Gala Dinner, Charity Auction & Awards SANDS Expo and Convention Centre Level 3, Jasmine Ballroom Marina Bay Sands
18 January 2020 Singapore
Organised by Art Outreach MESSAGE FROM MARINA BAY SANDS
2020 is an especially important year for Marina Bay Sands, during which we celebrate our 10th anniversary.
From day one in Singapore, we have taken our responsibility to the community seriously. Through our flagship CSR programme Sands for Singapore, we support many meaningful causes, with a particular focus on youth, education and the arts. This commitment is fulfilled through partnerships with like-minded organisations such as Art NOW TILL 5 APR 2020 Outreach, with which we have worked closely for the past decade.
Organisations such as Art Outreach adopt innovative approaches to help nurture emerging artists and curators. One such example is the IMPART Awards, which we are proud to support as gala dinner venue host for the third year.
At Marina Bay Sands, we are doing our part to help instill a love for the arts in Singapore. Some large-scale art installations can be found around our property, for example, forming an Art Path which gives individuals of all ages the opportunity to get up close to art. ArtScience in Focus at ArtScience Museum also gives creative talents the opportunity to showcase their work to a wider audience. This January, the Museum is presenting a series of in-gallery art interventions, featuring the works of Yanyun Chen and Priyageetha Dia, who were among the winners in 2019’s IMPART Awards.
The arts is an important area that we will continue to support and champion in the years ahead. Allow me to congratulate all the winners in this year’s IMPART Awards, with best wishes for much success in your artistic careers. Explore the possible futures of Singapore 200 years from now. #SG2219 Free entry to 2219: Futures Imagined Mr George Tanasijevich MarinaBaySands.com/ArtScienceMuseum for all students from local institutions. President and Chief Executive Officer, Marina Bay Sands
Supported by: Co-produced with: MESSAGE FROM IMPART AWARDS CHAIRMAN
Going strong in our third year running, the IMPART Awards show no sign of slowing down. What is highlighted in immediacy from all who we have interacted with over the years is a collective spirit––not only a need but also a want—to support the future of of our local arts ecology.
Acknowledging the necessity to encourage stellar creatives on their journey, the IMPART Awards was initiated in 2017. This colossal journey has been comprised of sheer effort, sweat, and tears. Above all, it has shown us that we still have a long way ahead of us. Of learning, of adapting, of growth, and of being a cause that is reliable for the culture of arts in Singapore.
The cliches of saying that it would not have been possible without your support will remain true for the years ahead. The support you generously provide goes further than you know, not only to fostering the growth of aspiring artists, but also goes towards educating our youths from the ground up.
I continue to be humbled by the collective spirit that surrounds the IMPART Awards. There is a resilience within it that allows us the opportunity to be where we are now, year after year. I look forward to growing our cause, to new interactions, to motivating the future of our creatives. Thank you.
Jackson See IMPART Awards Chairman MESSAGE FROM THE ART OUTREACH BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Since we launched the IMPART Awards in 2017, Art Outreach has experienced an Art Outreach’s array of programmes expresses exhilarating pace of expansion with respect to our mission. Complementing our our unwavering belief in the promise that art holds core classroom and public art education programmes are not only the IMPART for society. These offerings require heartfelt effort Awards, but also the IMPART Collectors’ Show, now in its third edition. We also and collaboration between a diverse gamut of launched the Art Encounters initiative, featuring a mobile artist’s studio, gallery, stakeholders. Please look through this book and and public engagement space housed in repurposed shipping containers. Art around the room this evening to appreciate the Encounters will travel to unique sites around Singapore for three years. This endeavors of all who have contributed. foray beyond our core programmes marks our intensified commitment to the local arts community as we look to support art practitioners, create collaboration Many among you are here to support not only the opportunities for different art stakeholders, and bring robust art education IMPART Awards, but also our broader mission, as programming to an even broader audience. you have been our stalwart patrons and friends since the beginning of Art Outreach’s journey in 2003. We Embracing larger ambitions stems from our unwavering belief in the importance of are privileged to earn your support year after year, visual literacy and the value of art appreciation. In this digital age, the dominance and are delighted to also have new friends that have of scientific disciplines has pulled focus from education in the humanities. While come to encourage our mission. The Art Outreach the sciences pave the way for significant advances throughout our civilisation, team is committed to keep doing our best to make cultural expression is critical for creating discourse and understanding between your generosity count! communities. The arts are where differences are accepted and embraced as essential. Art breaks down cultural, social and economic barriers, and helps to create common ground that can launch productive collaboration. Art encourages us to cherish intuition and creativity, while also spurring new perspectives, ideas, Art Outreach Board of Directors and even action. Art opens up new pathways to understanding and engaging with Mae Anderson, Claudia Cellini, Audrey Phng, the world around us. Asa Tucker, Kaori Zage ABOUT THE IMPART AWARDS
IMPART AWARDS 2020 FINALISTS
Organised by Art Outreach, a non-profit organisation that promotes visual literacy in ARTISTS CURATORS Singapore, the IMPART Awards recognises and rewards promising emerging artists Ang Song Nian Syaheedah Iskandar and curators by providing them critical early stage support in their careers through exchange programmes and opportunities to produce, exhibit and showcase their Genevieve Chua Zulkhairi Zulkiflee work. We believe that the IMPART Awards has the capacity to play a critical role Debbie Ding not just in supporting emerging art talents, but also in building awareness and Gerald Leow appreciation of Singapore art and art practitioners. The international programme with renowned institutions and the mentorship of established practitioners will Faris Nakamura offer invaluable exposure to the emerging artistic and curatorial talents inthe development of their careers, both locally and internationally. More importantly, these Awards lend much needed support towards sustaining these individuals in their chosen careers in art. IMPART AWARDS 2020 - FINALIST ARTIST Ang Song Nian
My education and practice has always been deeply rooted in photography. However, in recent years, I have found my works crossing over to site-specific installations. This may be a result of the way I produce my works, in which I believe in the importance of the artist’s presence and intervention, despite being confined to the composition on the ground glass of a camera. The action of arranging objects evokes a key word in my practice––control. The tension that is brought about through the way we control and manipulate Nature, is pivotal in my practice.
