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20 IN THE FRAME

16 EVENT

42 ART LANDS

48 STORY

52 PERSPECTIVES

28 FEATURE

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2010

Duggie Fields: Look Between the Lines.

ART STAGE: The Search for the Contemporary

TEFAF — Family Gatherings Bey Logan — Tale Bonding

The Fontanian — Industrial Action

Sally Harrison — Reconnecting the Dots

Shaanxi > Hong Kong

62 DIRECTORY & LISTINGSSingapore Art GalleriesOther ListingsTourist SpotsMalaysia Art GalleriesHong Kong Art GalleriesLondon Art Galleries

MORNING, DAY, EVENING 10

The Narrator, Protagonist & The Other 10

Konstantin Bessmertny: Clandestinum 11

Melting Memories 11

MAT/RAMLEE — A solo exhibition by Khairuddin Hori 12

Thaweesak Srithongdee:LOOP 12

A Solo Exhibition by Angki Purbandono: TOP POP 13

Pretty Grotesque 13

Notes in Idolatry 14

Circus: The Greatest Show on Earth 14

Beyond Perspective 15

Paresh Maity’s Journeys 15

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On the Cover Duggie Fields, Madonna and Heart, digital canvas, 175cm x 130cm (British Heart Foundation Appeal 2010/11)

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Dear Readers,

Welcome to the March 2011 issue of The Pocket Arts Guide (TPAG), a publication that explores the breadth of the art world. It is exactly that which makes TPAG special to me. This A5 guide offers coverage that is in-depth, while remaining concise and easy-to-read. The intentions are clear from its name, and our writers are faced with the challenge of summing up an art world that that seems to be infinitely breaking new ground. It is with this in mind that The Pocket Arts Guide connects artists, collectors, gallery owners and lovers of the arts everywhere at every level.

It is difficult to keep track of something that is growing with the power of creativity, something that is by definition boundless. And there are countless ways to look at a work of art. Perhaps this issue of TPAG, which is thematically linked by artists whose work is defined by a crossover of styles and ideas, epitomises this.

This issue covers new ground. We have legendary British artist Duggie Fields, who has defied categorisation by pushing boundaries, and we have new columns such as Story, which analyses the link between narrative and image. We hope that TPAG, which has extended its presence beyond Singaporean shores, succeeds at opening eyes, changing perspectives and contemplating new ideas. We hope it delivers the insights into and information about the arts that you are looking for.

Remo Notarianni Editor-in-Chief

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Singapore’s Indigo Blue brings together Indian artists Far-had Hussain, Nayanaa Kanodia, Murali Cheeroth and Vivek Vilasini in the exhibition The Narrator, Protagonist & the Other. Hussain is famous for his portrayal of the changing cultural mores of middle class India. In Cheeroth’s images we see a surrealist spectacle that moves between the ‘real’ and the imagined ‘real’.

Kanodia, in her signature tongue-in-cheek style introduces archetypal figures such as the typical ‘Indian middle class extended family’. Kanodia incorporates iconic works by both European and Indian masters in her paintings.

Vilasini uses traditional theatrical forms to articulate various expressions of cultural identity which are prevalent in society today. Through satire, irony and pastiche, Vilasini constructs a mélange of images that depict parallel histories.

The Narrator, Protagonist & The Other

25.02.11- 24.03.11Indigo Blur Artwww.indigoblueart.com

Singapore’s Kartestudio presents an exhibition of Betty Su-siarjo’s work in Morning, Day, Evening. Three video installation pieces, respectively entitled Morning, Day and Evening are screened simultaneously while being displayed individually in the gallery. Each video reflects the literal translation of its title through footage of contemplative fractions of time, taken by the artist at specific times of the day.

Presented in stages, these instances are dismissed easily and the installation piece resembles the passing of life itself. The space offers feelings of intimacy and familiarity rather than that of a large space with an institutional-feel which may be cold and distant.

Susiarjo’s work is in an unconventional exhibition space lo-cated inside a shopping mall with structural features such as quaint arcs, high ceilings and elongated layouts reminiscent of architectural ruins. The exhibition runs until March 13.

MORNING, DAY, EVENING

23.02.11 – 13.03.11KARTESTUDIOwww.kartestudio.com

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Hong Kong’s Amelia Johnson Contemporary announces ‘Konstantin Bessmertny: Clandestinum’, a hard-hitting, crowd-pleasing exhibition of new painting and three-dimen-sional work. A technical impresario who underwent rigorous formal training, Russian artist Konstantin Bessmertny ad-dresses the absurdities of contemporary living and our un-derstanding of history through lush paintings, with allusions to high and low culture.

Bessmertny presents two very distinct series of works which explore man’s tastes, foibles and fantasies conducted, as usual, with lashings of parody.

‘In Rooms’ features humorous anecdotal dramas which un-fold inside settings based on rooms in European chateaus and palaces, providing the backdrop against which his char-acters act out their roles. The sources of inspiration include Russian icons, cartoons, ex votos, old master portraits, still lifes, trompe-l’oeil and allegorical painting.

Konstantin Bessmertny: Clandestinum

25.02.11-26.03.11Amelia Johnson Contemporarywww.ajc-art.com

In the 1980s, Indonesian artist Jumaldi Alfi burst upon the art scene with Jogja surrealism that quickly developed into a complex style marked by a stirring emotional depth.

Alfi admires the artistic verve and technical virtuosity of post-war German artists such as Anselm Kiefer, Martin Kippen-berger and Georg Baselitz whose meditations on German militarism haunt him as deeply as West Sumatra’s tumultuous past.

‘Melting Memories’ is an exhibition at the Singapore Tyler Print Institute exhibiting Alfi’s diverse experimentations. These in-clude the creation of illusionistic but highly realistic ‘paintings’ of blackboards, and frenzied collages of crudely drawn figure. He also depicts the mythological Greek king Sisyphus, whose eternal struggle of moving a boulder uphill repeatedly tells a story he can relate to. ‘Melting Memories’ runs until March 26.

Melting Memories 26.02.11 - 26.03.11 Singapore Tyler Print Institute (STPI)www.stpi.com.sg

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Singapore’s Yavuz Fine Art presents an exhibition of Thai artist Thaweesak Srithongdee (Lolay). LOOP analyses the evident routine in our lives - in music, fashion trends and history. It urges us to question the possibility of recurring patterns and recurring lives. Often, we come across a person who reminds us of someone else we know of, someone whose manner-isms and lifestyle may even mimic that of a person in history. Lolay presents a parade of influential and historical icons. These include Che Guevara, James Dean, Marie Antoinette, Miyamoto Musashi, Andy Warhol, Marylyn, Monroe, Genghis Khan, Tarzan, Kurt Cobain, John Lennon, June Miller and Anais Nin.

All of these figures are essentially naked, and dressed only in suits of skin that reaffirm their humanity, thus freeing them from stereotypical associations.

Thaweesak Srithongdee: LOOP

05.03.11 – 17.04.11Yavuz Fine Artwww.yavuzfineart.com

Singaporean artist Khairuddin Hori’s primary concern is the position and influence of artists in social development. In the exhibition MAT/RAMLEE, he takes inspiration from the films of esteemed Malay film makers such as P Ramlee and Mat Sen-tol, Khairuddin adds his own contemporary interpretations, with characteristic idiosyncrasies, to narrate the films.

This is achieved with the deliberate pixilation of re-construct-ed scenes from P Ramlee’s films and images from various Mat Sentol films. Khairuddin addresses issues such as the censorship that these filmmakers encountered and the ‘blind-ness’ to crucial social commentaries in films that ensued. The exhibition features works from both his ‘Semerah Padi Revisited’ and his ‘Reconstructing Sentol’ series. MAT/RAM-LEE runs until March 28 at Singapore’s Chan Hampe Galleries @ Raffles Hotel.

MAT/RAMLEE — A solo exhibition by Khairuddin Hori

28.02.11 - 28.03.11Chan Hampe Galleries @ Raffles Hotelwww.chanhampegalleries.com

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SBin Art Plus presents its first photography exhibition – TOP POP, a digital image showcase of “Singapore Idealism” as interpreted by one of Indonesia’s most significant visual artists – Yogyakarta-based Angki Purbandono.

