Past
2015
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Booths F10 and E14
Art Paris 2015
26 - 29 March 2015 At 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 and Mike Starn, American artist Dane Patterson, Egyptian artist Armen Agop and Chinese artist Nan Qi. Read more -
Level 1 - 4
From Earth and Metal: Contemporary Sculpture
5 March - 16 May 2015 From Earth and Metal: Contemporary Sculpture is a group sculpture exhibition featuring renowned international artists Bernar Venet, Pablo Reinoso, Jedd Novatt, Armen Agop and Yves Dana. The exhibition celebrates the power of sculpture to re-define our environment. Inert in their existence yet dynamic in form, the artists masterfully seize natural and industrial materials such as bronze, steel, wood and stone to achieve profound connections between man, matter and metaphysics. Read more -
Level 4
Armen Agop: Transcontemporary
22 January - 21 February 2015 Armen Agop's sculptures have been called futuristic, other-worldy, UFOs, and at the same time ancient, spiritual and meditative. They are forms that seem familiar and yet unusual. They may remind you of something you haven't yet seen. This may be in part due to the timelessness of the material he chooses and it may be due to his approach, which results in precise forms that demand contemplation. Transcontemporary unveils new granite and bronze sculptures by the artist that are both free-standing and wall-mounted. Read more -
Level 3
Michel Platnic: After
22 January - 21 February 2015 After is a unique exhibition experience by Israeli artist Michel Platnic, featuring a dramatic series of moving multimedia portraits and prints. Platnic's preoccupation with the human form is vivid in his latest works, where he challenges the boundaries of artistic mediums by merging technology with tradition. In a nod to the work of Francis Bacon, Platnic's 'living paintings' expand on the idea of the portrait by bringing them to life using a combination of photography, video, painting and performance. Read more -
Level 1 & 2
Perspectives: A Group Exhibition
22 January - 28 February 2015 Perspectives 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. Read more -
Art Stage Singapore 2015
Art Stage Singapore 2015: Fabienne Verdier and Nan Qi
21 - 25 January 2015 At Art Stage Singapore 2015 Booth C13, Art Plural Gallery presented the solo exhibitions of French artist Fabienne Verdier and Chinese ink artist Nan Qi. These exhibitions unveiled 5 significant new paintings by Fabienne Verdier, who created them especially for the occasion, and 20 intricate ink drawings by Nan Qi. Read more
2014
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Level 1
Fu Lei: Dreams of Desire
14 - 30 December 2014 Born 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. The artist's solo exhibition Dreams of Desire unveiled 5 large-scale oil paintings created exclusively for the occasion and a selection of drawings. Read more -
Level 4
Jedd Novatt: Solo Exhibition
4 November - 4 December 2014 Breaking new grounds, American artist Jedd Novatt's sculptures push boundaries and challenge our expectations by creating a unique aesthetic that unveils an unprecedented path in the history of sculpture. Defying scale and questioning gravity, structures of all sizes shape interspaces, define dimensions and embody monumentality. Piled empty squares in bronze or steel incise the air with their unequal edges creating two dialectic spaces. The artist's inaugural solo exhibition in Southeast Asia featured two large sculptures as well as smaller scale works and collages. Read more -
Level 3
Dane Patterson: Hypothetical Arrangements
9 October - 15 November 2014 Born in 1978 in Indiana, Dane Patterson is celebrated for his graphite drawings on paper that depict meticulously arranged rooms of hypothetical households. Elaborating on the tradition of still life, Patterson builds his hyper-realistic compositions from a foundation of photographs taken either by him when visiting grand historical homes or taken from highly-aestheticised interior design catalogues. The artist's solo exhibition Hypothetical Arrangements unveiled over 15 new works of different sizes. Read more -
Level 1
Peter Halley: Solo Exhibition
29 August - 11 October 2014 Largely associated with Neo-Conceptualism and Minimalist art, American artist Peter Halley is famed for his vibrantly-coloured geometrical paintings, often described as square prisons. Halley challenges the concept of space, viewing his principle motif, the square, as a metaphor for confinement. Reflecting the idea of prisons, solitary themes play crucial to Halley’s work. Peter Halley's first solo exhibition in Southeast Asia presented ten works spanning over 15 years of his career. Read more -