The IMPART Award will contribute significantly to the scale and ambition that I have for my works and planned exhibitions to come. Apart from the financial support, I am confident that the award will bring about career building opportunities and visibility for my works. Through the international exchange programme, I aim to study the various avenues of which artists in other countries adopt to sustain their practices through representation, sales, promotion and publicity, as well as the impact of various networks crucial for residency, exhibition and research opportunities. Most importantly, to explore possibilities in which to help contribute to the improvement of our local arts infrastructure through programming and exhibition possibilities.
Selection of submitted artworks:
Artificial Conditions: Something to Grow Into, 2019 10,000 biodegradable plant pots
As They Grow Older And Wiser, 2016 Photography and installation Image © art4d magazine - Napat Charitbutra
IMPART AWARDS 2020 - FINALIST ARTIST Genevieve Chua
I am a painter who works primarily through abstraction. I research into the painter’s process through the use of diagram, palimpsest, syntax and the glitch.
I would like to further the discourse of studio practice in Singapore through moderating talks and lectures with other artists to familiarise art patrons and publics with the process of labour and production that takes place in the studio before the work enters a finished state in the museums and galleries. I feel a great importance and obligation to pursue this manner of art education to expand the vocabulary of the kinds of art production that take place today, with new technologies, materials coupled with heightened and brief attention spans.
The IMPART Award will allow me to connect with other art-makers, collaborators and curators to broaden perspectives of modes of intervention and presentation of studio practice and my personal practice. While I have had experiences to immerse in Southeast Asian and UK art communities, I have yet to find an opportunity to acquaint myself with the New York scene, culture and artist research community. The experience will allow me to commit to learning and experimenting with programmes to develop in Singapore and the region.
Selection of submitted artworks:
Closed During Opening Hours, 2019 Installation Acrylic on linen, wooden ramps, ceramic tiles, vinyl sticker
Edge Control #25, Hard Diplomacy, 2018 60 x 42 cm Acrylic on linen, shaped canvas
IMPART AWARDS 2020 - FINALIST ARTIST Debbie Ding
I am interested in the technologies of perception and exploring emerging technologies as well as obsolete visual technologies in my work. Using different processes from my background as a writer and interactive designer, I produce art objects and immersive installations which investigate different histories and geographies–in the pursuit of new knowledge. I’m committed to making a real difference in the area of new media arts by experimenting with new mediums to produce work in, and sharing my process and knowledge––a spirit of sharing is something we need more of in Singapore.
I envision that the IMPART Award will give me the opportunity and resources to develop new work, to showcase my work to a wider audience, and also to give me exposure to new opportunities in the US, which I have never travelled to before. The international exchange programme would enable me to visit galleries and museums in New York, and to meet and connect with other like-minded artists, curators, and potential collaborators.
Selection of submitted artworks:
Red Landscape, 2018 Digital vinyl print
Sub-Monument, 2019 Digital lasercut (wood)
IMPART AWARDS 2020 - FINALIST ARTIST Gerald Leow
My personal goals as an artist is centred around the maturation of ideas that I had started on five years ago. After cultivating a foundation and an artistic language, I am working towards a unification of ideas centred on the relationship between culture, the human body and architecture. Having worked with different materials and works of various scale over the years, I now feel ready for my ideas to take shape and projects to be realised fully.
My goal is to be able to find a sustainable model of studio practice with the right balance of size and configuration. I believe I am closer to that now, having better knowledge of what does and does not work, what is necessary for my practice and what are distractions.
The IMPART Award would make this possible, and expose more people to my work and practice. The exchange programme with fellow professionals can also provide invaluable insight into my own work. Having a chance to visit New York, one of the largest cultural centres of the world, would also be a great experience to widen my understanding.
Selection of submitted artworks:
Slayer, 2011 Found Shiva copper sculpture, copper plates
Harvest, 2018 Recycled pine and birch wood 470 x 300 × 300 cm Singapore Art Museum commission
IMPART AWARDS 2020 - FINALIST ARTIST Faris Nakamura
In my four years of professional artistic practice thus far, I have been working primarily with the mediums of wood and concrete. Through numerous solo and group exhibitions, I have overcome technical issues of construction, colour, and paint finishing to achieve a fine resolution that I am satisfied with.
I am now ready to venture into the next phase of my artistic career, where I am motivated to learn new knowledge and skills in working with other materials like steel and fiberglass, as well as paint finishing processes that utilize machines and special tools. I also hope to relocate to a larger studio with proper facilities and ventilation, which would greatly enhance the quality of my artworks.
With the IMPART Award, I aim to take a three-month sabbatical from work to be a dedicated full-time artist to achieve the aforementioned goals. As a visual artist living in an urban cosmopolitan environment, I’m constantly curious about the tectonics of space in relation to its functional uses and architectural design. By experiencing the international exchange programme to New York (my first trip to the US), I believe that I will gain new stimulus and reference points outside of Singapore and Asia.