Using a technique known as scannography, Purbandono ex-plores a country that is held up as a model of modernisation, and finds out whether it is as sterile and boring as its critics claim. TOP POP is based on observations made during a 15-day residency in Singapore this year.

Orchard Road which describes the fast-paced movement of Singaporeans depicted through a metal dishwasher scrub; and Phenomenal Mustafa – dolls are enclosed within plastic bags to depict the popular culture of shopping malls and the plastic age we live in. The exhibition runs until April 10.

A Solo Exhibition by Angki Purbandono: TOP POP

11.03.11- 10.04.11S.Bin Art Pluswww.sbinartplus.com

Singapore’s Vue Privée (VP) is proud to present Mojoko’s first solo exhibition entitled ‘Pretty Grotesque’, which will be held at its centrally located VP space.

VP is a new art concept space and is brand focused on lim-ited edition works of art, merchandise, events and a lifestyle inspired by photography. It is a culmination of Olivier Henry’s (VP founder and renowned photographer) passions, fusing his love for, and knowledge of photography with art.

In this circus of peculiarities, Mojoko explores the boundaries of the beautiful and the grotesque. Mojoko’s intense graphic style is a reaction to the bombardment of images in today’s global mass media. An upbringing in Hong Kong has influ-enced his work, as he was surrounded by ‘Eastern’ and ‘Western’ advertising.

Pretty Grotesque

10.03.11 – 18.04.11Vue Privéewww.vueprivee.com

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As the third in its ‘Beyond Canvas’ series, Singapore’s Galerie Sogan & Art is pleased to present its first woodcut printmak-ing exhibition – ‘Circus: The Greatest Show on Earth’ from March 15 to April 12.

Two Indonesian Graphic Art Triennale award-winning print-makers, Irwanto Lentho and A. C. Andre Tanama will feature 12 monoprints and the exhibition will also include ‘Cukilan’ and three-dimensional woodcut objects.

Ever since Andy Warhol perfected the stencil-printing method that gave birth to his celebrity portraits, photographic and tra-ditional processes have found a place in modern art. Howev-er, the ubiquity of digital printing is pushing printmaking tech-niques to the fringes. The artists have used ‘the circus’ as an analogy because, like printmaking, the form of entertainment has been marginalised by technology.

Circus: The Greatest Show on Earth

15.03.11- 12.04.11Galerie Sogan & Artwww.soganart.com

As part of Chan Hampe Galleries’ commitment to the de-velopment of creative talent in Singapore, ‘Notes in Idolatry’ presents four emerging artists – Khairullah Rahim, Izziyana Suhaimi, Abdul Kader, and Leo Liu – who recontextualise popular culture to explore personal identity.

The exhibition pays homage to personal idols whether it be childhood action heroes, toys, food, or ex-lovers. “It is an exploration of singular obsession which is reminiscent of the relationship between artist and muse,” said Amanda Poh, cu-rator and gallery manager at Chan Hampe Galleries @ Tan-jong Pagar.

‘Notes in Idolatry’ includes paintings by Rahim and Liu, a wall relief sculpture by Kader, and hand-embroidered works on paper by Suhaimi. ‘Notes in Idolatry’ runs until March 14.

Notes in Idolatry

14.03.11- 01.04.11Chan Hampe Galleries @ Tanjong Pagarwww.chanhampegalleries.com

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Singapore’s Galerie Belvedere is staging an exhibition of In-dian artist Paresh Maity. Maity has participated in over 45 solo and group exhibitions in cities such as London, Germany and Paris.

His mega installation art was featured at Art Stage Singapore, January 2011.Paresh Maity belongs to the Bengal School of Indian art and comes from a family of prominent painters, in-cluding Sakti Burman. His art is in many collections including the British Museum and the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi.

The exhibition ‘Paresh Maity’s Journeys’ reveal the diversity of his talent. The longest painting in India was painted by Maity in 2010 stretches over 800 feet and is prominently featured in the New Delhi International Airport. The exhibition runs until March 31.

Paresh Maity’s Journeys

till 31.03.11Galerie Belvederewww.galerie-belvedere.com

Award-winning artist Adam Magyar shows his fascination with urban life in this first solo exhibition in Hong Kong at the Karin Weber Gallery. His photographs are best illustrated by his ‘Urban Flow’ and ‘Squares’ series, in which he intentionally distorts perspective to freeze time and motion in an abstract transformation of reality.

‘Stainless’ contains photos taken by the artist in New York’s subway depicting passengers on a moving train. These works are made possible through a highly sophisticated camera and computer program invented by the artist himself.

“It is an ever-present human desire to go further and leave some trace behind in the fraction of the time we are given,” says Magyar. “My drive is not different. I aim to grasp the devices at hand, push towards new frontiers by converting already existing technologies for photography in the hope of coming up with something new, a new device, a new lan-guage, a new frontier.”

Beyond Perspective

22.03.11-11.04.11Karin Weber Gallerywww.karinwebergallery.com

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Among the highlights of the 24th edition of The European Fine Art Fair will be the imposing

and important Henry Moore sculpture ‘Mother and Child Block Seat’, Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s superb depiction of his son Claude, and an extremely rare Greek idol made about 7,000 years ago. They will be among more than 30,000 works of art at TEFAF Maastricht, all rigorously vetted by teams of inter-national experts to maintain the Fair’s reputation for exhibiting only the best pieces.

‘Mother and Child Block Seat’ by Henry Moore will be brought to TEFAF by Landau Fine Art of Mon-

treal, one of the world’s leading specialists in mod-ern art. The 244cm high bronze sculpture will be exhibited in one of the Fair’s squares. Cast in an edition of nine in 1983, three years before Moore’s death, it portrays the child as an elemental, virtu-ally abstract, form as if to represent it in an early stage of development. The effect of “the big form protecting the small form”, as Moore described it, is compelling.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s fine painting of his son Claude will go on public show for the first time at TEFAF Maastricht. Hammer Galleries of New York

FAMILY GATHERINGSTimeless masterpieces will be on show at TEFAF Maastricht when the world’s most influential art and antiques fair opens its doors at the MECC (Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Centre) in Maastricht in the southern Netherlands from 18 to 27 March, 2011.

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Image credit: Mother and child block seat by Henry Moore (1898-1986)

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will exhibit ‘La Leçon (Bielle, l’institutrice et Claude Renoir lisant)’, which portrays Renoir’s third son reading with his school teacher.

The picture, painted c1906, which has been in pri-vate collections for decades, will be part of a Renoir exhibition mounted by Hammer Galleries. In TEFAF Paper, a section introduced in 2010 for works on paper, new exhibitor Stephen Ongpin Fine Art from London will show a Renoir watercolour. ‘Study of a Bather’ is a preparatory work for his painting ‘Bathers in the Forest’, which hangs in the Barnes Foundation in the United States. The price will be £125,000.

Rupert Wace Ancient Art of London will be bring-ing a rare and important Greek idol dating from the Late Neolithic period c5300 – 4500BC to TEFAF Maastricht. The small yet monumental 11.7cm high white marble figure of a woman is one of less than a dozen known pieces dating from this early era, most of which are in museums. It is 2,000 years older than the majority of surviving Cycladic works of art. Although it is recorded as having been in private collections since the 1950s, it has only recently been rediscovered. The female idol, rep-resenting fertility, would almost certainly have been placed in a tomb to accompany the deceased per-son on their journey to the afterlife. Some 7,000 years after it was carved, it is in extremely good condition and will be offered for sale at TEFAF for a price in excess of €1 million.

Two amber altarpieces with ivory carvings made for private worship in late 17th century Germany will be exhibited at TEFAF Maastricht by Kunstkammer Georg Laue from Munich. These pieces are impor-tant because of the extraordinary quality of their workmanship and because of their rarity. It is par-ticularly unusual to find a pair such as this. These beautiful works of art were a speciality of craftsmen in Danzig and were often given as diplomatic pres-ents to foreign rulers by the Prussian court. The combined price of this pair will be €500,000.

