart of the Fair in 2012. This section will showcase the exciting developments currently taking place in Asian art, alongside the most prestigious galleries from Asia and around the world. We hope to encourage as much collab-oration and cross-cultural exchange as possible, making ART HK 12 a platform for developing the audi-ence and market for contemporary art in Asia and providing a global audience an opportunity to discover and learn about contemporary art from the region.”

This year ART FUTURES will ensure the inclusion of the highest calibre of work.

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Where the Blood flowsText: Remo Notarianni and Manuel Müller

SwiSS artiSt Manuel Müller carveS viSually poetic SculptureS in wood and glaSS. HiS tHeMeS Straddle tHe priMitive, tHe Modern, life, deatH, Sex and rebirtH. SHaped by perSonal reflectionS, and tHe claSSic collectionS tHat influenced HiM, Müller’S unique

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some of my favourite pieces in my collection are mask of a

warthog from New Zealand made of early 20th century, painted wood; Some archaic Mesopota-mian fertility idols; some African Nok terracotta sculptures; a little goddess from India; and a painting by Alex Costa, a Greek-American artist whose works are in the col-lection of the “Musée de l’art brut” in Lausanne. But it is difficult to

describe these objects, other than with adjectives like “strong” or “unique”. In Switzerland or France, or Western Europe or the United States, the art scene looks very in-tellectual to me. It tends to question Art History over and over again, so it doesn’t interest me very much anymore. I don’t see where my work fits in. There is certainly no “box” I can see it being kept in.

Moi et Moi (wood, 2008, 43x55x44cm)

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I have drawn since I was a child. After being fired from high school at the age of 16, in the outskirts of Paris where I lived, my father al-lowed me to go to Carrara, Italy, where I learned to work on marble in a marvellous studio with sculp-tors from all over the world. It was there that I learned the Italian

proverb: “da dove esce il sangue entra il mestiere” (From where the blood flows, begins the skill). Then, back in Paris, following the advice of the assistant of sculptor Augustin Cardenas, I started to dis-cover wood, an ideal material for polychromatic sculpture. In 1982 I moved to Switzerland.

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My father was a famous sculptor, Robert Müller, and my mother was a painter and a jeweller. Their friends were artists living in Paris in the 1950s. Among them was Chi-nese artist Zao Wou-ki, who became my godfather. They were also collectors, of “ethnic” art, ancient art from all over the world, European sculptures from the Middle Ages, and 15th century woodcuts. So I kind of grew up in a museum, and these influenc-es must have left a deep impression on my infant mind. The only possible cubist link to my work could be explained by the fact that cubist artists themselves were influenced by African and Oceanic sculpture.

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I have been going to my studio every morning for 40 years, doing one sculpture after another, to avoid the black hole of “inspiration failure”. My preoccupations are eternal and ordinary: life, sex, death, and solitude. And you have to know that my work is “classified” by the local art specialists as being in the “outsider” category. My technique is also very traditional, and I work wood with goug-es, chisels and knives. I also work with glass, and draw on paper.

Figurative sculpture became less signifi-cant in Western Europe in the Seventies. Most galleries consider sculpture to be an art of the past. Creative craftsmanship between hand and brain appears to be de-spised these days, and the “idea” counts most; that explains the success of artists like Jeff Koons. There are no real teachers of sculpture in art schools anymore, only teachers of installation and video. When I want to converse with sculptors, I prefer to do so in my imagination with the creators of masterpieces of, for example, African art, among others.

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In Fondo ai boschi (wood, also exists in bronze, 2007, 100x45x30cm)

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From what I see in European gal-leries, Asian art has a global ap-peal these days. I would now like to discover the Asian art scene in Asia, certain to find strong personalities there. Asian has strongly influenced my work, of course Hokusai, and treasures of the past, that I discover at the “Musée Guimet” in Paris for in-stance. And, last but not least, the beauty of the Asian female face.

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Text: Daniela Beltrani

Beauty in the Remaking

Urban JUngle is the title of the second solo exhibition of singapore-based dUtch artist gonneke Verschoor. it explores the rebirth of obJects throUgh artistic reVitalisation that

UncoVers their beaUty within.

