ART STAGE SINGAPORE 2011 (personal account)
Note: I've loaded more pix. It was 2am when I did the initial blog/upload, and a bit of work to recompress/resize but hopefully you guys like it. Drop me a note if you want specifics on anything. I made some notes...Cheers,
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I thought I'd bring to the community the first big art event for Singapore (and I believe) for the region: Art Stage Singapore 2011. Lorenz Rudolf, former director of ArtBasel, was able to assemble a stellar list of galleries from all over the world. They brought with them works of Picasso, Botero, Miro, Kusama, Murakami, LaChapelle and a few hundred more artists. This event comes after two major art events in Singapore last year: ArtSingapore and Affordable Art Fair. I thought it was going to be another one of those but, under the gleaming and iconic Marina Bay Sands shadow, Art Stage Singapore brought the polish and spotlight to this little country as it tries to slug it out with other Asia Pacific cities to be the 'it' art hub.
Anyways, here are some (won't dare upload my 200+ photos and tonnes of videos :) pieces that I thought you guys might find interesting. So, reporting from... (~shut up me).
Yes, that's a Seurat - Cans Seurat by Chris Jordan. Medium: Photograph, Archival pigmented inkjet face-mounted on plexiglass 60x92" 2007 Depicts 106,000 aluminum cans, the numbers used the US every thirty seconds.
Artist Ran Wang. Not much details, save for the artist's name. Give's the scale of the piece and the intricacy with pinned plastic on board. Will research some more....
Ahh. this one took my breath away..The booth of Purple Roof Art Gallery (from Shanghai) feature Liu Zhaoguan's
World of Thousands" where he assembled hundred of bottles with unique painted objects.
These are altered books (NY telephone book, chinese books, paperbacks) by Chen Long Bin.
A personal favorite... Filipino artist, Norberto Roldan, represented by taksu gallery, showed several works described as "assemblage with collage, old sepia photographs, assorted bottles and found objects. I have a few more photographs of his works so send me a PM if you want me to send over. I think our office has three of his most recent works... (save for a another blog).
As you guys can understand, there were several wonderful options to choose from. But I chose to show these based on overall theme of our community. I noticed that there were many multimedia/ video/ sonic art in display. Photography (or many of its variants) are coming in very strong as evidenced by the 'star'/ pull factor of golden boy LaChapelle. Checkbooks were out... last I heard, a Takashi Murakami triptych sold for US2.2M.
Below are other art works that caught my attention..(not captioning anymore, just enjoy or wince.. depending on your poison).. =D This where I added new (bigger dimensions) pix still web friendly.
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Comment by Darwin Sy Antipolo on January 18, 2011 at 3:21pm -
dunno what happened there... last few sentences should read.
i promise to make it worth the trip with yours truly as a personal tour guide of this tiny (my adopted) country-state. the food is great too and i've got that covered.
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Comment by Darwin Sy Antipolo on January 18, 2011 at 3:16pm
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ei greg... not at all. pleasure all mine really.
1st time ever, and i think it'll be a staple for Singapore. i'll give you/LMM community a heads up when the next one comes up. a friend/classmate worked with the origanisers so got free tix to the fair and invites to the fringe events/shows, which are also great.i'll try and load it up in flickr over the weekend. dare not load some more, lest i get a note from gary/ administrators...
i hear you on the 12-18 hrs trip from the US.
i promise to make it worth the trip with yours truly as a personal...
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Comment by Greg Hanson on January 18, 2011 at 2:46am -
Wow...VERY impressive...I'm going to look into going to this show next year! I went to Miami Beach Art Basel in early December, and was highly impressed and motivated by everything that I saw. I'd say a trip to Singapore might be in order (even though I'm not too excited about sitting all those hours in a tiny, cramped plane seat, yikes) Thanks for sharing this!
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Comment by Darwin Sy Antipolo on January 17, 2011 at 9:57am
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no worries bev. there were lots of talent, skills on display indeed. worth the weekend and sharing with you guys. cheers
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Comment by Darwin Sy Antipolo on January 16, 2011 at 1:14pm
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sandra... tiring but definitely refreshing to see different genre.
diana... will do, loater in the day. yep, thats hitler all right - and pregnant, with a child and with anne frank. this series i will upload. painted in rennaisance style but the subject/idea, well... you'll just have to see 'em.
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Comment by Diana on January 16, 2011 at 4:32am -
Very cool and i'd love to see some more pix (You can prob let us see bigger pix with lower resolution and it'll be fine) -- is that HITLER on the wall?
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Comment by Sandra Henderson on January 16, 2011 at 3:50am -
What a wonderful experience it must have been to see this event Darwin! I am more than a little bit jealous :)
Thank you so much for sharing this.
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