Good news!!! This is what have been reported in today ’s Straits Time (Singapore main newspaper)
SINGAPORE: Internationally renowned artist Wu Guanzhong has donated 113 artworks worth an estimated S$66 million to the Singapore Art Museum (SAM).

According to a joint statement by the National Heritage Board and the Singapore Art Museum on Wednesday, Wu’s gift is the highest in donation value that has been made to any museum in Singapore to date.The donation agreement was signed in Beijing on Tuesday, and followed a similar donation of 66 artworks made to the Shanghai Art Museum by the artist earlier this year.

SAM has proposed to collaborate with the Shanghai Art Museum on a retrospective exhibition of Wu’s works.According to Director of SAM, Kwok Kian Chow, the museum will exhibit Wu’s works, which “truly epitomises Asian aesthetic values”, in early 2009.

Kwok said: “Wu Guanzhong’s art practice displays his serious consideration of both formalism and the social grounding of art.”This makes his work different from the Western value of ‘art for art’s sake’, where art becomes a dimension of existence separate from the reality of life.”

This is not the first time Wu has donated his art pieces to Singapore. The artist had donated a piece entitled “Roots” to the city-state back in 1988.Wu said he entrusts his works to SAM as he “trusted the institution in the continued research and exhibitions of the works to make them relevant to the future”.89-year-old Wu is a leading Chinese painter, art educator and essayist who received much recognition in the early 1980s. He has an artistic style that balances formal beauty and the receptivity of the masses.

source:http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/373447/1/.html

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Ten colourful designs graced the walls of the National Museum in a light installation by Sydney-based lighting effects company, The Electric Canvas, which specialises in large-scale light projections on buildings.

The designs are produced by seven projectors. How can we say Singapore is boring? It is trying its best to re invent itself. Stay tuned for more Public Art!

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Can  art merge with architecture? A recent visit to the Singapore Changi Airport Terminal 3 gave me the answer.

To achieve what would be ‘a sense of Singapore’, the Terminal 3 architects proposed a mixture of natural design elements including a five-storey high Green Wall. The wall comprised of a main steel structure holding five rows of horizontal planter boxes connected together with fine stainless steel cables.

The planter boxes contain a variety of climbing and flowering plants, which are punctuated by a series of four cascading glass waterfalls. The base of the wall features a 360m long, 3m high and 3,100-tonne long carved sandstone artwork entitled ‘Rhythms of Nature’. The Green Wall reminds passengers about the tropical environment of Singapore and can be admired from both the Departure and Arrival Halls.

 

 So is the green wall a public art? What makes it so if it is? Give me you opinon…

 

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This is what I read in the Sunday times yesterday. According to Ms Tang Wen Li, the Singapore representative for auction house Christie’ s, the view that art can be a good investment, like equity and fixed income issues, has become popular in recent years.

It was mentioned that in the long run, returns from art are comparable to those from stocks and bonds. The art market is very weakly correlated witht the equilies market, making art useful and valuable if you wish for portfolio diversification.

It was also reported that experts claimed that South east Asian art is fast becoming ‘ the next big thing’, because of the growing interest in modern and contemporary art from this region. (Singapore art included?)

In a Singapore auction in April, Indonesian artist 1 Nyonman Masriadi’ s Me and My Coke sold for $240000 which is more than 5 times its estimated price!!!! That ’s a lot if you ask me. Well, it just goes to tell you that keeping artwork especially those from Southeast Asia might be the way to go.

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I haven been blogging for ages!!!! So sorry guys and I haven been drawing as well. The reason being, I have been busy learning chinese metaphysics art from my masters.

This is another photoshop drawing by my friend Ly. A ‘joker’ without a smile. Does it still make him a ‘joker’ if he can’ t make you smile? I like the eyes, kind of stare in my direction whenever I look at it. However, the think the clothes(rendered black) can be too distracting since the focus point should be the facial expression of the joker. It would be better if the bottom half of the picture can ‘blend’ in with the background. (A point to note will be Mona Lisa). Overall the render is really well done and it does give me an eerie feeling! LOL

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