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Last year Gonneke Verschoor was granted a two-month residency

in 2012 by the Sculpture Square’s Artist-in-Residence Programme, which has finally culminated in the Urban Jungle exhibition, sched-uled to run from 10th to 26th March 2012 at the Gallery Block, Sculpture Square. Verschoor became a full-time artist in Holland back in 2000, when she started dedicating herself wholeheartedly to working with clay and the discarded metallic objects that she had chanced upon. These included bottle tops, nails, door cabinets, mattress frames, and store displays. The more deteriorated the object seemed, the greater its sense of abandonment, and the more the object appealed to Verschoor in its continuous renewal of rejection. In her revitalisation of the object, Verschoor wishes to breathe new life into it and to proclaim its beauty, beyond its previous utilitarian role. Her endeavour is a poetic confirma-tion of a scientific finding which was

pronounced so eloquently by the French scientist Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier in the 18th century: “Rien ne se perde, rien ne se crée, tout se tranforme,” “Nothing is destroyed, nothing is created, everything is transformed.” Verschoor’s creativity therefore unleashes itself in a paradoxical syn-thesis of two, essentially opposite, types of material: one readymade for the purpose of being manipulat-ed and brought to life (clay) and the other destined to forgetfulness and death. Transformation here is the key to the new life that Verschoor’s cre-ativity brings to both materials. On one side, moulding clay by hand al-lows her to explore the material in what she describes as “unexpected ways,” by responding to it in terms of techniques and shapes; and on the other, the imagination the metal-lic object offered would allow her to extrapolate and uncover its beauty from within. The two processes may be separated in the sense that there

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are significant gaps of time between Verschoor working with the clay and collecting metallic objects. Yet her artistic sensibility and the individuality that both types of ob-jects display combine to allow Ver-schoor to create the final works of art she is showing at the exhibition: a rusty mattress frame recovered just outside her Singapore home as an imaginary hedge for her porcelain “Urban Flowers;” a disused wheel-barrow containing porcelain moon cakes from her collection of moon cake moulds; a metal construction thread holding china plates in a di-abolo style suspended from the ceil-ing; cards displayed and presented as a chandelier of china bar codes. In her original proposal to Sculp-ture Square, Verschoor emphasized what has been her prime concern since becoming a full-time artist and adapted it to the new environment Singapore had disclosed to her in the last four years.

The Peranakan and Chinese motifs of the peony, the phoenix, and the Chinese double happiness character, together with the urban landscape of Singapore, seem to inform much of her paintings on the hundreds of china plates she had bought from a ‘china graveyard’ near her studio in Jalan Bahar, at a place called The Pottery Jungle. Verschoor is sympathetic to both household and construction materi-als, as they both serve their purpose in the building of a home. The mat-tress frame has as much of a past as the plates: both being so close to the story of a family, the sharing of imaginary intimate and convivial times. Verschoor transforms both types of material and renders them beau-tiful once again, encouraging mem-bers of the audience to see the same beauty, not only in the works she is presenting at the exhibition but also in the world around them.

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Moonlight (2012) Jack Massey

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Landscape paintings have a spe-cial place in the modern world—

rectangles of nature that bring a two dimensional slice of “Eden” into homes. At once decorative and criti-cally appreciated, landscape art, like the garden, has connected rural with modern. The work of Hokusai, Kuo Hsi or Friedrich enables us to appreci-ate a world we have supposedly won over, without actually experiencing its harsh realities. But this landscape has been in constant flux. At the turn of the twentieth cen-tury, artists became preoccupied with petrol stations, restaurants and urbanisation that made the cityscape as significant as the landscape, and these early images have become new muses for nostalgia. American artist Jack Massey’s paintings document late 20th and early 21st century life. Many seem to portray American archetypes that are already timelessly set in

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Fog City Diner (2011) Jack Massey

