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| Real installation, that looks like 3D image |
ArtStage Singapore 2013 - main art galleries exhibition of the year in Asia just finished on the 27th of January, giving art connoisseurs idea of tendencies, that are going to drive art in nearest future. Personally I took five hours on Saturday for a pleasant non rush walk around pavilions in Marina May Sands Conventional Centre to make my opinion, talk to the artists and gallerists, hear visitors expressing their emotions and just to please my eyes, surprise myself and to adore artists, who have so much imagination to create some outstanding and unexpected pieces.
Here is some of my thoughts:
The main thing, that caught my eyes, was numerous cases of artists corrupting human faces, emphasizing impersonality of the character, but at the same time showing, strong emotions, that every one, who sees works, could almost inherit and experience the feelings of human shown at works. Perversions of the faces are so strong, that accent giving you the image of human mass and unimportance of personal features in today society.
Other leading tendency is playing with human eyes and vision, putting multiple meanings in works, that can be seen literary from different angles. Today it strengthened with the digital technologies, that allow usage of 3D effects, digital installations, visualization to create art. TV screens, mechanisms, computer codes and programs, everything is used to amaze, impress and please eyes. Painting of mobile device home screen with pictures from vacations showing our everyday life is framed within digital world, that we can't escape even for a beach.
Latest technologies, mobile devises and consumer electronics products also become topic for art exploration. Some of artists are going towards criticizing human addictions to products, especially luxury brands, showing how those can be destroyed and changed to become art pieces, challenging consumer oriented society. Artists also go against office rules, measured machine regulations, for example putting snake under one of the tables in command center or lama in office space.
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| Porcelain in unusual form |
The question, where individual stays in modern world and society, is in trends for decades. In most of the cases artists try to show, how small and insignificant is every human being today. Pile of clay human heads one alike other on the floor or endless rows of street facades with cafe and shops one on another. Some post communistic times artists are tend to speak ironically, showing unpleasant sides of the past.
As a pleasant variety among tendencies, there were Marc Chagal, Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol works exhibited and, of course, some of artists, who work with nudity and on the border with erotic.
Institute of Contemporary Arts Director Dr Charles Merewether highlighted couple of artists during his guiding tour on Saturday afternoon: simplicity of wall wooden installations by Kishio Suga, whose works are influenced by the time, when Japan was rebuilding after atom bombs of The Second World War. Lovely and bogging attention mixer of lines and color highlights at paintings by Ian Woo, at whose pieces you can stare hours just following lines and still finding new details and ideas. Simplicity and death of colors in paintings by
Luke Heng, last year student of Institute of Contemporary Arts, that is part of
Lasalle College of Arts Singapore. Genius ability of Italian
Jannis Kounellis to combine general objects giving putting new meaning to whole composition and representing Poverty Art and introducing it to "high" society. Generally, Dr Merewether's highlights were about simplicity of genial art pieces.
PHUNK "Empire of Dreams" solo-exhibition opening @ Art Seasons on the 25th of January
The First Hotel Art Fair in Singapore @ Conrad Continental Hotel on the 25th - 27th January
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| Face pукvertions, but strong emotions... Pain... |
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| We are what is surrounding us... Feeling of dilution |
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| Scaring naturalism |
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| Metal stains illusion |
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| Life framed in home screen, Lasarev Gallery, St, Petersburg, Russia |
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Life is a moment: "Don't forget to buy milk",
Lasarev Gallery, St, Petersburg, Russia |
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| Pile of Human alike |
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| Against office rules |
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| Art on Samsung TV screens |
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| Post Soviet Union thoughts, by Russian artist, 11.12 Gallery, Russia, Singapore |
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Simplicity by Japanese Kishio Suga
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| Deep colors by Luke Heng, Lasalle College of Arts |
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| Poverty Art by Italian Jannis Kounellis |
