Fable

Organised & Presented by Alliance Francaise

This exhibition looks at how urban artists interpret fables and folklores in various contexts. We cannot run away from the stories that are told centuries before and how, at times, we apply our thoughts and daily routines to some of the tales we learned as children. After all, fables and tales do have a message of morality.

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Moon, The Eternal Symbol

Aesthetic Awakening 4

By Vidhya Gnana Gouresan



What is art without symbolism? A simple stroke of paint on canvas, in its own right, is a symbol of the artist's emotional state. The moon, an enchanting gift of nature, has been a much-loved object of creative inspiration for poets and painters for many centuries. The moon is indeed an enigmatic symbol of magic in the legends and beliefs of many cultures across the globe. Its periodic waning is related to intoxication and consequent danger. The image of the moon can be spotted in the day-to-day clothing of the Japanese, while the sun's image is reserved for military wear. The lunar cycle is also associated with the physiological cycle of a woman.

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Our Great Artists

by DLR Gallery

It's official! Our pioneer and great artists are Cheong Soo Pieng, Chen Wen Hsi, Georgette Chen, Liu Kang and Cheng Chong Swee. I should add our Chinese calligrapher Tsue Ta Ti and the educator and founder of the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Lim Hak Tai. It's unanimous from all quarters of the artistic community. These are our important artists who deserve our recognition and respect.

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The rise of Chinese avantgarde & Songzhuang Village Artists

I.N. Art Gallery LLP

By Nikolaj T.M. Petersen



The past two decades have seen no less than a revolution in artistic production coming from People's Republic of China. Many of the initiators of this radical departure from the preceding state-controlled and politically-driven art have worked and lived under the last days of the very system they broke away from. A fair bit of the merit for the change has to be awarded to these radical artists, because it was partly through their persistent avant-garde ways that the tight political control finally loosened.

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Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989)

Salvador Dali was born on May 11, 1904, in the Spanish town of Figueras. The son of a prosperous notary, Dali spent his boyhood in Figueras and at the family's summer home in the coastal fishing village of Cadaques where his parents built his first studio. As an adult, he made his home with his wife Gala in nearby Port Lligat. Many of his paintings reflect his love of this area of Spain.

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Dali in Singapore

This September, Singapore will play host to more than just the delegates from the International Monetary Fund with what is turning out to be the art event of the year. On an unprecedented scale, Opera Gallery Singapore will be staging a colossal exhibition of Salvatore Dali's massive sculptures along the republic's renowned retail and financial strip, stretching from Wheelock Place on Orchard Road to UOB Plaza at Raffles Place, making it the only city pulling off the feat since Paris' moment fifteen years ago.

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