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Art Paris 2015
26 - 29 Mar 2015At Art Paris 2015, Art Plural Gallery presents a selection of works at two booths: F10 in the Singapore Platform and E14 in the main fair. At the Singapore Platform we exhibit Malaysian-born artist Sherman Ong's photography works, selected from his HanoiHaiku, Monsoon and Spurious Landscapes series, and late Singaporean sculptor and printmaker Kim Lim. Meanwhile, at our main booth we present new works by French artist Fabienne Verdier, Korean artist Chun Kwang Young, Chinese artist Fu Lei, French-Argentinian artist Pablo Reinoso, American artist Jedd Novatt, American twin brothers Doug...Read more -
Perspectives: A Group Exhibition
22 Jan - 28 Feb 2015Perspectives is a group exhibition that celebrates the diversity of artistic practice and perspectives in our increasingly globalized age. Spanning different continents and myriad of cultures, the exhibition is an expression of the gallery’s vision of a plural approach to contemporary art. Put in dialogue with one another, the juxtaposition may at first seem discordant yet given time, one notes their marked similarities. From the regional-specific to the global and even to the metaphysical realm, universal themes of chaos, control, excess and conflict come to the fore – whether between...Read more -
Fu Lei: Dreams of Desire
14 - 30 Dec 2014Born in Beijing in 1958, Fu Lei’s elaborate oil paintings capture the notion of excess in today’s world. Plump figures decorated in pearls and dainty high-heels frolic amongst toads, flamingos, snails and fruit in an absurd yet uncannily familiar world. The subtle point of a toe as it emerges from the tangle of flesh reveals the underlying theme of lust, framed by the sheen of draped silk sheets and the enveloping wing of a crane in a display of somewhat faux modesty. Although set in the clouds, just beyond the...Read more
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FLUX: Collective Exhibition
17 Jan - 31 Mar 2014In January 2014 Art Plural Gallery presented Flux, an important collective exhibition featuring more than 20 artists working with various media such as painting, sculpture, drawings and photography. The exhibition ran from 17 January to 28 February 2014 during Art Stage 2014 and Singapore's booming Art Week. Flux underlies the plural identity of the gallery, bridging East and West and fostering dialogue between cultures, temporalities and artistic expressions and mediums. Flux aims to visit the flow of energy stirring the creative languages of the selected contemporary artists. The exhibition pays...Read more -
Excess
21 Nov - 28 Dec 2013From 18 November to 27 December 2013, Art Plural Gallery presented Excess, the joint exhibition of Chinese artist Fu Lei and American artist Dane Patterson. Fu Lei, born in Beijing in 1958, celebrates the excess of sensuality and desire conveyed through massive bodies’ volumes and flesh disproportions. Picturing unusual scenes echoing classical Greek orgiastic feasts, Fu Lei sets lust as a value in a world emphasizing the ambiguousness of human nature. “The inspirations of my creation come from the freedom of not fixing my mind on any culture, region, pattern...Read more