Selection of submitted artworks:
In A Place of the Impalpable/ Remember This Place, For We Will Be Back Here Again Someday, 2019 Matt enamel on treated wood, acrylic, metal
Somewhere Between Not Yet And No Longer/ The Camouflaged Man: Invisibility & Mimicry, 2019 Matt enamel on treated wood, acrylic, metal
IMPART AWARDS 2020 - FINALIST CURATOR Syaheedah Iskandar
Since 2008, I have been involved in our nation’s art scene in various capacities as a volunteer, writer, curator, arts administrator, and even as a DJ. Curating for me, is about telling stories, especially marginalised, invisible, unseen ones. My current focus stems from my ongoing research in reading visual culture within the paradigm of Southeast Asia––a seed cultivated through my fellowship with academic journal Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia.
The IMPART Award will provide the opportunity for me to do better as an artist agent. It will allow me to establish ground-up initiatives and develop long-term curatorial projects with a distinct trajectory that I can call my own. Being a recipient of the award will be pertinent in developing my research as well as my voice as a curator––one who is critical and thoroughly engaged in serving the visual arts community.
The opportunity to visit New York is also timely considering my interest in the study of visual culture. Exposure to one of the most culturally diverse cities in the world will enrich me in learning new forms of art technologies and curatorial practices outside of Southeast Asia, which will be indispensable in driving the direction of my voice.
Selection of submitted installations:
Nyanyi Sunyi (Songs of Solitude) 4–25 February 2018 Members Berbincang - Artist Talk: Round-Tikar Discussions, documentation and exhibition view, 4 Feb 2018, organised as part of exhibition public programmes.
If Home was a word for Illusion The Substation, 20 April–1 May 2016 Charmaine Poh, Room (2016), Photography on archival fine art print with handwritten letters, Installation view. Courtesy the artist.
IMPART AWARDS 2020 - FINALIST CURATOR Zulkhairi Zulkiflee
Receiving the IMPART Award would signal an openness for curators like myself whose practices are in the intersection of art making and curation. My goal is to spearhead a culture of interdisciplinary practices where curators and artists are allowed to apply different sets of skills in their profession. I am a believer that the only obstacle is the absence of opportunity.
I see the IMPART Awards as a crucial gesture in mobilizing bolder ideas in experimental curation. This would give greater attention to experimental projects that are pertinent in diversifying the art scene in Singapore.
I hope to be perpetually present and immerse myself in the speed and innovation of New York. My learning objective is to keep an open mind and analyse the trends overseas, hopefully, applying them in a local context.
Selection of submitted installations:
MAT Objectifs - Centre for Photography & Film 2 August–1 September 2019 Featuring Farizi Noorfauzi
RAID Tiong Bahru Air Raid Shelter 13 January–3 February 2018 Featuring Ivan David Ng
KHAIRULLAH RAHIM KAMILIAH BAHDAR JUSTIN LIM YANYUN CHEN PRIYAGEETHA DIA KIMBERLY SHEN ARTIST CURATOR ARTIST ARTIST ARTIST CURATOR IMPART AWARDS JURY The IMPART Awards Jury were challenged by an impressive and highly competitive internationally in France, The Netherlands, Hong Kong, Indonesia, and Singapore. field of applicants. The jury was very pleased with the quality of the applicants’ efforts As a writer, Patricia has penned columns on Southeast Asian art and contributed to and commend each one for their achievements. ArtAsiaPacific, Financial Times, The Art Newspaper and Flash Art.
We thank the distinguished members of our Jury for their commitment and gracious Catherine David support of the IMPART Awards. Deputy Director Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou Catherine David is a French art historian, curator and museum director. David was the first woman and the first non-German speaker to curate documenta X in Kassel, Germany. David is currently deputy director of the National Museum of Modern Art at the Centre Georges Pompidou.
Honor Harger Tan Boon Hui - Jury Chair Executive Director Vice President, ArtScience Museum Global Arts & Cultural Programs and Director Honor Harger is the Executive Director for ArtScience Museum at Marina Bay Sands. Asia Society Museum A curator from New Zealand, she has a strong interest in artistic uses of technologies Boon Hui Tan is Vice President for Global Arts & Cultural Programs and Director, Asia and in science as part of culture. Harger brings with her over 15 years of experience of Society Museum, New York, where he leads the organisation’s global arts and cultural working at the intersection between art, science and technology. activities. He oversees Asia Society Museum’s acclaimed exhibition programs and the Russell Storer Asia Society Museum Collection, which comprises the Mr and Mrs John D Rockefeller Director, Curatorial & Collections 3rd Collection of Traditional Asian Art and the Contemporary Art. National Gallery Singapore Patricia Chen Russell Storer is Director (Curatorial & Collections) at National Gallery Singapore. He Art Writer and Filmmaker was previously Head of Asian and Pacific Art at the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Patricia Chen is a writer with a camera and she points it at a subject close to her heart Modern Art in Brisbane, and a curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. A : visual art. Her series of independent films on leading art collections and collectors, co-curator of the 3rd Singapore Biennale (2011), he has also written widely on Asian Uli Sigg: China’s Art Missionary and The 24-Hour Art Practice, have been screened and Australian contemporary art.