Lotte (2012) Jack Massey

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consciousness — the tough guy, the bar girl, and “the honcho” but Massey’s work oddly recalls a ru-ral tranquility with its stillness. He captures it in ordinary, rarely pho-tographed moments in places that have turned into the “third home” hangouts of city life. “The stillness pervades the hu-man figures and it somehow spiritu-ally bonds them with the architecture, which is calm and reflective,” said the San Francisco-based Massey, a fine artist who refined his craft as a tattooist and combines traditional work with digital. “But there’s a pal-pable energy in the settings that makes them as unique as the people and it is being lost in the proliferation of fast food and coffee chains.” Edward Hopper (1882- 1967) is credited with creating exemplary de-pictions of 20th century urban Amer-ica. In his often sombre portrayals, subjects seem isolated by their fa-miliar settings, and many saw his reflections to be part of a prevailing climate of criticism about modern life. It was for this reason that Hop-per was considered part of the anti-urbanism movement that included Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allen Poe and Frank Lloyd Wright. It han-kered for rural values that nurtured the human spirit but that had been sinking in the darkness of city life. Artists such as Hopper set the stage for the “Sin Cities” of Ameri-can literature and film that followed. In his work, the city had become a place of despair, where so-called paragons of civilisation had morally failed. The stillness of Hopper’s sub-

jects is strangely haunting. Perhaps an inspiration for “film noir”, the im-ages carry a storyline –or the aban-donment of characters in need of one. Hopper’s seminal work Night-hawks (1942) conveys this anti-ur-banism with public figures that seem downtrodden, lost and alienated by the familiar city they have found suc-cess in. “I’ve always been interested in approaching a big city by train,” Hopper once said, “and I can’t ex-actly describe the sensations. But they’re entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics. There is a certain fear and anxiety, and a great visual interest in the things that one sees coming into the city.” But “the diners”, cobbled streets, classic brownstones, railroads and art déco facias have yielded to a new modernity and it is starting to give Hopper’s world an endearing place in heritage. Many of the buildings that appeared in America’s early cit-ies are now the obsession of conser-vationists. Perhaps the grim subjects of Hopper’s time were closer to the garden of landscape art than they thought. “There may come a time when the identity of cities dissolves into the same desperate anomie of its people,” said Massey. “If the sense of place that a city provides is lost, then its inhabitants will lose hope with it.”

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From Architect’s Vision to ‘Vertical Slum’

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During a snowy Christmas in To-kyo, I chanced upon the world’s

first exhibition on the Metabolist Movement at the Mori Art Museum. Metabolism was one of the most im-portant architectural, artistic and phil-osophical movements of the twentieth century and it redefined architecture as “how people use and interact with the space around them”. Using both utopian and humanist concepts of urban living, the Metabolists were, in part, a response to rapidly exploding population in Japan in the late twenti-eth century. City plans were based on “megastructures” that were expand-able and mobile; they consisted of smaller, detachable sections within a larger, more permanent structure. But with the exception of the iconic Nakagin Tower by Kisho Kurokawa, which surfaced as the first “inter-changeable capsule” building in the world, Metabolist architecture hardly materialised at all in Japan. The move-ment morphed into companies con-cerned with mass housing and prefab-ricated steel and concrete systems. Outside Japan, however, its influence spread as far as Hawaii, the USA, Peru, and Macedonia. In Singapore, the movement spawned a group of architects who produced wonderful collections of buildings in the 1970s such as the

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People’s Park Complex, the Gold-en Mile Complex, and Pearl Bank Apartments. These buildings were architectural trailblazers in their own right, but are faced with the threat of demolition. Some have already been bulldozed to make way for more profitable developments.

ShADowS of A GolDen AGeThe Golden Mile Complex was de-signed by William Lim, Gan Eng Oon and Tay Kheng Soon of Design Partnership (now known as DP Ar-chitects) and completed in 1973. Envisioned as a mixed development high-rise, the 16-storey building was one of the first in the region to inte-grate over 410 shops, 68 residen-tial units and 226 offices into one building. The stepped-back terrace design enhanced natural ventilation and reduced noise from surround-ing areas and the planning focus was on housing horizontal commu-nities vertically. Once hailed as an exemplary Metabolist “megastruc-

ture” the Golden Mile Complex is a shadow of its former glory. Over the years, fires and vio-lent incidents have ruined the im-age of the Golden Mile. Younger generations, unappreciative of the architectural discourse of the build-ing call it an “eyesore”. Nominated Member of Parliament Ivan Png called it a “vertical slum”, critical of the way some residents put up zinc sheets and patched boards over their balconies. Many locals have bemoaned the opening of Thai dis-cos in the complex and others have opined that the toilets were among the dirtiest in the island state. Prop-erty owners of the Beach Road icon which now appears decrepit and rundown are eager for its demolition, having failed twice to get a collec-tive agreement to sell the property which is sitting on prime real estate. The New Paper ran an article head-lined “Man caught in gloryhole sex act” in June 2010, about a 30-year-old man who was caught engaging in a sex act with another man in a toilet cubicle on the second level of the complex.