The Spanish dealer Deborah Elvira will exhibit ‘Ecce Homo’, one of only a handful of sculptures by El Greco and the only such work by him known to be signed. It is made of polychrome wood and dates from the last quarter of the 16th century. Vé-ronique Bamps of Monaco will offer a unique neck-lace in yellow gold made by René Boivin of Paris in 1945 for Princess Irène of Greece. This superb piece is decorated with pompons set with brilliant cut diamonds.

TEFAF Design is a separate section of the Fair for specialists in modern design and applied arts. Among its highlights in 2011 will be a unique set that was made for the president of the Danish Shipowners Association and will be exhibited by Galerie Eric Philippe of Paris. It consists of a din-ing table, 12 chairs and a sideboard designed by Christen Emanuel Kjaer Monberg and Axel Salto in Denmark in 1923.

TEFAF 2011 will have some 260 exhibitors from 16 countries in nine sections. In addition to exhibitors from established centres of the art and antiques market in Europe and North America, the 2011 Fair will include dealers from Korea, Uruguay and Argentina.

Art, more than an AssetTEFAF shares its view of art as more than an asset with its principal sponsor, AXA Art. Their partnership provides art collectors with unique expertise covering the full range of risk prevention, conservation, recovery and restoration, to enable them to maintain their collections in the best possible condition. www.axa-art.com

La leçon (Bielle, l’institutrice et Claude Renoir lisant) (c1906) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, oil on canvas, 65.3 x 58.1cm

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Thinker digital image, 2010, free-size

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Text: Remo Notarianni

DUGGIE FIELDS

The iconic figures of British artist Duggie Fields seem at home in seas of colour and abstract settings. From here, they help articulate an underly-

ing message.

“In terms of the subject matter of the imagery,” said Fields, “I still think the abstract, constructivist nature is as important for me as the more obvious figurative centres. The only message ever intended is that experience is es-sentially visual, not verbal. There are, however, always verbal associations that can be made and icons inhabit our imagination.”

Since the 1960s, Fields’ work has been so diverse it seems that the central figures, often gleefully awash in reds, blues, greens and greys mixed with brown and orange, provide the focus.

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JUST A CHANCE ENCOUNTER (AND GOODNESS KNOWS WHAT COMPLICATIONS MAY FOLLOW) acrylic on canvas 1980, 88” x 80”

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This colourful language has made the work flamboyantly eloquent and it has entered the sphere of Pop Art with subjects such as Mi-chael Jackson, and Lady Diana Spencer. In the 1970s, Fields was asked by American film director Stanley Kubrick to paint a poster for A Clockwork Orange. But while the subjects seem most obvious to the eye, his canvases are lay-ered with countless influences.

“Somewhere in the conceptual, hard-edged im-ages that followed I started, reluctantly, seeing figurative allusions,” said Fields. “Realising they were there regardless, I began following them more deliberately, with a crossover canvas that started as a minimalist constructivist abstract, into which I eventually placed a small figure of Donald Duck, transforming it completely, while being shouted at in the process by my head of the studio. From that, I realised I was onto something.”

Fields’ persistence in making crossovers led him to explore techniques beyond the palette. In the 1990s, he started experimenting with com-puters and, in a medium that has developed its own aesthetics, he found an unexpected resemblance to the fine art techniques he had used for decades.

“When I first discovered a direction on computer, I realised that it was almost the same technique I was already using... just with another tool,” said Fields. “It was my eye, my hand, and a mouse that replaced either a pencil or a paintbrush. For decades my work had evolved in such a way that I constructed it starting on a canvas. I pro-duced exact studies, first on tracing paper over graph paper, using a ruler and a set square. I traced and re-traced until I reached a final study before starting a coloured version that eventually transferred it to canvas. On screen, I discovered exactly the same process of layers over a grid and tools enabling me to draw straight lines.”

Fields has crossed mediums with the same technique. By drawing over a grid, initially on graph paper with tracing paper on top and us-

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PARTY PIECE, acrylic on canvas 1986, 60” x 75”

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ing architects’ tools, he arrives at some of the core elements of his style.

“My work has this built-in recognition of its own essential flatness,” said Fields. “The flatness of the image gets constantly related in the draw-ing stage to the flatness of the canvas picture-plane. Now in layers on a computer screen, I use straight edges on the figures, and make lots of small parallel lines and lines at right angles. I echo the framework of the picture whilst delin-eating the form of ‘whatever’. I frequently make small distortions to keep the parallels so that although there is an illusion of form, it is always underneath the structure and subtly echoes the picture-plane it is sitting on.”

This ‘flatness’ may have come from the comic-inspired imagery that initially influenced Fields. At the heart of it is an aesthetic that culturally resonates, with the hard-edged elegance of Pop Art, and one that lends itself to reproduc-tion through industrial processes.

This reproduction has taken on a life of its own.

Fields recalls how a friend spotted artwork in a restaurant in Japan that was evidently a copy of his work; some of the pieces emulated his style on subjects he had not done. Fields hu-morously turned this around by doing a copy of one based on an image of Marilyn Monroe in The Seven Year Itch, thus doing “the original after the copy”. In the 1980s, he was invited by the Shiseido Corporation in Japan to exhibit hispaintings and work on advertising campaigns. “The universal appeal of Pop seems to lie in the simplicity of the reproduction of the imagery,” said Fields. “Childhood cartoons likewise seem also universal in appeal. Asian art in particular has a history of flatness, itself an essence of Pop. Possibly my work seems to resonate particularly in Japan through the conceptual and construc-tivist nature of the line I use. It has echoes in eastern calligraphy and techniques of a drawing form that relate also to cartoons rather than to the more western tradition of painterliness.” While there have been attempts to categorise Fields’ work throughout his decades-long ca-

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reer, he stresses labels that include ‘Pop Art’ and ‘Post-Pop Art’ have rarely stuck, as defini-tions seem to disappear into an explosive mix that blurs the line between the familiar and the groundbreaking.

In one tongue-in-cheek manifesto, Fields de-scribed his work as “Maximalist”, but his mi-rage-like figures are most at home in their un-defined settings. “My work has most remained an evolution outside the mainstream art scene, partly just through the nature of cultural timing,” said Fields. “As a result of not being perceived as part of a group, form one perspective, I’ve had a certain freedom; from another, no choice but to go my own way regardless. But something in the work seems to root it in the present. I try not to analyse this too much, so as not to become limited by my own applied concepts, which are always there regardless.”

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INDUSTRIAL ACTION


When the lure of mainland Chinese labour sealed the fate of Hong Kong’s manufacturing sector,

empty factory buildings lingered like industrial ghosts in a city where high rents can kill businesses.

In the past ten years, a group of artist’s studios have re-vitalised factory buildings in Fo Tan, a former industrial hub of Hong Kong’s New Territories.

The Fotanian, which has grown into a creative commu-nity, houses more than 260 artists in 80 studios, con-nected by a labyrinth of stairwells and service lifts that once delivered heavy goods.

The prospect of affordable studios has made complex-es, stained with grime and soot, into creative incuba-tors. Since 2001, the Fotanian has had annual open days that shine a spotlight on its artistic development. With its tenth anniversary in January 2011, the Fota-nian found sponsorship for its open day. But while be-coming the local equivalent of an artist’s village, some see it as a beacon of hope in an art world in the midst of a debate about survival.

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Eddy Chan Kwan Lap1. New Appearance of Glacier No. 4 冰川新顏(四) 50x 100 cm (2010)2. Winter in Mind Snow in Thought No. 4 思冬想雪(四) 69 x 69 cm (2010)

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Simone Boon1. Behind my red brolly, print on archival canvas 100 cm sq (variable)2. Thin line, ultrachrome pigment print on archival photopaper 65 x 90 cm (2010)

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“Year after year, with growing support from par-ticipating artists, visitors, artists and arts organi-sations, the scale of the Fotanian reaches its peak,” said the organiser. “However, it is more important to create opportunities for artistic in-dividuals and groups to voice their thoughts and needs without reserve.” At this year’s open day, crowds of culture vul-tures made surreal organised tours into the heart of the Fotanian, most of which is in the

Wah Luen Industrial Building. They queued up outside semi-derelict godowns, and peered cu-riously into the private studios of artists with an archaeological wonder.