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SARA MAO Director for Christie’s Education Asia IMPART AWARDS 2020 - CHARITY AUCTION IMPART AWARDS 2020 - CHARITY AUCTION Kanchana Gupta Artwork Description
Kanchana Gupta (b. 1974, India) is an artist of Indian These two works are part of the Compressed@ series and offer a visceral and studied origin who lives and works in Singapore. She works response to the complexity of various forms of compression, physical, emotional or time; with paint, installation and mixed media supports and associated with urban milieus and existence. Created through a combination of studio has shown her works in three solo exhibitions and in and industrial processes, they function as metaphors of the felt urban ‘compression’ many group exhibitions in Singapore and beyond. She and as material manifestations of subliminal experiences and reflections. completed an MA in Fine Arts from LASALLE College of Arts, Singapore where she was the recipient of Dr The key material in the works is oil paint applied on quotidian urban materials like Winston Oh Travel Research Award. tarpaulin and jute, which is then burnt and peeled off to create paint strips. Layered, affixed, ripped, torn, peeled and burnt, large volumes of these strips are subjected to Kanchana’s works are often not only poetic and manual duress in the studio and subsequently in an industrial setting, where they are sensuously painterly but also sculptural and object- condensed into dense, solid blocks. based in nature as she manipulates the materiality of oil paint through multi-step processes and combines The process transmutes paint into sculptural forms, to reflect the process of labour, it with various social materials like jute and tarpaulin, compression of time and conditions of production, synonymous with urban settings. revealing to the viewer not just visual, but emotional Subsequently, sculptures are manually cut open to expose the level of compression, complexities. Her works are not only an investigation as if they are marks of the accumulated experiences as well as to talk about labour of the behaviour of oil paint—to curl, crack, fold, tear, as an essential condition of production. The materials themselves and the industrial fragment, compress and leave residues but also the processes they are put through, are a testimonial to use and disuse, ends and means, spatial interaction of the occurring folds, cracks, and presence and absence. tears. Her practice and works deploy materials and processes as a metaphor, as if they are a conscious manifestation of subconscious observations and experiences.
Her works are in institutional collection in Singapore and in private collections in Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Japan and the US. LOT FOR AUCTION
KANCHANA GUPTA Compressed and cut _004 and Compressed and cut _005 (The pair), 2019
Compressed oil paint skins burnt and stripped off tarpaulin surfaces and cut manually 12.5 x 50 x 20 cm each SGD 9,000 IMPART AWARDS 2020 - CHARITY AUCTION IMPART AWARDS 2020 - CHARITY AUCTION Han Sai Por Artwork Description
Han Sai Por (b. 1943, Singapore) is one of This work is from the artist’s Black Forest Series of drawings that comments on the Asia’s leading modern sculptors and a recipient bleak consequences of deforestation. Executed in charcoal, the monochromatic of Singapore’s Cultural Medallion award. scene captures the artist’s powerful sense of dread surrounding the destruction Her education in Fine Arts and Landscape of the forest, in the hopes of raising awareness of its conservation. It depicts both Architecture established her strong knowledge abstract and figurative tree branches and barks in a stark landscape, evoking a and understanding of nature and its environments, mournful and poignant sense of devastation that is rooted in the artist’s love of the which greatly influences her work. land.
Han has participated in numerous international exhibitions and projects around the world, and her works can be found in the collections of many international institutions and public spaces and private collections, such as National Gallery Singapore, Singapore Art Museum, National Museum of China, Australia Parliament, Chancery LOT FOR AUCTION of the Permanent Mission of Singapore to the United Nations in New York, Singapore Embassy in HAN SAI POR Washington DC, The Istana Singapore, and Changi Black Forest Series, 2005 Airport Terminal 3. Charcoal on watercolor paper 133 x 149 cm 164.5 x 181 cm (framed) SGD 15,000
IMPART AWARDS 2020 - CHARITY AUCTION Artwork Description
This sculpture is from the artist’s Flora Series that is inspired by the sensual forms of flora hidden in the tropical rainforest. Meticulously carved out of white Sichuan marble stone slabs, the soft and fluid lines and forms reflects Han’s skill in carving out elegant forms from hard materials in a labour-intensive process. This work was first shown in the exhibition Black Forest 2013 at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, which brought together a selection of drawings, paintings and sculpture to present the conceptual and physical dimensions of Han’s distinctive ideas and unique expression.
