My Highlights from Art Stage Singapore 2014
Art Stage Singapore is a great opportunity for seeing Southeast Asian artworks and artists. Through their work, I’m excited to experience the true meaning of “We Are Asia,” the slogan of the fair.
It is a common sensitivity among Asians to find simple pleasures in our everyday life. The beauty and astonishment from a chance encounter, in an improbable place or situation, makes us consider what Le Comte de Lautréamont once described as “beautiful as the chance meeting on a dissecting-table of a sewing-machine and an umbrella!”.
These wonderful works show such an idea, simply and strongly, in a contemporary way.
My Selection:
Chen Qiulin, The Hundred Surnames in Tofu, 2004-2014, at A Thousand Plateaus Art Space
Krissakorn Thinthupthai, Nature Of Aberration, 2012, at Arataniurano
FX Harsono, The Raining Bed, 2013, at Arndt
Chen Wei, Coins #4, 2012, at Ben Brown Fine Arts
Mark Justiniani, Ecopraxia, 2013, at The Drawing Room
Keiichi Tanaami, The Bridge to Another World, 2011, at Nanzuka
Yayoi Kusama, Flowers That Bloom Tomorrow, 2011, at Ota Fine Arts
Haegue Yang, Non-folding - Geometric Tipping #39, 2012, at Singapore Tyler Print Institute
Shooshie Sulaiman, Installation view from “Sulaiman itu Melayu / Sulaiman was Malay”, 2013, at Tomio Koyama Gallery
Manit Kantasak, Milky Way, 2013, at whitesp-cegallery
Portrait by Yoko Asakai, 2010