The diversity was oasis-like in the desolate set-ting. The spectrum of artists on offer included experimental image makers Alternatif Fashion Workshop and abstract artist Christopher Ku as well as installation artists such as x1artclub.

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Some visitors perhaps followed the adverts and were curious about the phenomenon; oth-ers were mistakenly armed with cheque books. That ambiguity sums up the creative conundrum that the Fotanian has become, and attracting attention to vital artistic signs also highlights the issues that many creators in the city face.

“The Fotanian is an initiative of artists,” explained Dutch photographer and ceramicist Simone Boon, who shares a studio in the Fotanian with fellow artist Marsha Roddy. “I really admire the very first people who made the steps ten years ago to enter a space in this kind of industrial environment, without knowing it would grow into a vibrant art scene. As pioneers, they found affordable room for art. This is a luxury in Hong Kong and a dream.”

Boon, who describes the nature of the artistic neighbourhood as “organic”, also finds an aes-thetic value in its cavernous setting. “The Fo-tanian open days give an insight into the con-centration of art, which I think is great for the visitors, artists and art lovers,” said Boon. “Art is a window and it is something more than en-tertainment. The ‘event like’ aspect of so many people gathering at the same place, standing in queues for the lifts on a same day, is very attrac-tive, it has a spark of excitement like “this is the place to be, and here is where it happens”.

This fairground quality of the Fotanian Open Day highlights its underlying situation. It has the feel a hinterland, and thus a refuge from the astro-nomical rents that make galleries flounder; but this is a reminder that its very success may en-courage developers to put rents up. Its isola-tion has made it into a creativity lab, even if this might be accidental.

“The purpose of the establishment of my stu-dio is to develop new methods of expression in modern Chinese ink painting,” said Chinese ink painter Eddy Chan Kwan Lap, who finds the environment conducive to creative discovery, as he applies methods of rendering such as sprinking, dotting, printing, spraying, rubbing, contracting and splashing.“I had some artist

friends who have been developing their work in the community for a certain period of time. I found that there is a condensing power of art atmosphere in Fotan. It is in this circumstance of mutual influence that new creative ideas may be aroused.”

This year’s open day received sponsorship from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, as well as property developer Sino Group. The Fo-tanian is not an organisation but a community of people whose very survival could depend on the spirit of independence that it was founded on.

“I think sponsors who think they can piggy-back on the artists at the Fotanian will find that they are actually busy people who will not be lead in a direction that they do not wish to be,” said John Batten, organiser of Hong Kong’s ArtWalk, an annual charity event that involves local galler-ies. “And artists will continue to be independent and creative despite what the market dictates.”

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RECONNECTING THE DOTS

Text: Grace Ko

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The vivid brushwork of Australian Aboriginal artist Sally Harrison seems like a celebration

of the natural world, but there hasn’t always been such colour in her life.

Behind her oil and acrylic paintings is the story of Aborigine children, who from 1910 to 1971 were forcibly removed from their families and communities to be culturally assimilated into Australia’s ‘white society’. Harrison was part of what became known as “the Stolen Genera-tion”. She was one of many children with an Aborigine background who were told that their parents had died.

”My early days at the United Aborigines Mission Home at Bomaderry (South of Sydney) were relatively happy because I had other children to care for me and play with,” said Harrison, who was taken away from her family to a Mission Home that revealed the dark reality of this “assi-miliation” as Aborigine children became trained to serve white Australians. “Most of the mission-aries were kind, but they would mete out harsh punishments if any of the strict rules of behavior were broken.”

Harrison describes a world that was regimented and where people had to “earn their keep” in line with the government policy of the time.

“This meant that all of the children from toddlers to the eldest were put to work helping with the washing, cleaning, collecting firewood, and for the girls, helping to take care of the babies.

“I was taught to change a baby’s nappy and feed it when I was three and a half years old. I must admit that fear of punishment played an important part in our lives, but if we did the right thing and behaved as we were expected, then life was relatively happy considering the draco-nian standards of the day.”

Harrison’s relatively rosy account may have come from ignorance, coupled with childhood innocence, of the reality of her situation at the time but her memories have taken on an un-usual form of nostalgia.

“As a small child with no concept of normal fam-ily life, I did not know any different,” she said. “We were a family and were lucky to have Sister

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Kennedy as our Matron, and other fine young missionaries who instilled the best of our family values in us. My problems really started after I was adopted, but the less said about that, the better.”

But like many of the Stolen Generation, the pain became immeasurable when reality did sink in. Harrison states that painting, which started as a way to reconnect with her Aborigine roots, has been an integral part of the healing process. She has held two successful exhibitions at The Bo-maderry Mission Home, where she was brought up. She has opened people’s eyes to a side of mission life that many are not aware of. In doing so she has reflected on the only real family she ever had.

“Life has taught me that it is very unhealthy to dwell on the enormous negative impact of abuse, trauma and loss,” she said. “You have to find a way to stop the past from dominating your life and move on, so that you have some hope for the future. Painting is the tool I use to help myself move on.”

The loss that Sally Harrison felt when she was forcibly removed from her family has been ad-dressed in artwork that reconnects her with ‘the land’. To the Australian Aborgines, artwork is about more than just paintings. According to Aborigine tradition, artists are engaged in a sacred dialogue with ‘the Land’. This cre-ates a bond between man, nature and the Aborigine‘Dreamtime’- a spiritual dimension where they believe ancient spirits created the Earth.

As one of the Stolen Generation, Australian art-ist Sally Harrison wasn’t nurtured with the same skills that Aborigine tribes used to educate their children. But it was through a quirk of fate that she became reconnected.

“In 1992, I took 12 months leave without pay from the Public Services in Brisbane and trav-elled to Carnarvon. In Western Australia with the intention of working as a deck hand on the scallop trawlers,” Harrison said. “Unfortunately, I suffered from extreme sea sickness and was forced to re-evaluate what I was going to do for the next 12 months.

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“At that time, I had not come to terms with myself as an Aborigine, and knew nothing at all about Aboriginal culture, simply because I was forced to deny it in my childhood and early adulthood. I decided it was time I addressed this issue, so I enrolled in an Aborginal skills course, where I was introduced to dot painting for the first time.”

It was not easy for Harrison to learn at first, but dot painting was somehow able to fill some gaps. “It was a long and frustrating process learning to adjust to this new art form and to stop my ‘white’ mind from making judgements and interfering with the painting and spoiling it. “After a long apprenticeship of 18 years, I finally feel comfortable with myself and my art and truly do feel that the land speaks to me on an unconscious level and that I can convey that feeling through my paintings.”

Within a few years of painting, her dot paintings became discovered by the Creative Native Art Gallery in the Western Australian city of Perth, and they were sold within a few weeks. Her popularity may be the result of a nation reflect-ing on its past. But Harrison’s work is a unique mix of Aborigine tribal art with a wide ouvre of styles.

Harrison feels as though she belongs to neither culture, perhaps because she was deprived of the opportunity to mix with either group as a child. She has had several mental disorders diagnosed including post-traumatic stress dis-order and chronic depression. This indicates the pain that her reconnection has unearthed.

But her story also is also proof of the sublime nature of painting as an art form. “Painting is like magic – it happily disconnects you from the past, the present and your consciousness with all its thoughts, beliefs, ideas and attitudes. You are reduced to being a non-judgemental, silent observer with no ego; nothing more than an eye that sees and is aware of everything you need to do to create a successful painting.

“It’s a wonderful state of mind because there is nothing there to bother you or give you grief. There is nothing ‘wrong’ with you. In any case, I cease to have any disabilities-they simply do not exist in this state of being. Painting not only gives me pleasure and satisfaction, but gives pleasure and happiness to others.”