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HAN SAI POR Flora Series, 2013
Sichuan white marble 43 x 35 x 55 cm SGD 38,000 - 40,000 IMPART AWARDS 2020 - CHARITY AUCTION IMPART AWARDS 2020 - CHARITY AUCTION Kang Hyung Koo Artwork Description
Kang Hyung Koo (b. 1955, Korea) is one of the Kang Hyung Koo is known for his hyper realistic portraits of iconic personalities most highly-acclaimed contemporary painters in from history such as Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Abraham Lincoln and Marilyn Monroe. the genre of hyperrealism. Koo received his BFA Rendered in Kang’s distinctively larger-than-life scale, this visually imposing in painting from Choong-Ang University, Seoul and portrait of Audrey Hepburn in red is unflinchingly up close and personal, creating a has since become a favoured fixture at art fairs dimension of intimacy. and auction houses. He has exhibited at the 2004 Gwangju Biennale and institutions worldwide, such Kang’s technique comprises composite images, rigorous lighting and anatomical as the Singapore Art Museum, Gwangju Museum studies, the meticulous positioning of each wrinkle, hair and their resulting shadows, of Art, Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art, fabricating the excruciating minutiae of each subject’s visage to construct fictitious Saatchi Gallery London and Seoul Museum of Art. but wholly convincing portraits. Beyond the conventional paintbrush and canvas, The artist lives and works in Seoul, Korea. he uses a wide range of tools including airbrushing, nails, drills, cotton swabs, toothpicks and erasers to create with absolute precision the depth, movement and finish. LOT FOR AUCTION
KANG HYUNG KOO Audrey, 2019
Oil on silk 98.5 x 98.5 cm SGD 20,000 - 22,000 IMPART AWARDS 2020 - CHARITY AUCTION Jin Meyerson
Jin Meyerson (b. 1972, Seoul) is an American artist His paintings have been featured in extensive solo and group exhibitions globally, who currently lives and works in Seoul. including: Zach FeuerGallery, New York; Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris and Hong Kong; Saatchi Gallery London; GalerieNordine Zidoun, Luxembourg; Arario Born in Incheon City in 1972, Meyerson was soon Gallery, Seoul and Cheonan; and Hakgojae Gallery Seoul and Shanghai. adopted into a Jewish-Swedish family from rural Minnesota. He spent his early, formative years Meyerson’s work can be found in numerous public and private collections, including in the American Midwest before pursuing his the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Saatchi Collection, London; education in fine arts, receiving his BFA from the Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels; Dean Valentine Collection, Los Angeles; the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1995, and de la Cruz Collection, Miami; the Speyer Family Collection, New York; the Yuz his MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Foundation, Jakarta and Shanghai; the Taguchi Art Collection, Tokyo; and the Arts in 1997. SANSAB Museum, Bangkok.
Meyerson started his career in the late 90s and soon had his first solo show with LFL Gallery in New York City. He moved to Paris in 2006, where he lived and worked for the next four years, until he was invited by the National Museum of Contemporary Art Korea to attend their prestigious residency in Changdong, Seoul. Since then, Meyerson has lived and worked in different parts of Asia. IMPART AWARDS 2020 - CHARITY AUCTION Artwork Description
BEACON is the most recent culmination of a network of paintings which Meyerson started three years ago. Compositions first come to him in visions, flashes of structure and frequency, and this one came as they often do, while he was laying in bed reflecting on the days’ work done and the days’ work ahead. Meyerson believes that the act of painting is a performative marathon, where breath and heartbeat are slowed down to pull clean crisp lines of detail, and accelerated to apply bruising body blows. He has always wanted to make work that encompass moments of constant transition into a visceral singular point of focus.
The constant search for territories and experiences that have yet to be found and felt, has seen his life and studio and art practice cover three continents, 18 cities and 10 studio moves. While the need for discovery remains the prow, his decades of experience provide a rudder.
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JIN MEYERSON BEACON, 2019
Oil on canvas 150 x 204 cm SGD 35,000 - 45,000 IMPART AWARDS 2020 - CHARITY AUCTION IMPART AWARDS 2020 - CHARITY AUCTION Lionel Sabatté Artwork Description
Lionel Sabatté (b. 1975, France) is a multi-disciplinary Lionel Sabatté created this sculpture live on Orchard Road in January 2020 as part of his artist who practices in drawing, painting and sculpture. residency for Art Outreach’s inaugural Art Encounters programme. It is a continuation of Since graduating from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure a series of sculptures first created in June 2019 when the artist was invited to live and des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 2003, he has received work inside Bédeilhac, a UNESCO-protected cave in France which contains exquisite several artistic prizes such as the Beijing Yishu 8 Prize examples of Palaeolithic painting and sculpture. Responding to the rich history of his in 2011, the Drawing Now Prize in 2017 and the Les surroundings, Sabatté sculpted several human figures and a single goat out of concrete, Amis de la Maison Rouge - Fondation Antoine de echoing the forms that were made by hands over 20,000 years ago. During his recent Galbert Award in 2018. His work has been the subject residency in Singapore, Sabatté brought his project full circle by sculpting a family of numerous solo exhibitions in France and abroad, of prehistoric goats, to which this kid belongs. The sculpture is made of concrete, a incorporating several institutional collections. material he feels best encapsulates the concept of “construction”. This building material has played a vital role in the development of human civilisation from the ancient world to As an artist, Sabatté is intrigued by our relationship today’s mega cities, thereby connecting the sculpture to the ever-progressing present with the living world, and the transformation of matter and to humankind’s storied past. through time. For several years now, the artist has undertaken a process of collecting materials often discarded by society that nonetheless preserve traces of our living experience including dust, ashes, charcoal, dead skin and tree stumps. He unexpectedly combines these materials to create delicate and poetic beings. Some of his most iconic works include a group of large goats made entirely of Pu’er tea in Beijing, and a pack of wolves made of dust for the National History Museum in Paris, which has become an emblematic work for questions related to environmental issues. LOT FOR AUCTION
LIONEL SABATTÉ Petit bouc du future (Little goat from the future), 2020
Cement, vegetal fibres and pigments 60 x 52 x 25 cm SGD 9,000 (Image is for reference only, actual artwork was not created yet at time of print.) IMPART AWARDS 2020 - CHARITY AUCTION IMPART AWARDS 2020 - CHARITY AUCTION Wu Kuan Te Artwork Description