RAiSinG The ‘TABulA RASA’Singapore has not one, but several of these iconic buildings. Yet these are largely unappreciated and are

Once hailed as an exemplary Metabolist “megastructure” the

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victims of material en-bloc sale at-tempts. These buildings were built according to ideals of pursuing dynamic growth, yet are now pres-sured to be taken down on the pre-text of pursing exactly that. Is this irony at its best or are we really inept at balancing history with economic progress? I was subsequently re-lieved to read that enough Singa-poreans, when polled by the Straits Times, wished to see the conserva-tion of Golden Mile Complex. How-ever, is this enough to block fierce sale attempts of the site, given the way that property prices are at a sustained high in a land-scarce country? Are these select voices enough to compel the authorities to warrant a conservation status on the building? After all, Singapore was pro-pelled onto the stage of interna-tional architectural discourse with Rem Koolhaas’s provocative essay “Singapore Songlines: Portrait of a Potemkin Metropolis…or Thirty

Years of Tabula Rasa”, published in 1995. The essay was a scath-ing critique of Singapore’s brutal approach towards urban renewal. post-1965, in which entire “villages” had been ruthlessly eradicated in the name of economic survival, to be replaced by a soulless, manu-factured skyline that was dominated by an endless landscape of identical concrete housing blocks. In its de-termination to rebuild the city in the shortest time possible from a sleepy backwater island into a world-class city, the nation was literally uproot-ed, and its residents herded into concrete boxed flat units.

ComPReSSion AnD ConSumeRSThe dystopic reality of a “Potemkin metropolis” where the city appears elaborate and impressive but lacks real substance seems to hold true for Singapore, as it did many years ago. I spoke to Philipp Aldrup, a photographer based in Singapore,

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on his views. Philipp’s work con-templates the co-existence of old and new, and explores how city-scapes change their meanings and functions as ways of life are altered by modern imperatives. “Singapore, in my opinion, is largely following a very different concept of growth – a growth of economics,” he observes. “Less and less spaces are left un-designed or rather open for resi-dents to alter, extend, and change. One is faced with completed de-velopments that don’t allow further experiments of use. One is reduced to being a consumer, be it for living, working, entertainment.” Some hold the perception that Singapore really is a metabolised city with multiple “city centres” in different neighbourhoods, and with

everything linked together by el-evated train systems and highways. Megastructures such as shopping malls have different services in one building, from offices to retail and food to indoor sports venues. Aldrup disagreed: “I think that Singapore, at least for many of the new develop-ments, doesn’t really embody the ideals of metabolism. On the sur-face, of course every city flows like streams and currents. But if growth means aggressively erasing his-tory on one side and creating new generic, non-local, non-culturally connected architecture on the other, then the city is slowly losing its func-tion as a home for people. I think that’s happening at the moment, not only in Singapore of course, but here it is so apparent and compressed.”

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Esplanade & Marina Bay Sands

1 iPreciation, The Fullerton Hotel

2 Utterly Art

3 Galerie Sogan & Art

4 Indigo Blue Art

5 Cham Hampe Galleries @

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6 DreamSpace Art Studio

7 Art Commune Gallery

8 Galerie Belvedere

9 Galerie Steph

10 Ikkan Art International

11 ReDot Fine Art Gallery

12 Valentine Willie Fine Art

13 Richard Koh Fine Art

1 The Substation

2 Art Plural Gallery

3 Art Trove

4 Yavuz Fine Art

5 The Private Museum

6 M Gallery

7 Forest Rain Gallery

8 The Gallery of Gnani Arts

9 Sculpture Square

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12 Yisulang Art Gallery

1 Ode To Art

2 Opera Gallery

3 Art Science Museum

4 The Asian Civilisation

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6 Gallery NaWei

7 Ode To Art

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9 Cape Of Good Hope

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16 Artfolio

GALLERY SPOTTED LegendArt Trove Gallery 51 Waterloo Street #02-01/2/3Singapore 187969

T: +65 6336 0915 F: +65 6336 9975

E: [email protected] W: www.art-trove.com

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1 Sunjin Galleries

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3 Bruno Gallery

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5 HaKaren Art Gallery

6 ZiJuan Art Gallery

7 Mulan Gallery

8 Yang Gallery

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51, Waterloo Street, #02-01/02/03, Singapore 187969Operation hours: Wed - Sun: 11am to 6:30pm. All other times by appointment.