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Gallery, Seoul / Osage Gallery, Hong Kong / Beijing / Singapore / Shanghai / Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo / Other Criteria, London / Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney / Pace Beijing, Beijing / Pace Prints, New York / The Paragon Press, London / Pékin Fine Arts, Beijing / Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Miami / Paris / PKM Gallery, Beijing / Seoul / Plum Blossoms Gallery, Hong Kong / Polígrafa Obra Gráfica, Barcelona / Project 88, Mumbai / Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City / ALMINE RECH GALLERY, Brussels / Paris / ROKEBY, London / Röntgenwerke AG, Tokyo / Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris / Salzburg / Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne / Rossi & Rossi, London / SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo / Schoeni Art Gallery, Hong Kong / Schuebbe Projects, Dusseldorf / Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne / Sydney / ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai / ShugoArts, Tokyo / Gallery Side 2, Tokyo / Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York / silverlens gallery, Manila / Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore / Skarstedt Gallery, New York / Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam / Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami / Soka Art Centre, Beijing / Tainan / Taipei / Sperone Westwater, New York / Sprüth Magers Berlin London, Berlin / London / Starkwhite, Auckland / Tang Contemporary Art, Bangkok / Beijing / Hong Kong / Timothy Taylor Gallery, London / Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne / Van de Weghe Fine Art, New York / Vilma Gold Gallery, London / Vitamin Creative Space, Beijing / Guangzhou / White Cube, London / Max Wigram Gallery, London / Wilkinson Gallery, London / x-ist, Istanbul / YAMAMOTO GENDAI, Tokyo / ZieherSmith, New York / David Zwirner, New York


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CUTTING THE WAY FORWARD Text: Remo Notarianni

In a few words, mainland Chinese paper cutter Li Yun Xia measures the distance be-tween Hong Kong and her native Shaanxi province. They also cross centuries as she remembers the home of an ancient art form.

“I feel a connection with Shaanxi through the scissors,” said the Hong Kong-based Li. “For centuries, paper cutting was the main pastime for both married and single women in the province and it is linked to embroidery. Paper cutting skills came first, followed by embroidery and then looks. I was discov-ered while working at Henan University in 1990 and shortlisted out of 400 students because I was able to improvise the cutting. The others had to draw the images first.”

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Li, who was taught paper cutting by her mother when she was six years old, was recruited by the China Folk Cultural Village of Shenzhen in the 1990s. Her works became political gifts for figures such as former US president Richard Nixon and Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

Shaanxi’s rural setting has shaped Li’s work. Encoded in the imagery are the beliefs and the aesthetic values of the people of the Loess plateau. While being a traditional art form that dates back to the sixth century AD, paper cut-ting transcends the artistic methods of painting and drawing. And not being confined by such principles has given the artists an essential free-dom.

According to Chen Jing, Vice President and President of Folk Arts Committee in New York: ”The form is no longer shaped from observation from without but rather from introspection and perception from within.” The cutting process lends itself to a represen-tational art form as the scissors manipulate shapes that make the images symbolic. Unlike pencil and brush, that can manipulate shade, colour and depth, scissors have the emotive power to shape the paper itself.

“Whether happy or sad, the women of Shaanxi express themselves through paper cutting,” said Li.”I have found this art form has a directly attuned to my emotions and the imagery is a reflection of my moods and ideas. “

The emotional intensity of the line and the shape of the figure have a wave-like quality that reflects the artist’s inner world. This has told the story of Li’s personal journey. In 2000, she moved to Hong Kong, where she had to find a new direc-tion artistically.

She reconnected with Shaanxi through cutting her familiar folk art, and it took on a different form as she reflected on it from a different place. But her reinterpretation was a melancholy long-ing for home rather than a cultural affirmation.

“These were touchstones of my homeland,” said Li.”I began to cut images of pomegranates and rural people working the land. But with that came symbols of rebirth and feminine forms.” Universality came out of this imagery that was an essential response to personal experience. The cut has become a mode of individual ex-pression rather than one of an artistic tradition. Yet, rather than betraying tradition, she made full use of the creative scope that the art form has long provided.

Her composition ‘The Lady of the Sea’ depicts a female form rising out of an ocean. The long hair of the lady could easily represent turbulent waves. As it transforms into the image of the lady’s exaggerated breast, a symbol of female power arises that is as coherent as any cultural motif.

This transformation is also evident in the use of black paper. According to Chinese artistic tra-dition, black is not a lucky colour. But tradition may not be an issue, especially with the folk art’s essential versatility and Li’s work is an example of how the art can still evolve while respecting its origins.

“I expressed longing for my homeland in my work,” said Li.” This transformed it in a way that makes me artistically independent. But even if this best reflects my present situation, it is a de-parture more than a complete cut from tradition. I can never lose contact for as long as I continue to express myself through the scissors.”

Li Yun Xia will conduct a paper cutting workshop in Singapore in 2011.

For more information, email [email protected].

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TALE bONDING

A tale about a kung fu-savvy disciple and a drunken US veteran battling foes in Thailand

is made for cinematic high kicks. But The Blood Bond, the debut novel of Hong Kong-based screenwriter and producer Bey Logan, is not the film tie-in of its screen version, Shadow-guard, which opened in Hong Kong cinemas on January 27.

“Well, firstly, the novel is set in Thailand, where we originally intended to shoot the film,” said Logan. “This was right after I worked there on another movie called Shanghai. At that time, the story had a lot more metaphysical and religious elements in it, reflecting my interests; and the later script became more realistic and overtly political, reflecting those of its director.”

Logan, who released the film through his film company B&E Productions, said the book was written from the first draft of the script, left behind when director Michael Biehn, who appeared in

films such as The Terminator, reshaped the tale. Core elements of the story, about a religious leader called the Karmapata – who needs a life-saving blood transfusion within 12 hours after being wounded by an assassin in Bangkok – have been preserved.

The story arc intensifies when possible blood donors are killed off by ruthless assassins who belong to an organisation called the Red Dawn. Deva, devout guardian of the Karmapata, sets off to northern Thailand to find the last man whose blood can save her master, a drunken former US Special Forces operative called John Tremayne. The bond that forms between the two strengthens as they battle assailants on their way to the hospital in which lies the Kar-mapata.

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so you couldn’t just remake them in English, shot-for-shot, or you’d be back where they started!”

The screen-inspired origins of the book and the way it uses the written word to describe martial arts makes an interesting crossover. Logan’s lens follows a sequence of cinematic vignettes with stories and scenes that seem straight out of action cinema, giving it the unique quality in parts of reading like a film script. It also con-veys the choreographic language of martial arts, helping us understand actions that seem to trademark the characterisation and move the story forward.

“Deva uses a basically defensive art, which is based on Chen Tai Chi,” said Logan, “but we see her get more aggressive as the film progresses and the danger increases. Tremayne has some basic military training, but, when we meet him, he is basically a bar room brawler. (And we do have two brawls in two bars in the book and the film). The idea was that the action came out of circumstance. There’s more stylised combat in the book than there was in the original cut of the film. We had to do some reshoots to redress the balance.”

With an internship programme at B& E Produc-tions, Logan is attempting to lead the way for talent that wants to cross the same boundaries, but he is also hoping to be part of a paradigm shift that broadens cultural and creative possi-bilities within the field.

“I offer whatever help and advice I can,” said Logan, “as I think a more cosmopolitan genera-tion of film-makers will be to our advantage as an industry. I think that Asian action cinema is open to endless reinterpretation, and that there are combinations of elements that still haven’t been explored. For example, we have yet to have a really great Chinese science fiction film, or a kung fu film noir. There are always new sto-ries to tell within the genre.”

Logan. When I was working with actress Mag-gie Quigley, we were always looking at similar structures, or possible contrasting teams. The finished ‘Blood Bond Saga: Shadowguard’ film is more Michael’s vision, shot in China but set in a fictitious Asian country called Purna. I think the book gives you an insight into how the film might have looked had I directed it in Thailand.”

That contrast could symbolise Logan’s unique relationship with the Hong Kong film industry, which he describes as one of “East and West”. Hailing from the English town of Stamford, Lo-gan’s cross-cultural odyssey began when he lived out a childhood dream to make Hong Kong action movies. After learning martial arts, founding movie action magazines and learning Chinese, Logan arrived in Hong Kong, eventu-ally landing a place in the film industry.

He wrote screenplays for films such as Ballistic Kiss (1998) and provided audio commentaries for international releases of Hong Kong movies. He also co-wrote the screenplay for the 2003 Jackie Chan film The Medallion. In 2005, Logan was appointed by Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein to become Vice President of Asian Acquisitions and Co-Productions at his com-pany.

