The Fountain Of Lamneth

A Visual Arts Exploration of a Song

Till 25 May, Gajah Gallery

In the exhibition The Fountain of Lamneth, seven artists explore experimental methodologies in expressing and showcasing art. The lyrics and architectural form of the song The Fountain of Lamneth by rock music group Rush, from the album Caress of Steel 1975 are freely interpreted. The Fountain of Lamneth is often interpreted as a journey of a person, faced with various obstacles throughout his life; starting from his childhood till death.

Through this project, the themes of The Fountain of Lamneth are borrowed as analogies to observe a current inclination in contemporary Indonesian art practice that leads to the excavation of ethereal ideas such as darkness, absurdity, mysticism, immortality, illusionary truth, the conscious mind. 

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Andy Warhol: 15 Minutes Eternal

Beyond 15 minutes of fame

17 Mar – 12 Aug, ArtScience Museum at Marina Bay Sands® 10 Bayfront Avenue

Meet Andy Warhol, the face of Pop Art, at the latest traveling exhibition to open at ArtScience Museum. Andy Warhol: 15 Minute Eternal will open on 17 March with over 260 paintings, drawings, sculptures, film, and video of the legendary artist’s works, marking the first time such an extensive collection is exhibited in Singapore.


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Koort Boodja (Heart Land)

Lindsay HARRIS Solo Exhibition

04 Apr – 19 May, ReDot Fine Art Gallery, 39 Keppel Road #02-06
 
ReDot Fine Art Gallery is honoured to host Lindsay HARRIS’ first ever international solo show – a fitting recognition for a man that has been recently selected as one of the top 20 Indigenous Australian artists and invited to participate in the upcoming exhibition 'unDisclosed: 2nd National Indigenous Art Triennial' to be celebrated at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra just ahead of his exhibition in Singapore.

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A Singaporean in Australia

Boo Sze Yang: Sanctuary

17 Apr – 21 May, Art at St. Francis’, St. Francis' Church, 326 Lonsdale St. (Corner Elizabeth St.), Melbourne 3000, Australia 

Boo Sze Yang’s first solo art exhibition in Melbourne, Australia will feature a selection of paintings from the artist’s House of God and The Mall series. House of God is a body of works that depict the interiors of Cathedrals the artist visited in his travels. The Mall is a collection of paintings of interiors of shopping malls. For Boo, shopping malls are sanctuaries for the modern man and woman.


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Ian Davenport

Between the Lines

11 May – 07 Jul, Art Plural Gallery, 38 Armenian Street, www.artpluralgallery.com
 
“I control liquid, I use colour, and I try to choreograph these different elements together. There’s a lot of internal rigour to the process, but at the same time it is about chance.”    ~ Ian Davenport

Former Turner Prize nominee, Ian Davenport is celebrated for his way of expressing the endless possibilities of abstract art. The artist is recognised for his intense and unconventional painting practice, working with a crescendo of colours orchestrated in rows of lines.

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The Substation Soapbox: Of Flowers and Nude Men

By Tim Zeelie

Handsome: IVSG is a group exhibition featuring 10 artists, each exploring various representations of gender and masculinity. The exhibition has been inspired by the work of Robert Mapplethorpe, and will be shown at The Substation Gallery from 6 – 18 May 2012.


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Lee Wen

Lucid Dreams in the Reverie of the Real

20 Apr – 10 Jun, Singapore Art Museum, 71 Bras Basah Road

Lucid Dreams in the Reverie of the Real is an exhibition of works by LeeWen, a multidisciplinary artist and one of Singapore’s most internationally recognised contemporary artists. His earliest known work in a book entitled A Waking Dream (1981) with texts and drawings preceded the manga generation of today and showed evidence of his inclination in using dreams, metaphor and myth-making to manifest a narrative of our perception of life and reality.

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Trafficking Imagination

Lui Ligio Solo Exhibition

27 Apr – 18 May, Opening Reception: Friday 27 Apr, 3.30 – 6pm
YANG GALLERY Beijing, 3rd Taoci Street, 798, No 4 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100015
 
Liu Liguo’s works represent and reflect a Chinese form of ego, lost within a consumer society, whose principal manifestation is a usual combination of elements particular to modern China – religion, folklore, consumerism, and the image of Mao Zedong. Everything is materially opulent, dripping with sensuality and abundance. 

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Cheong Soo Pieng

A Collection of Sketches by One of Singapore’s Most Celebrated First Generation Artists

30 Apr – 27 May, artcommune gallery, Blk 231, Bain Street, Bras Basah Complex

This exhibition commemorates the 60th anniversary of the 1952 Bali trip made by Cheong Soo Pieng, Chen Wen Hsi, Chen Chong Swee and Liu Kang.

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Dialogue Among Trees

Paintings by Terence Tan & Lynn Lim

By Terence Tan Chee Wah

11 – 27 May, Artists Alliance SG, Blk B, #03-17, Goodman Arts Centre

Dialogue Among Trees is a collaborative showcase by two visual artists, Tan Chee Wah Terence and Lim Li Yin Lynn. Terence paints solely with Chinese ink on rice paper and Lynn creates with mixed media on paper to put together their personal expression of trees in nature.

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Enchanting …

By B. Jane Cowie

In 2008 I had the opportunity to create an art glass installation at HarbourFront Place (near Vivo City) Singapore. It was one of the first major artworks I designed and created for a public space.  Previously my arts practice focused on plinth and/or wall pieces for exhibitions in galleries. For larger projects it is important to discuss and present my ideas to the client and find the most suitable art concept for the space. Still it is the physicality of the material and the making that I really love. 

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Creating Changes

Art As Way of Knowing

By Theresa Ng

Poet and philosopher George Santayana once said “An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world”. What is this actual world that we live in? Do we have the consent to live how we dream of it to be? With art as means of conveying, does this make artists the realists in this world because they are able to communicate in a language of their ideas, aspirations, dreams and emotions?

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Illucynation

Opening the Mind’s Eye To Sophie’s World

Till 02 Jul, tcc - The Connoisseur Concerto “The Gallery” 51 Circular Road

Three talented Singapore-based artists, Sarah Bridget, Rudy Djoharnaen and Erzan Adam  display their abstract illustrations based on the popular philosophical Norwegian novel ‘Sophie’s World’ by Jostein Gaarder.


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Buddha Meets Ganesha

An Aesthetic Congregation of Two Global Icons

03 – 16 May, The Gallery of Gnani Arts, #01-17, Tanglin Shopping Centre

This much-anticipated exhibition salutes to two immensely dynamic genres (art depicting Ganesha and art depicting the Buddha) that possess an appeal that is massive and absolutely international, with an undeniable influence over the art market and the heritage sector, regardless of one’s religious or racial affiliation. Indeed, this rare aesthetic congregation commands an objective perspective from the inquisitive viewer.


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