Wu Kuan Te (b. 1979, Taiwan) began his creative Birth and Breath 3 is a circular oil painting on canvas illustrating the endless cycle of career in 1995 after graduating from the Fine Arts the universe. The dynamic brush strokes of white depict the ‘breath of the universe’ Institute of Taiwan Normal University. Wu’s works that circulates the earth, giving life to all living things. draw inspiration from his rich life experiences and keen observations of the natural world, revealing Extremely fine details of flora are rendered in Wu’s signature subtractive method of the sense of peace and tranquillity he finds within painting, where he scratches out paint from the canvas using natural found objects its vastness. like twigs, tree branches, leaves and stones. Like Wu’s other circular paintings, this piece was designed to be rotated manually every so often, not only to provide In recent times, the artist has been invited to exhibit a fresh perspective of the artwork, but also to illustrate the concept of the eternal in diverse locations, such as the United States, France, Italy, Australia, Japan and Singapore, and cycle of the universe. has participated in international art fairs such as Korea, Malaysia, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Shenzhen. He has exhibited more than 50 times at the Taiwan History Museum, the Taiwan Art Museum, the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, the Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall, the National Institute of Education, and the Chi Mei Museum. In recent years, his works have won numerous awards and are widely displayed in famous hotels, offices, private and national collections worldwide. He has lived in France for several years since 2011. LOT FOR AUCTION
WU KUAN TE Birth and Breath 3, 2018
Oil on canvas 102 cm in diameter SGD 13,000 - 15,000 IMPART AWARDS 2020 - CHARITY AUCTION IMPART AWARDS 2020 - CHARITY AUCTION Robert Zhao Artwork Description
Robert Zhao Renhui (b. 1983, Singapore) is Since the 1950s, global changes such as deforestation and urbanisation have a multi-disciplinary artist who documents the affected animals and plants in different ways. Due to a dramatic increase in travel interactions between human and nature. Strongly and trade, animals and plants have also crossed into new territories, creating new informed by his observations and ongoing research ecological categories of ‘invasive’ and ‘native’ species. These new landscapes into the natural world, Zhao adopts a practice present alien and hybrid forms that is a result of many years of historical interaction that investigates and unravels the intertwining between men and their landscapes. relationship between humans and their habitats. His work has been exhibited at numerous solo This work is from the New Forest Series, which exposes a variety of collisions; and group presentations in Singapore, London, between nature and the city, invasives and natives. Sometimes these result in Shanghai and more, including most recently the violent encounters: competition, predation and extinctions. Other times these Singapore Biennale 2019, Taipei Biennale 2018, interactions result in a new, precarious balance, and a destabilising of categories Yinchuan Biennale 2018, Moscow Biennale 2017, of foreign and local, noxious and useful. Birdwatchers near the reclaimed lands of 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art Singapore mistook this kingfisher for a moulting kingfisher, or an albino kingfisher, (Brisbane, 2018) Jakarta Biennale, 2017 and until conservationists theorised that the kingfishers living in the sand dunes had Sydney Biennale, 2016. Zhao was a finalist for adapted to life in the sand by turning white as camouflage. This phenomenon the Hugo Boss Asia Art Award 2017. His work has emerged as a consequence of land reclamation in Singapore during the 70s. also been awarded The Deutsche Bank Award in Lighter-bodied kingfishers were able to blend in with the light-coloured sand and Photography (2011) by the University of the Arts were less likely to be eaten by birds of prey in the reclaimed lands. Because the London and The United Overseas Bank Painting of light-coloured kingfishers were much more effective at hiding from predators, the the Year Award (2009) Singapore. In 2010, he was frequency of the normal morph rapidly dropped to about 0.01%, a phenomenon awarded The Young Artist Award by the Singapore known as adaptive melanism. National Arts Council. He lives and works in Singapore. LOT FOR AUCTION
ROBERT ZHAO White Kingfisher, 2019
Archival piezoelectric print in frame, Edition 2/3 + 1 AP 180 x 120 cm SGD 10,000 IMPART AWARDS 2020 - CHARITY AUCTION IMPORTANT - TAX EXEMPTION INFORMATION
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Darrell Ang Harvard University Association of Alumni Singapore, board member of the National Artistic Director / Principal Conductor at Sichuan Symphony Orchestra Library Board and chairs the Public Library Advisory Committee. Darrell Ang is Asia’s pre-eminent young conductor and a regular guest with some of the world’s greatest orchestras such as the London Philharmonic, Orchestre Kwee Wei Lin National De Lyon, NHK Symphony, and the Singapore Symphony. He was recently Senior Vice President, Hotels at Pontiac Land Group the Young Associate Conductor of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra and Music Kwee Wei-Lin is SVP, Hotels at the Pontiac Land Group. The Group has hospitality, Director of the Singapore National Youth Orchestra. Ang has been the Artistic office, retail, medical and residential developments spannining Singapore, New Director and Chief Conductor of The Sichuan Orchestra of China since December York, Sydney and Maldives. She was a Director on the board of the Civil Service 2016. College from 2011 to 2017, and is currently the 2nd Vice-President of the Singapore Hotel Association and is also on the Sentosa-Harbourfront Precinct Steering Aw Kah Peng Committee Advisory Group. Country Chairman, Shell Companies Aw Kah Peng joined Shell in 2012 as the GM Global Commercial Strategy. She Audrey Phng moved to the Chemicals business as the global GM for Ethylene Oxide/Glycols Founding Member, Art Outreach Singapore, Managing Director, Asian Art Options in 2014 before being appointed to her current role. Prior to joining Shell, Aw had Audrey Phng heads the art consultancy firm Asian Art Options. Founded in 1999, a successful career in Singapore public service, at the Economic Development Asian Art Options was set up as a consultancy to provide full-scale art advisory Board and as CEO & Board Director of Singapore Tourism Board. She also is a to corporate, private and institutional clients. Her passion and experience lie in strong supporter of the arts in Singapore, through her work as a board member of the strategic and curatorial placement of the “right art for the right collection,” the Singapore Repertory Theatre. and working closely with various members of the art eco-system to establish art collections, programs and exhibitions. Michael Koh Fellow, Centre for Liveable Cities, Ministry of National Development Michael Koh is currently Fellow at the Centre for Liveable Cities, Singapore. He was the former CEO of the National Heritage Board from 2006 to 2013, and founding CEO of National Gallery Singapore. Koh is currently a committee member of the IMPART ADVISORY PANEL
Jeanette Tan Head of Global Corporate Affairs, Asia Pacific Japan, SAP Jeanette Tan leads the Asia Pacific and Japan communications and corporate social responsibility team at SAP, the market leader in enterprise application software. With 25 years of experience in branding and marketing communications, she has established a track record of success in the high-tech sector, winning more than 40 communications awards for multinational firms seeking accelerated growth in Asia Pacific.