Leaving the Weinstein Company in 2009 to form B&E Productions, Logan, who has also penned numerous books on action movies, has an en-cyclopaedic knowledge of Asian cinema upon which he can draw to shape stories. With an in-ternational production team, Shadowguard has the same cross-cultural ethos and it is a nod to the world of cinema that he has become a part of.

“The original script for The Blood Bond, which I wrote about 20 years ago, was very much in-spired by the kind of martial arts action thrillers Hong Kong directors were making at the time,” said Logan. “Ironically, many of them borrowed their plotlines wholesale from Hollywood films,

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“Mummy, where’s Picasso?” The question, from a boy in the middle of what has been called the world’s most expensive hotel, was

echoed by a crowd of Singlish-speaking families in flip flops, curious about offerings in booths with powerpoint sockets that cost 100 bucks a day to rent.

It was heartening to see a mixed bag of guests at an event in which you would only expect to find A-list art collectors with bulging wallets bearing Louboutins and Pradas.

As one of around 30,000 visitors to Singapore’s Art Stage 2011, I was stoked by the expectation of heavy-hitters such as Takashi Murakami, Andy Warhol and Pablo Picasso. What I found was a flagship effort to promote Singapore as an arts hub, while showcasing an architectural masterpiece across four halls in the iconic Marina Bay Sands hotel.

With more than 120 galleries participating from 19 different countries, the exhibition space had been transformed and threw down a gauntlet perhaps too big for the maps handed out at the orange front desk to help run.

Art Stage was disorientating in its scale, but its ability to reach out to the average Singaporean was breathtaking. It also raised questions about the state of contemporary art, that has brought so-called ‘lo brow’ and pop art once called kitsch by critics into the fold. As dumbstruck as the child searching for Picasso, I found myself following my own trail of questions about the meaning of contemporary art.

Once shunned by curators, graffiti artists now bear expensive price tags, making sprayed public walls as respectable as the Sistine Chapel. They are being commissioned for installations and station ceilings. And with the likes of Banksy adding mystique to the craft, they are yet to be fully understood.

But great art often feels limited by categories. Homegrown Phunk Studio’s giant ‘Control Chaos’ was a centre piece at Art Stage; it was a hit with browsers, shutter-happy at a psychedelic backdrop of heaven, earth and hell, intertwined

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with oriental mythology and layers of urban living. And this labyrinth interweaved unpredictably. I spotted a Duchamp-esque toilet bowl in one of the booths, complete with half a boot-print. True to the spirit of Marcel Duchamp, I neglected to note the name of the artist who created the piece. Yayoi Kusama’s polka dotted prints seemed eclipsed by Ran Hwang’s ‘Two Love Trees’. She gathered a bunch of ordinary buttons, and using pins and thread, stitched them onto a large canvas, re-contextualising them into simple and seductive cherry blossom trees.

The contemporary in its boldness may have brought the art world closer to the everyday.

In an indiscriminate act of inter-cultural borrowing, the art work in Vivek Vilasini’s series ‘Between One Shore and Several Others’ uses digital manipulation to reinterpret ‘Western’ iconographies. The Indian artist meshed Indian sensibilities with the works of Italian Renaissance artists Michelangelo and Da Vinci, amongst others.

Similarly, Bae Joon Sung, a Korean artist, cleverly used lenticular imagery to insert images of ladies from ancient Chinese dynasties into Victorian English homes. His harmonious juxtaposition of the orient and the occident found bold similarities.

But my favourite work at Art Stage had to be Ronald Manullang’s ‘Final Judgement’ series, in which the Indonesian artist painted German wartime dictator Adolf Hitler in a female guise in six different portraits, each of them equally powerful and fascinating in concept and form.

Manullang’s series at once evokes and provokes on issues such as politics, religion and history. In the images, he combined Catholic iconography with the politics of the holocaust with an eerie historical irony. In the final painting of the series, Manullang brushes up the image of a happy family that includes Hitler, holocaust victim Anne Frank and a baby (probably Jewish and tattooed,

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like the babies in the previous five paintings). What jumps out of you is that Anne Frank is holding an iPad. As I giggled, the image humorously drew attention to the fact that the vast majority of the gallery assistants were armed with iPads instead of traditional print catalogues. Snazzy touch-screen technology and high definition pictures co-existed with art, that while being called cutting edge, did not use technology.

The contrast drew attention to something. Even Indian artist Raghava K.K. had his art works installed on a gadget in which the background colour of the digital compositions would change according to weather and location. The art world has definitely evolved with the advent of cutting-edge technology but will this redefine contemporary? At least a third of the installations involved some kind of technology, way more modern than photography and mixed-media prints.

This was epitomised by intriguing installations such as ‘Crystal City’ by Taiwanese artist Wu Chi-Tsung who used a projector, LED lighting, a conveyor belt and plastic structures to create an urban environment of geometric transparency.

Another Taiwanese artist Hung Tung Lu exhibited ‘There’ and ‘Here’. I am no technology whizz,, but it was apparent to me that Hung created the two pieces of his work using lightboxes, parallax barriers and stereograms. I had never experienced the 3-D spectacle, in which a female protagonist of the piece

appears to be looking at you from every angle, wherever you walked. It was an image of the Mona Lisa, albeit much swankier. The female’s eyes would change shape, as if she was winking at you; her body would contort at a different angle if you moved slightly to your left; and her open genitalia was sprouting flower buds that would at times seem to quiver and shrink as you stood trying to absorb the art work. Perhaps a real definition of contemporary art is out of reach, but I certainly felt I was close.

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Boon’s Pottery, Bruno Gallery

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Source Contemporary African Fine Art

MERLIONDreamSpace Art Studio

Fortune Cookie Projects, Galerie Waterton, Light Editions Gallery, L2 SPACE, ReDot Gallery, Valentine Willie Fine Art

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LEGEND

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Art Trove Gallery 51 Waterloo Street #02-01/2/3Singapore 187969

T: +65 6336 0915 F: +65 6336 9975E: [email protected] W: www.art-trove.com

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Dd’Art 5 Westbourne Road #02-03D’Peak Art Space Kaki Bukit Road 1 #01-07DaTang Fine Arts Singapore 177 River Valley Road #02-09ADLR Gallery 22 Marshall RoadDynasties Antique & Art Gallery 18 Boon Lay Way #01-136

EEagle’s Eye 39 Stamford Road #01-01Echo Art Galerie 19 Tanglin Road #02-59Evil Empire 48 Niven Road

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GGalerie Belvedere 168 Robinson Road #36-01Galerie Waterton 39 Keppel Road #02-01GJ Asian Art 1 Cuscaden Road #01-03The Gallery of Gnani Arts 1 Cuscaden Road #01-05Gallery Reis 390 Orchard Road #03-01/02

HHaKaren 19 Tanglin Road #02-43Heng Artland 290 Orchard Road #04-08

IImpress Galleries 1 Kim Seng Promenade #02-07/08Indigo Blue Art 33 Neil Road INSTINC 12 Eu Tong Sen StreetiPRECIATION 1 Fullerton Square #01-08

GALLERIES

AAndrewShire Gallery 5 Swiss Cottage EstateAratong Galleries 26 Mount Pleasant DriveArt Forum 82 Cairnhill RoadArt Glass Solutions 30 Kuo Chuan AvenueArt Seasons 7 Kaki Bukit Road 1 #02-12Art Tree Gallery 333A Orchard Road #04-11

Art-2 Gallery 140 Hill Street #01-03artcommune 133 New Bridge Road #02-77Artesan 793 Bukit Timah Road #02-01 Artfolio 328 North Bridge Road #02-25ArtGoGo 402 Orchard Road #02-08ARTINNO 391B Orchard Road #23-01Arty Art Gallery 686A Woodlands Drive 73 #15-52Aryaseni 10A Bukit Pasoh

BBartha & Senarclens 75 Emerald Hill Road

CCape of Good Hope 140 Hill Street #01-06

CdeM ART & DESIGN Blk 5 Westbourne Road #01-02Collectors Contemporary 5 Jalan Kilang Barat #01-03COMBINART 27 Woodlands Industrial Park E1 #01-08