Call for private viewing, tel: +65 6336 0915 or fax: +65 6336 9975email: [email protected] | website: ww.art-trove.com

Henri Matisse

Alberto GiacomettiFernand Leger

Pablo Picasso

art directories52 Singapore Galleries 53 Art Auctioneers 54 Museums / Art Services 54 Conservation/Restoration 54/55 Art Schools / Artist Studios 56 Hong Kong Galleries 56 Other International Galleries 56 Art Fairs 58 TPAG Art Tours HK 60 TPAG Classifieds

Singapore Galleries

Art Trove51 Waterloo Street, #02-01, Singapore 187969v +65 6336 0915Y [email protected] - Sun: 11am-6.30pm

ARTXCHANGE Gallery6 Eu Tong Sen Street, #02-65, The Central, Singapore 059817v +65 9027 3997Y [email protected] - Sat: 11am-9pm

Boon’s Pottery91 Tanglin Road, #01-02A, Tanglin Place, Singapore 247918v +65 6836 3978www.boonspottery.comDaily: 11am-6pm. Closed on Public Holidays

Forest Rain Gallery261 Waterloo Street, #02-43/44, Singapore 180261v +65 6336 0926Y [email protected] - Fri: 11am-7pm; Sat - Sun: 11am-5pm.

The Gallery of Gnani Arts#01-17, Tanglin Shopping Centre, 19 Tanglin Road Singapore 247909v +65 6735 3550Y [email protected] - Sat: 10am-7pm; Sun: 10am-6pm.

Indigo Blue Art33 Neil Road, Singapore 088820v +65 6372 1719/38Y [email protected] - Sat: 11am-6pm

Ken Crystals6 Eu Tong Sen Street, #03-72, The Central, Singapore 059817v +65 6339 0008Y [email protected] - Sat: 11am-7pm; Sun: 1pm-5pm.

Bruno Gallery91 Tanglin Road, #01-03 Tanglin Place, Singapore 247918v +65 6733 0283Y [email protected]: Tue - Fri: 10am-7pmWeekend: Sat & Sun 11am-8pmClosed on Monday

Cape of Good Hope Art Gallery140 Hill Street, #01-06, MICA Building, Singapore 179369v +65 6733 3822Y capeofgood [email protected]: 11am-7pm

Chan Hampe Galleries @ Raffles Hotel328 North Bridge Road,#01-04, Raffles Hotel Arcade, Singapore 188719v +65 6338 1962www.chanhampegalleries.comDaily: 11am-7pm. Closed on Public Holidays

Chan Hampe Galleries @ Tanjong Pagar27 Kreta Ayer Road,Singapore 088994v +65 6222 1667www.chanhampegalleries.comWeekdays: 10am-6pm. Weekends: 11am-4pm. Closed Wednesday and Public Holidays

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Muse The Art Gallery4 Toh Tuck Links, Unit 01 – 01 Singapore 596226v +65 6762 6617Y [email protected] - Fri: 8.30am-5.30pm

OVAS Art Gallery9 Penang Road, #02-21 Park Mall, Singapore 238459v +65 6337 3932www.ovas-home.comDaily: 11.30am-8.30pm

Richard Koh Fine Art71 Duxton Road, Singapore 089530v +65 6221 1209Y [email protected] - Fri: 11.30am-7pm,Sat: 12noon - 6pmMon by appointment only. Closed on Public Holidays

Galerie Sogan & Art33B Mosque Street,Singapore 059511v +65 6225 7686Y [email protected] - Sat: 12noon-7.30pm; Sun: 2pm-5pm

Utterly Art229A South Bridge Road, Singapore 058778v +65 6226 2605Y [email protected] - Sat: 11.30am-8pm;Sun: 12noon-5.30pm

Yisulang Art Gallery6 Handy Road, #01-01,The Luxe, Singapore 229234v +65 6337 6810Y [email protected]://yisulang.comTue - Sun: 11am-7pm

Art Auctioneers

Christie’s Hong Kong Limited22/F, Alexandra House,18 Chater Road, Central,Hong Kong