Irene Tedja Director, PT Pakuwon Jati Irene Tedja was formerly the Director of Investor Relations and Corporate Finance at PT Pakuwon Jati, a diversified real-estate developer based in Jakarta and Surabaya. The second child of Alexander and Melinda Tedja, she has more than 20 years experience in the real estate industry. Prior to Pakuwon, Tedja worked at JP Morgan Chase in New York (M&A, Real Estate). ABOUT ART OUTREACH
Art Outreach is an educational non-profit organisation that shares the power of School Programmes art with children, parents, and communities. We offer art tours for the public, Our school classroom programmes foster meaningful engagement with art where classroom programs for students, community outreach to disadvantaged children students learn how to ‘read’ an artwork. They are also encouraged to critically and foster volunteerism by training volunteers to serve as art advocates. In doing analyse the works and express their candid opinions while being exposed to the so, we hope to teach visual literacy and critical thinking to children, connect historical and social contexts that are affiliated with the artworks. Singaporeans with their cultural heritage, and promote greater art appreciation Community Outreach in Singapore. Our programmes have been attended by more than 500,000 adults and children since 2003. Art Outreach is most proud to give back to the community in fun and impactful ways by facilitating high-quality arts education classes to children from Public Programmes disadvantaged backgrounds. Our public tours, talks and workshops offer the opportunity to discover and learn IPC Charity more about local and regional artworks and artists. Many of the artworks on the tours we guide are site specific and make important reference to the history and Art Outreach is officially endorsed as a charity by the Institution of Public culture of the surrounding environs. Our talks offer insight into concepts and Character (IPC) since 2003. Singapore taxpayers enjoy 250% tax exemption on movements in contemporary art and provide help in navigate the contemporary their donations. art marketplace. We also offer workshops for individuals, families and corporate groups at our office in Gillman Barracks. [email protected] +65 6873 9505 artoutreachsingapore.org SCHOOL PROGRAMMES
Art encourages critical thinking, develops creativity, collaboration, and communication skills, inspires compassion, and is a powerful means to learn while having fun.
The Art Outreach curriculum introduces seminal Singaporean artworks and artists into classrooms, and we also conduct art tours for students. Students learn how to ‘read’ and discuss works of art, and are encouraged to develop their own opinions. By thinking critically and engaging in fun and candid discussions, our programmes encourage children to consider new perspectives, while our pedagogy promotes cross-disciplinary learning, as students are exposed to the cultural, social and political contexts in which the artworks have been created.
Art Explorers Club Our Art Explorers Club is a popular means for students to discover Singapore’s cultural and historic heritage. Students actively engage with the stories behind the people, places, and events that have inspired key works of art. Designed to wrap around the academic curriculum, the programme uses dramatisation, interactive games, discussions, and videos to appeal to the young audiences.
Art Learning Journeys Our walking tours allow students to experience art in unique and dynamic settings: in the MRT, in public spaces, as well as in contemporary art galleries at Gillman Barracks. Each tour includes an interactive discussion, and an exploration of the art in detail through unique games and activities. ART & CULTURAL HERITAGE TOURSURS
We offer fun and engaging art tours with the most passionate, knowledgeable guides you’ll ever meet. Our tours invite you to explore, appreciate and understand Singapore’s past, present and future aspirations.
Art-in-Transit Tours Join us on an art tour of the city’s public train stations. The journey highlights a series of site-specific artworks created by local artists which reflect the community’s cultural and historical heritage.
Art in the City Tours In partnership with the National Arts Council’s Public Art Trust, we explore exciting outdoor sculptures and art works created by local and internationally recognised artists. Our Art in the City tours are the perfect way to discover Singapore’s art precincts.
Marina Bay Sands Art Path Integrating art and nature, this art path features renowned international artists, and encourages participants to consider and appreciate the complimentary relationship between art and architecture. COMMUNITY OUTREACH
Art Outreach believes that it is the right of every child to have inclusive access to high-quality visual arts education. Our community programmes aim to provide opportunities for underprivileged children to develop their creativity, build self-confidence and reach their full potential.
ARTLink Art Outreach partners with charities across Singapore to bring high-quality art programming during the school holidays. This series of workshops highlights Singaporean artists while exploring the overarching theme of identity. The participants efforts in the workshops culminate in an exhibition showcasing artworks that the children have proudly created.
Art Advocates We recognise the important role that communities play in bringing out the best in every child. By engaging volunteers, we hope to champion these positive role models and work together to build an increased sense of collective identity, values and pride.
