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ARTS&LEISURE
July14
WALL
What’s on in Singapore’s
art galleries this month
Get Intimate
Back for its fourth edition, the
Art Apart Fair
will feature over 2,000 works from a selection of
emerging international artists, with a particular
focus on Russian artists this time around. Known
for its more cosy, unconventional setting – 33
guest rooms and suites on the fourteenth
floor of the Parkroyal on Pickering hotel will
be converted to “home art galleries” – the fair
is designed to let collectors view artworks in a
more intimate context. The three-day event will
include an art auction and a lucky draw, as well
as talks by experts, performance art and live
painting by a Russian character artist. 18 to 20
July at Parkroyal on Pickering, 3 Upper Pickering
Street. Tickets are $10 from
artapartfair.com
.
Mixed Media Madness
Singapore Art Museum’s (SAM) exhibition,
Medium
at Large: Shapeshifting Material and Methods
in Contemporary Art
, explores some of the most
fundamental aspects of modern art – its making and our
understanding of it – as well as the wealth of materials
with which contemporary artworks can be created, and the
shifting nature of media as genres begin to merge with one
another. From traditional media like oil painting, drawing,
photography and sculpture to more eccentric materials
like whitening soap, bullet shells and human hair – and
“dematerialised” media such as sound, language and
text – the exhibit probes and ponders the fluid, and often
Modern Art Mash-up
Curated by Singaporean June Yap, Guggenheim UBS
Map Curator for South and Southeast Asia,
No Country:
Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia
features 19 thought-provoking works across various
Contemporary Art
media – including painting, sculpture, photography
and video – by 16 diverse artists and collectives from
11 countries such as Bangladesh, Cambodia, India,
Singapore and Vietnam, among others. The acclaimed
exhibition was first presented last year at the Solomon
R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, before showing
at the Asia Society Hong Kong Center, as part of
the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative, a
multi-year collaboration that charts contemporary art
practice in three geographic regions, and encompasses
residencies, international touring exhibitions, audience-
driven education programming and acquisitions for the
Guggenheim’s permanent collection. See it until 20 July
at the Centre for Contemporary Art, Block 43 Malan
Road, Gillman Barracks.
gillmanbarracks.com/cca
obscure, nature of art. See it until May 2015 at SAM, 71
Bras Basah Road.
singaporeartmuseum.sg