In the Cleft of the Rock 岩石裂縫｜Boo Sze Yang & Tay Bak Chiang｜Pontone Gallery Taiwan

This exhibition brings together two Singaporean artists who have developed distinctive painting styles in their approach to represent the landscape. The environment where the artists live has a direct impact on their senses, their emotions, their relationships with nature and wider culture. Being a tiny island city-state constantly in a state of construction and renewal, the notion of development and progress has given rise to a long-standing dilemma regarding solutions on modern living and the impact it has on the natural environment. The works in this exhibition attempt to capture nature, not only as they experience it – magnificent, enchanting, unpredictable – but to immerse in its whole and to engage the viewer in a contemporary interpretation of their environment’s ongoing transformation through paintings.