Boon’s Pottery91 Tanglin Road #01-02A Tanglin Place Singapore 247918T: +65 6836 3978www.boonspottery.com

Bruno Gallery91 Tanglin Road#01-03 Tanglin Place Singapore 247918T: +65 6733 0283www.brunoartgroup.com

fill your walls21 Tanjong Pagar Road #04-02Singapore 088444T: +65 6222 1667www.fill-your-walls.com

Forest Rain Gallery261 Waterloo Street #02-43/44 Singapore 180261T: +65 6336 0926www.forestraingallery.com

Art Trove51 Waterloo Street #02-01 to 03Singapore 187969T: +65 6336 0915www.art-trove.com

Chan Hampe Galleries @ Raffles Hotel328 North Bridge Road#01-04 Raffles Hotel ArcadeSingapore 188719T: +65 6338 1962 www.chanhampegalleries.com

Chan Hampe Galleries @ Tanjong Pagar21 Tanjong Pagar Road#04-02Singapore 088444T: +65 6222 1667www.chanhampegalleries.com

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LLarasati www.larasati.comLinda Gallery 15 Dempsey Road #01-08

Light Editions Gallery 39 Keppel Road #02-02BLiving Portraits 31 Tanjong Pagar Lukisan Art Gallery 110 Faber Drive

MM Gallery 51 Waterloo Street #03-03B/04Metakaos 1 Kaki Bukit Road 1 #03-22

OOde to Art 252 North Bridge Road #01-36E/FOpera Gallery 2 Orchard Turn #03-05

Li Fine Art19 Tanglin Road#03-32 Tanglin Shopping CentreSingapore 247909T: +65 6235 3306www.lifineart.com

Ken Crystals133 New Bridge Road#01-45 Chinatown PointSingapore 059413T: +65 6339 0008 E: [email protected]

Mulan Gallery19 Tanglin Road#02-33 Tanglin Shopping Centre Singapore 247909T: +65 6738 0810www.mulangallery.com.sg

Muse The Art Gallery268 Upper Bukit Timah Rd #03-09 @ The Old Fire StationSingapore 588210T: +65-8388 0044www.musetheartgallery.com

OVAS Art Gallery9 Penang Road#02-21 Park MallSingapore 238459T: +65 6337 3932 www.ovas-home.com

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SS.Bin Art Plus 140 Hill Street #01-10/11/12Soobin Art International 10 Ubi Crescent #04-90/92/93/95

Sun Craft 19 Tanglin Road #02-08

TTasa Gallery 89 Short StreetTembusu 140 Hill Street #01-05The Gallery of Gnani Arts One Cuscaden Road #01-05The Peach Tree 129 Tanglin RoadThe Tolman Collect 82 Cairnhill Road

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Pop and Contemporary Fine Art390 Orchard Road#03-12 Palais Renaissance Singapore 238871T: +65 6735 0959www.popandcontemporaryart.com

Sunjin Galleries 43 Jalan Merah Saga#03-62 Work Loft @ Chip Bee Singapore 278115T: +65 6738 2317www.sunjingalleries.com.sg

Utterly Art LLP229A South Bridge RoadSingapore 058778T: +65 9487 2006 +65 6226 2605www.utterlyart.com.sg

Galerie Sogan & Art33B Mosque StreetSingapore 059511T: +65 6225 7686www.soganart.com

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VUE PRIVÉE 20 Cairnhill Road

WWetterling Teo Gallery 3 Kim Yam RoadWhite Canvas Gallery 78 Guan Chuan Street

XXuanhua Art Gallery 70 Bussorah Street

YYang Gallery 19 Tanglin Road #02-41 YAVUZ Fine Art 51 Waterloo Stree #03-01Your MOTHER gallery 91A Hindoo Road

#2902 Gallery 11 Mount Sophia Block B #B2-09

ART AUCTIONEERS / DEALERSBlack Earth Auction 367 Joo Chiat RoadBorobudur www.borobudurauction.comMasterpiece www.masterpiece-auction.comY2ARTS 140 Hill Street #01-0233 Auction www.33auction.com

MUSEUMS

Asian Civilisations Museum www.acm.org.sgChangi Museum 1000 Upper Changi Road North

MAD Museum of Art & Design 333A Orchard Road #03-01MINT Museum of Toys 26 Seah StreetNational Museum of Singapore 93 Stamford RoadPeranakan Museum 39 Armenian StreetPost Museum 107/109 Rowell RoadThe Private Museum 51 Waterloo Street #02-06Red Dot Design Museum 28 Maxwell RoadRSAF Museum 400 Airport Road Singapore Art Museum 71 Bras Basah RoadSAM at 8Q 8 Queen StreetSingapore Coins and Notes Museum 2 Trengganu Street Level 3

Singapore Navy Museum 32 Admiralty Road WestSingapore Philatelic Museum 23B Coleman Stree

VENUES / ASSOCIATIONS / GROUPS

Alliance Française de Singapour 1 Sarkies RoadArt Retreat (Wu Guanzhong Gallery) 10 Ubi Crescent #01-45/47ARTSingapore www.artsingapore.netArtSpace at Royal Plaza Hotel 25 Scotts RoadCOMBINART 27 Woodlands Industrial Park E1 #01-08Esplanade 1 Esplanade DriveEmily Hill 11 Upper Wilkie RoadGive Art 65 Spottiswoode Park RoadGnani Arts Space 190 Middle Road #02-03/31Jalan Bahar Clay Studios 97L Lorong TawasJENDELA (Visual Arts Space) 1 Esplanade Drive Level 2La Libreria 50 Kent Ridge Crescent Level 3Little Red Shop www.littleredshop.org

Ngee Ann Cultural Centre 97 Tank RoadNight & Day 139 A/C Selegie RoadOsage 11B Mount Sophia #01-12Post-Museum 107+109 Rowell RoadPublic Art Space (Pan Pacific) 7 Raffles BoulevardSculpture Square 155 Middle RoadSinema 11B Mount Sophia #B1-12 Singapore Art Society 10 Kampong EunosSingapore Contemporary Young Artists www.contemporaryart.sgThe Art Gallery 1 Nanyang WalkThe Arts House 1 Old Parliament LaneThe Gallery (SMU) 90 Stamford RoadThe Picturehouse 2 Handy RoadThe Substation 45 Armenian StreetThird Floor – Hermès 541 Orchard RoadVictoria Theatre & Concert Hall 11 Empress PlaceVolvo Art Loft 249 Alexandra Road72-13/TheatreWorks 72-13 Mohamed Sultan Road

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The Luxe Art Museum6 Handy Road#02-01 The LuxeSingapore 229234T: +65 6338 2234www.thelam.sg

Ray’s Transport & ServicesArtwork Installation & Delivery ServicesAll other Art related services+65 [email protected]

Mercedes-Benz Center301 Alexandra RoadSingapore 159968T: +65 6866 1888www.mercedes-benz.com.sg

Yisulang Art Gallery6 Handy Road#01-01 The Luxe Singapore 229234T: +65 63376810www.yisulang.com

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FRAMERS

Ace Framing Gallery 226 River Valley RoadFrame Hub Gallery 46A Lorong Mambong

CONSERVATION / RESTORATION

ART SCHOOLS

Bhaskar’s Art Academy 19/21 Kerbau RoadLASALLE 1 McNally StreetNanyang Academy of Fine Arts 38/80/151 Bencoolen StNTU (School of Art, Design & Media) 81 Nanyang DriveNUS Museum 50 Kent Ridge CrescentSchool of the Arts (SOTA) 1 Zubir Said DriveSotheby’s Institute of Art 82 Telok Ayer StreetThe Republic Cultural Centre 9 Woodlands Avenue 9The Singapore Tyler Print Institute 41 Robertson Quay

ARTIST STUDIOS

Barrosa Studio 4 Woking Road #01-02

Benaka Art Conservation Private Ltd64 Taman WarnaSingapore 276386T: +65 9105 4377 / +65 6100 2707www.benakaartconservation.com

Peter’s Frames19 Tanglin Road #02-02 Tanglin Shopping CentreSingapore 247909T: +65 6737 [email protected]