Sotheby’s Singapore Pte Ltd1 Cuscaden RoadRegent Hotel Singapore, Singapore 249715

Larasati30 Bideford Road #03-02,Thong Sia Building,Singapore 229922

ZiJuan Art Gallery19 Tanglin Road, #02–07 Tanglin Shopping Centre, Singapore 247909v +65 6733 0289HP: +65 8160 0058Y [email protected] - Sat: 11am-6.30pmClosed on Sunday

Sunjin GalleriesHolland Village: 43 Jalan Merah Saga, #03-62, Work Loft @ Chip Bee, Singapore 278115Shenton Way: 2 Mistri Road, #01-02, Lumiere, Singapore 079624v +65 6738 2317Y [email protected] - Fri: 11am-7pm; Sat: 11am-6pm

Established in 2000, Sunjin has built a strong reputation representing some of the leading and most sought after artist in the region. The Gallery has also actively identified and promoted new talents, introducing new and exciting names for the art buying public to invest in. Recently, at the 11th Beijing International Art Exhibition in 2008, the gallery was awarded by the Ministry of Culture PRC a certificate recognising the gallery as one of the “Top 10th most influential galleries of 2008”.

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Museums

The Luxe Art Museum6 Handy Road, #02-01, The Luxe, Singapore 229234v +65 6338 2234Y [email protected] - Sun: 11am-7pm

Singapore Art Museum71 Bras Basah RoadSAM at 8Q8 Queen Street

National University of Singapore Museum (NUS)University Cultural Centre, 50 Kent Ridge Crescent, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119279.

Art Services

Florenz10 Changi South Street 1, Singapore 486788v (65) 65464133Y [email protected] 8.30am-5.45pm,Fri 8.30am-5.30pm,Sat 8.30am-12.30pmClosed on Sundays

Introduction of Company: Florenz was first established in 1986 and was recently re-launched with a showcase exhibition featuring artworks by the current in house team and also past collaborators. Florenz specialises in glass art of all disciplines and processes ranging from traditional stained glass, blown work, kiln forming, sandcarving and engraving. Artworks may be purchased or commissioned for commercial and private settings. Florenz is also an active participant in the Singapore art scene, participating in events such as Art Singapore, Affordable Arts and FLasia.

PIA Preserve in Aesthetics63 HillView Avenue, #02-06B, Lam Soon Industrial Building, Singapore 669569v +65 6760 2602 /+65 9118 7478Y [email protected]

www.thepiastudio.com

Specialised in Paper & Book Con-servation. Art Preservation, Con-servation and Restoration.

Art Schools

LASALLE1 McNally Street

Nanyang Academy ofFine Arts38/80/151 Bencoolen St

The Singapore Tyler Print Institute41 Robertson Quay

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Conservation / Restoration

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m’a ARTSv +65 8611 5280Y [email protected] & Installation of Art Works and other Art related services.

Ray’s Transport & Servicesv +65 9152 2511Y [email protected] Installation& Delivery Services.

Santa Fe Art Solutionsv +65 6398 8518M: 9758 8294Y [email protected] services exclusive to the Arts: Art Collection Management, Affordable Art Storage, Exhibition & Project Management and Art Movement & Installation.

Urich Lau Wai-YuenGoodman Arts Centre90 Goodman Road, Block B #04-07, Singapore 439053v +65 9682 7214Y [email protected] appointment only

Jennifer Yao LinGoodman Arts Centre90 Goodman Road Block B, #03-14, Singapore 439053v +65 9151 3227Y [email protected] appointment only.

Artist Studios

Chieu Sheuy Fook StudioStudio 102, 91 Lorong J, Telok Kurau Road, Singapore 425985v +65 9669 0589Y [email protected]

Koeh Sia Yong 许锡勇10 Kampong Eunos, Singapore 417774v +65 9671 2940Y [email protected]/koehsiayongwww.koehsiayong.artfederations.com

Leo Hee Tong 梁其栋Blk173 Bishan St 13 #05-105 Singapore 570173v +65-62588787 / +65 97946511Y [email protected] 404, 91 Lorong J Telok Kurau Road Singapore 425985

Liu Xuanqi Art Studio 刘轩齐Goodman Arts Centre, 90 Goodman Road, Block B #0408,Singapore 439053v +65 9168 7785Y [email protected] daily 9am-6pm