Customised Programmes Design a visit, a programme, or a partnership. Participate in your choice of a one-time event, an ongoing project, or a professional development workshop at Art Outreach.
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MATERIAL AGENDAS 10–19 JAN, 11AM–7PM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS (SOTA) GALLERY, FREE ADMISSION
The IMPART Collectors’ Show is a marquee event on the Singapore Art Week calendar. The Show presents an opportunity for local and international collectors to share their passion as well as advocacy for art and artists, while allowing local audiences to enjoy access to key works that are held in private collections. The main aspiration of the Collectors’ Show is to bring together the “market, the makers and the masses”, as it is part of IMPART’s program objective to not only to cultivate and support emerging art talents, but also encourage art collectors and the public to understand and appreciate the networks that sustain our visual art communities.
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Image credits (next page, left to right): Alwar Balasubramaniam, Detail of Gravity, 2008. Manjit Bawa, Detail of Untitled, 2001-2002. Bharti Kher, Detail of I’ve Seen an Elephant Fly, 2002. Jeffrey Gibson, Detail of THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN YOU + ME, 2015. Mariano Ching, Detail of Heads, 2011. Nadiah Bamadhaj, Detail of The Doctor, 2012. Jakkai Siributr, Detail of Hi-So, 2011. Jakkai Siributr, Detail of Untitled, Indigen Series, 2005. Christine Ay Tjoe, Detail of Freezing the Black 02, 2017-2018. Jackson Kang, Detail of Cast Me In Thy Image, For I Am Formless & Desperately Need Clothes, 2017. Kehinde Wiley, Detail of Saint Gregory the Great, 2018. Tromarama, Detail of Ting*, 2008. Marcin Dudek, Detail of Latent and Active, 2018. Yinka Shonibare CBE, Detail of Cupid Bending a Bow, 2018. Adeela Suleman, Detail of What Dreams May Come, 2016. Yang Yongliang, Detail of The Departure, 2018. Idris Khan, Detail of The Four Seasons, 2014. El Anatsui, Detail of Coins on Grandmother’s Cloth, 1992. Ruud Van Empel, Detail of Theatre #6, Edition 2/7, 2011. Odelia Tang, Detail of Time Is a Weight I Carry, 2019. FEATURED AT SINGAPORE ART WEEK 2020
Launched during Singapore Art Week 2020, Art Encounters is a presentation series capturing the art-making process within repurposed shipping containers. Functioning as mobile studio and gallery spaces, the containers will move to unique sites every few months. Every rotation of Art Encounters will uncover new opportunities for integrating art into aspects of local life.
At each site, an artist will be commissioned to create artwork inside the containers, allowing full visibility into the fascinating art-making process. Visitors may engage in conversation with the artist to learn about their inspiration, techniques, and perspectives. The completed artwork will remain on display for a few months, enriched by dialogues and responses from the community around the art site and from the general public. Featuring diverse artists and mediums across drawing, painting, sculpture and digital installations, Art Encounters offers rare insight into the chapter of creativity that is often concealed in traditional exhibitions, thus bringing the public closer to art.
We are delighted to collaborate with RSCLS, a local artist collective formed in 2003 that seeks to evolve and develop urban art. The exterior of each container is designed and painted by TraseOne and Zero from RSCLS. Also featured as opening souvenir gifts are limited edition postcards featuring the artwork of five RSCLS members: TraseOne, ANTZ, Song, Dec, Spaz.
Art Encounters is kindly supported by the Singapore Tourism Board.
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LIONEL SABATTÉ: CONCRETE CONTEMPLATIONS FROM THE PAST IN THE CITY OF TOMORROW 12 JAN–2 FEB (CLOSED 25–27 FEB), 11AM–7PM, FREE ADMISSION PEDESTRIAN WALKWAY IN FRONT OF NGEE ANN CITY
French contemporary artist Lionel Sabatté is intrigued by our relationship with the living world, and the transformation of matter through time. Throughout his practice, he has collected materials discarded by society that preserve traces of use and exchange—from tea leaves to dust, ashes, charcoal and even dead skin— transforming them into delicate and poetic forms. To him, each material tells its own story. He likes to experiment with them, and often lets the material guide his creative process.
In June 2019, Sabatté was invited to live and work inside Bédeilhac, a UNESCO- protected cave in France which contains exquisite examples of Palaeolithic painting and sculpture. Responding to the rich history of his surroundings, he spent 10 days creating several human figures and a single goat, echoing the forms that were engraved and sculpted by hands over 20,000 years ago.
Likening this experience to travelling to the past, Sabatté brings his project full circle in Singapore, a city that to him represents the future. Over the course of 5 days in January, Sabatté sculpted a family of three prehistoric goats in full view of the public as a feature of his Art Encounters residency. The sculptures are made of concrete, a material he feels best encapsulates the concept of “construction”. This building material has played a vital role in the development of human civilisation from the ancient world to today’s mega cities, thereby connecting the sculptures to the ever- progressing present and to humankind’s storied past.
This inaugural edition of Art Encounters is made possible by the generousity of art ART OUTREACH TEAM patron Kevin Cuturi, founder of Cuturi Gallery in Singapore. The next edition of Art Dina Nerina (Programme Administrator), Gloria Ooi (Special Projects Executive), Encounters will be unveiled at a new site in mid-February 2020, with a new artist-in- Colin Wan (Manager & Chief Creative), Eve Hoon (Special Projects Manager) residence. VENUE HOST
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