Geeleinan Art Gallery & Studio 1 Whitchurch Road #02-03Jeremy Ramsey Fine Art 16 Bukit Pasoh RoadKelly Reedy - Studio Arts 27 Woking Road #01-01Marisa Keller 28 Woking Road #03-05

Sealey Brandt Photography Studio 1 Westbourne Road #01-02 Telok Kurau Studios 91 Telok Kurau Lorong J

TOURISTS SPOTS

Armenian Church 60 Hill StreetBattle Box 51 Canning RiseBotanic Gardens 1 Cluny Road +65 6471 7361Buddha Tooth Relic Temple 288 South Bridge RoadBukit Timah Saddle Club 51 Fairways Drive +65 6466 2782CHIJMES 30 Victoria Street +6336 1818Chinatown Heritage Centre 48 Pagoda Street +65 6221 9556Chinese Garden 1 Chinese Garden +65 6261 3632Crocodilarium 730 East Coast Parkway +65 447 3722Escape Theme Park 1 Pasir Ris Close +65 6581 9112Fort Canning Park 51 Canning Rise +65 6332 1302Goethe-Institut Singapur 163 Penang Road #05-01Johore Battery Cosford Road +65 6546 9897

Foundation Oil Painting(conducted by Mr Wee Shoo Leong)155 Waterloo Street#01-04 Stam ford Arts CentreSingapore 187962+65 9726 2028www.foundationoilpaintingclass.com

Ketna Patel35 Jalan Puteh JernehChip Bee Gardens, Holland VillageSingapore 278057+65 6479 3736www.ketnapatel.com

Chieu Sheuy Fook Studio Studio 102 91 Lorong J Telok Kurau Road Singapore 425985+65 96690589e: [email protected]

DreamSpace Art Studio艺术创作，专业绘画教育。19 China Street#03-04/05 Far East SquareSingapore 049561+65 9168 7785www.hill-ad.com.sg

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

PIA Preserve In Aesthetics art preservation . conservation . restoration

63 Hillview Avenue #02-06BLam Soon Industrial BuildingSingapore 669569T: +65 6760 2602 / +65 9118 [email protected]

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Jurong Bird Park 2 Jurong Hill +65 6265 0022Kranji War Memorial 9 Woodlands RoadLim Bo Seng Memorial Esplanade ParkMalay Heritage Centre 85 Sultan Gate +65 6391 0450Malay Village 39 Geylang Serai +65 6748 4700Mandai Orchid Garden 200 Mandai Lake Road +65 6269 1036Marina Barrage 8 Marina Gardens Drive +65 6514 5959Marina Bay Sands 10 Bayfront Avenue +65 6688 8868Masjid Sultan Kampong GlamMerlion Park Fullerton Mount Faber +65 6270 8855National Archives of Singapore 1 Canning Rise +65 6332 7909National Library Singapore 100 Victoria Street +65 6332 3255National Parks Board 1800 471 7300Night Safari 80 Mandai Lake Road +65 6269 3411Parliament House 1 Parliament Place +65 6336 8811Raffles’ Landing Site North bank of the Singapore RiverReflections at Bukit Chandra 31K Pepys Road +65 6375 2510Resorts World Sentosa 39 Artillery Avenue +65 6577 8888St. Andrew’s Cathedral 11 Saint Andrew’s RoadScience Centre Singapore / Omni Theatre 15 Science Centre Road +65 6425 2500Sentosa 1800 736 8672SIA Hop-on +65 9457 2896Singapore Botanic Gardens 1 Cluny Road +65 6471 7361Singapore Cable Car +65 6270 8855Singapore City Gallery 45 Maxwell Road +65 6321 8321Singapore Discovery Centre 510 Upper Jurong Road +65 6792 6188Singapore Expo 1 Expo Drive +65 6403 2160 Singapore Flyer 30 Raffles Avenue +65 6734 8829Singapore Turf Club 1 Turf Club Avenue +65 6879 1000Singapore Zoo 80 Mandai Lake Road +65 6269 3411SKI360° 1206A East Coast Parkway +65 6442 7318Snow City 21 Jurong Town Hall Road +65 6560 2306Sri Mariamman Temple 244 South Bridge RoadSun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall 12 Tai Gin Road +65 6256 7377Supreme Court 1 Supreme Court Lane +65 6336 0644Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve 301 Neo Tiew Crescent +65 6794 1401Taxis - Comfort/YellowTop +65 6552 1111- CityCab +65 6552 2222- Premier +65 732 2516- Smart +65 6485 7777- Tibs +65 6555 8888- Transcab +65 6555 3333Thian Hock Keng Temple 158 Telok Ayer StreetTouristline 1800 736 2000 Underwater World 80 Siloso Road +65 6275 0030Universal Studios 8 Sentosa Gateway +65 6577 8888War Memorial Park Bras Basah Road & Beach Road intersection

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+Wondermilk Art Gallery www.theclickproject.com12 (Art Space Gallery) www.12as12.comA2 Gallery www.a2artgallery.comAnnexe Gallery www.annexegallery.comArt Case Galleries www.artcase.com.myArt Expo Malaysia www.artexpomalaysia.comArt House Gallery www.arthousegallery.bizArt Loft www.artloftgallery.netArt Salon @ Seni www.theartgallerypg.comArtseni Gallery www.artseni.com CHAI (Instant Cafe House of Arts and Idea) www.instantcafetheatre.comCity Art Gallery Edi.A Art Gallery www.ediarts.blogspot.comGaleri Chandan www.galerichandan.comGALERI PETRONAS www.galeripetronas.com.myGaleri Shah Alam www.galerisa.comgalleriiizu @ Shangri-La Hotel www.galleriiizu.comHouse of Matahati (HOM) www.matahati.com.myIslamic Arts Museum www.iamm.org.myLookiss www.lookissgallery.comLost Generation Space www.lostgenerationspace.blogspot.comMalaysia National Art Gallery www.artgallery.gov.myMERAH: Mansion for Experimentation, Research, Arts and Horticulture www.facebook.com/pages/MERAH/148050170487Metro Fine Art www.metro3gallery.comNN Gallery www.nngallery.com.myPace Gallery www.pacegallery.netPelita Hati www.pelitahati.com.myPinkguy Gallery www.pinkguymalaysia.comRichard Koh Fine Art www.rkfineart.comRimbun Dahan www.rimbundahan.orgRougeArt www.rogueart.asiaShalini Ganendra Fine Art www.shaliniganendra.comThe Gallery @ Star Hill www.starhillgallery.comValentine Willie Fine Art www.vwfa.netWei-Ling Gallery www.weiling-gallery.comY 2 S Art Space www.y2sart.com.myZINC www.zinc.com.my

HONGKONG ART GUIDEAmelia Johnson Gallery www.ajc-art.comI/O Input Output www.inputoutput.tvKarin Webber Gallery www.karinwebbergallery.comMADHOUSE Contemporary www.madhouse.com.hk

EUROPE ART GUIDEFLO PETERS GALLERYChilehaus CPumpen 820095 Hamburg, Germany+49 40 3037 4686www.flopetersgallery.com

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LONDON ART GUIDEJealous Gallery 27 Park Road N8 8TE Crouch End LondonAICON GALLERY London 8 Heddon Street, London W1B 4BU The Air Gallery 32 Dover Street, London W1S 4NEKings Place Gallery 90 York Way, London N1 9AG Serpentine Gallery Kensington Gardens, London W2 3XAWalton Fine Arts154 Walton Street, Knightsbridge, London SW3 2JJChinese Contemporary The Studio House, 7/9 Edith Grove ,London, SW 10 0JZRichard Green147 New Bond Street, London, W1S 2TSLisson Gallery 52-54 Bell Street, London, NW1 5DASouth London Gallery 65 Peckham Road, London SE5 8UHThe Brick Lane Gallery 196 BRICK LANE, E1 6SA LondonThe Hart Gallery 113 Upper Street, Islington London N1 1QNDanielle Arnaud contemporary art 123 Kennington Road, London SE11 6SF Hai Gallery 46a Harrowby Street, Marble Arch, London W1H 5HTHalcyon Gallery 24 Bruton Street, London W1J 6QQ

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