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Hong Kong Galleries

Puerta RojaPrivate Latin Art Space Shop A,. G/F Wai Yue Building,15 – 17 New Street, Sheung Wan, Hong Kongv +852 2803 0332Y [email protected] appointment

Belgravia Gallery12/F Silver Fortune Plaza,1 Wellington Street, Central, Hong Kong

Karin Weber GalleryG/F, 20 Aberdeen Street Central, Hong Kong (Close to Hollywood Road)

Koru Contemporary ArtHing Wai Centre, 7 Tin Wan Praya Road, Aberdeen, Hong Kong

Art Fairs

Art Dubai21 – 24 March 2012www.artdubai.ae

Art Revolution Taipei22 – 25 March 2012www.arts.org.tw

China International Gallery Exposition (CIGE)April 2012www.cige-bj.com

Hong Kong International Art Fair (ART HK)17 – 20 May 2012www.hongkongartfair.com

Spoon Art Fair HK1218 – 20 May 2012www.spoonartfair.com

Asia Top Gallery Hotel Art Fair (AHAF SEOUL)24 – 26 August 2012www.hotelartfair.kr

International

Flo Peters GalleryChilehaus C, Pumpen 8, 20095 Hamburg, Germanyv +49 40 3037 4686Y [email protected]

GALERIE CHRISTIAN LETHERTAntwerpener Strasse 4D - 50672 Köln (Cologne) Germany

Alan Cristea Gallery31 & 34 Cork Street,London W1S 3NU

White Cube48 Hoxton Square,London N1 6PB

L & M Arts45 East 78 StreetNew York 10075

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1 Simone Boon’s StudioUnit17, 9/F, block B,

Wah Luen Industrial Centre,15-21 Wong Chuk Yeung Street, Fotan, NT.新界火炭黄竹洋街15-21 号华联工业中心B座9楼17室www.simoneboon.comY [email protected] 852-60120363

2 Belgravia Gallery,Hong Kong

19th Floor, Silver Fortune Plaza1 Wellington Street, Central中环威灵顿街1号荊威广场19楼 www.belgraviagallery.comY [email protected] 852 -9222 7315Viewings by appointment only.請預約參觀

3 Hong Kong Heritage Museum香港文化博物館

1 Man Lam Road, Shatin, NT新界沙田文林路1号www.heritagemuseum.gov.hkv 852-21808188

4 Hong Kong Museum of Art香港艺术馆10 Salisbury Road,

Tsim Sha Tsui, KLN 九龙尖沙咀梳士巴利道10号 www.hk.art.museum v 852-27210116

11 Puerta RojaShop A, G/F Wai Yue Build-

ing, 15-17 New Street, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong 上環新街15-17號偉裕樓地下A號鋪Y [email protected] (852) 9729 1773

12 Gaffer Ltd6-8 17th floor Hing Wai

Centre, 7 Tin Wan Praya Road, Aberdeen, Hong Kong香港仔田灣海旁道7號興偉中心17樓6-8號 www.gaffer.com.hk • [email protected] (852) 2521 1770

5 Hong Kong Cultural Centre香港艺术中心

10 Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, KLN 九龙尖沙咀梳士巴利道10号 www.icsd.gov.hk/CE/CulturalSer-vice/HKCCv 852-27342009

6 Hong Kong Arts Centre香港藝術中心2 Harbour Road,

Wan Chai, HK 香港湾仔港湾道2号www.hkac.org.hkv 852-25820200

7 Fringe Club 艺穗会2 Lower Albert Road, central,

HK 香港中环下亚厘毕道2号www.hkfringeclub.comv 852-25217251

8 Flagstaff House Museum of Tea Ware 茶具文物馆

10 Cotton Tree Drive, Central, HK香港中区红棉路10号www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/Museum/v 852-28690690

9 Swire Island East太古港岛东艺游

18 Westlands Road, Island East, Hong Kong 香港港岛东华兰路18号港岛东www.swireproperties.comv 852- 28445095

10 Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre 赛马会创意艺术中心

30 Pak Tin Street, Shek Kip Mei, KLN, HK 九龙石硤尾白田街30号 www.hku.edu.hk/jccacv 852-23531311

Please join us and email to [email protected] to sign up the Hong Kong Art Tours.

Blue City by A. Eugene Kohn, 30.5 x 23 cm

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