Voices
Art historian Michael Peppiatt, occasionally relates an anecdote of his time at Cambridge, studying art history in the 1960s. Briefly summarised, the curriculum didn’t think much of anything after the Renaissance, viewing everything since as a long, slow decline from that glorious golden age, a ...
Posted: February 3rd, 2016
Voices
The exploration of boundaries is an endeavour that many have tried their hand at in this age of literacy. During the Renaissance period, clear and defined boundaries were created to compartmentalize different categories and movements of art. For example, the Impressionists followed a guideline of ...
Posted: February 3rd, 2016
Category: Voices
Voices
Acclaimed American artist Peter Halley’s distinctive geometric paintings are visual icons of the unprecedented physical isolation and oppression that characterize our urbanized and digitalized age. His minimalist iconography of cellblocks connected by conduit motifs evokes post-industrial ...
Posted: February 3rd, 2016
Category: Voices
Voices
With her dramatic technique and a talent for storytelling, Adriana Molder has crafted a strong reputation as a profound, through-provoking artist. Born in Lisbon in 1975, Molder has had a penchant for drama and cinema since her youth. This initially lead her to the theatre, where she completed a ...
Posted: February 3rd, 2016
Category: Exhibitions, Voices
Voices
After decades of travel and observation, Malaysian-born but Singaporean-based photographer and filmmaker Sherman Ong has built a strong rhetoric on the theme of origin, migration and diaspora. His own experience of migration came fairly early, when as a teenager he was uprooted from his home in ...
Posted: February 3rd, 2016
Voices
Traditional Miniature painting (title photo) traces its lineage to Mughal India, Iran and Turkey and continues to be practised there today but it has evolved into a new genre in Pakistan with its own identity and aesthetics. Known as contemporary miniature painting or neo-miniature, this ...
Posted: February 3rd, 2016
Voices
Our world is a vastly interconnected one. It’s almost a truism, by now, after decades of being inundated with promises of the transformative potential of globalisation and network technologies. Across the political spectrum, expressed in various art forms, interpretations and predictions ...
Posted: February 3rd, 2016
Voices
Two thoughts underlie the project, Messages From Another World: on one hand, the realization that space is not empty, but a universe teeming with life that is invisible to ordinary sense perception and on the other, the realization that there are universals common to all humankind. The Swiss are a ...
Posted: February 3rd, 2016
Category: Exhibitions, Voices
Voices
When Hong Kong was taken over by China in 1997, Margaret Thatcher negotiated with Deng Xiaoping in order to smooth the transition and keep some British marks and traditions that had accompanied the people in Hong Kong. “One China, Two Systems” is a constitutional principle formulated by Deng ...
Posted: February 3rd, 2016
Category: Voices
Voices
When it comes to French artist Fabienne Verdier, a single brush stroke is all it takes to make a compelling work of art. A single well-mediated, perfectly executed, and precisely-positioned brushstroke which is a result of over three decades of contemplation and practise. Verdier’s grand canvases ...
Posted: February 3rd, 2016
Category: Voices
Voices
Born in 1961, American artists and identical twins Doug and Mike Starn were primarily known for working conceptually with photography, and are concerned largely with chaos, interconnection and interdependence. They have continued to defy categorization, effectively combining traditionally ...
Posted: February 3rd, 2016
Category: Exhibitions, Voices
Voices
At the age of 69, Chun Kwang Young is today internationally recognized as an artist who has been seeking the essence of his home country, Korea, to infuse it onto the social and political contradictions expressed by the Abstract Expressionist statement. In his work, Chun Kwang Young creates small ...
Posted: February 3rd, 2016
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