Level 3
Agathe de Bailliencourt: Water, Colour, Recordings
29 August - 3 October 2014 French artist Agathe de Bailliencourt’s solo exhibition Water, Colour, Recordings dealt with the question of horizon as one of painting’s most basic acts in defining time, space, and a scale of infinity. The exhibition unveils new works from her ongoing series Couleur du Temps, which was born during an artist residency at Marfa, Texas. By applying an extended version of watercolor-technique on untreated linen canvas, de Bailliencourt turns the perspective of a romantic tradition of landscape painting, the imagination of a distant past, towards an open futurist vision. Read more -
Level 3
Adriana Molder: The Light in the Heart
11 June - 16 August 2014 Born in 1975 in Lisbon, Berlin-based artist Adriana Molder has developed a unique body of work consisting of black and white portraits using India ink on tracing paper. Inspired by iconic figures mostly taken from films, Adriana Molder's work incorporates various references derived from literature, old masters paintings, folk stories and random images found in magazines. Cinema always plays an important role in her work, as the depicted characters seem to tell a narrative beyond their pictorial existence. The artist's solo exhibition unveiled two new series of paintings, The Light in the Heart and Mystery. Read more -
Level 3
Sherman Ong: Spurious Stories from the Land and Water
24 April - 31 May 2014 Born in 1971 in Malaysia and based in Singapore, Sherman Ong’s work centres on the relationships between humans and their environment. Addressing the climate difficulties in South East Asia, he broadens his speech to borderless issues, travelling around the world to voice the crises he meets. Photographs and videos express the characters’ loss and breathlessness in spaces ruled by uncontrollable telluric forces. Read more -
Level 1, Level 2, Level 3, Level 4
FLUX: Collective Exhibition
17 January - 31 March 2014 In 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 underlined the plural identity of the gallery, bridging East and West and fostering dialogue between cultures, temporalities and artistic expressions and mediums. Flux re-visited the flow of energy that stirs the creative languages of the selected contemporary artists. The exhibition paid tribute to the creative selection of the gallery featuring works by Fabienne Verdier, Bernar Venet, Ian Davenport, Yves Dana, Pablo Reinoso, Fu Lei, Chun Kwang Young or Doug and Mike Starn, offering interesting echoes and correspondences. Read more
2013
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Level 3
Excess
21 November - 28 December 2013 From 18 November to 27 December 2013, Art Plural Gallery presented Excess, the joint exhibition of Chinese artist Fu Lei and American artist Dane Patterson. Read more -
Level 1
Nan Qi: Authority, Sex, Money
31 October - 23 November 2013 Authority, Sex, Money revisits traditional Chinese ink painting and engage our global audience in broader dialogues. Working with ink on Xuan paper alternating black and white, Nan Qi’s work is deeply rooted in the technique of traditional ink painting. From this strong personal attachment to ink, the artist incorporates new elements to his work, such as the dot pointillist and 3D techniques, injecting an innovative dimension to the traditional medium. The exhibition featured 30 of the artist's new works, presented in collaboration with China Art Foundation. Read more -
Level 3
Tian Taiquan: Solo Exhibition
2 October - 3 November 2013 Chinese artist Tian Taiquan's solo exhibition presented 12 photographs from the artist's Totem Recollection series. The artist, born in Chongqing, China, vividly expresses the living scar weighing on his country since the Cultural Revolution. Covering and unfolding memories through photography montages, the artist tangles reality and fiction to create a witness account of history as a colourful yet violent graveyard. Read more -
Level 1, Level 2, Level 3
Qiu Jie: Solo Exhibition
13 September - 26 October 2013 In his intricate pencil drawings, Chinese artist Qiu Jie confronts the history of Chinese society with contemporary Western popular culture in a black and white aesthetics. His drawings create links that sew a common thread between different situations, establishing another logic in the story of time. Before moving to Switzerland in 1989, “the man who comes from other mountains” (his pseudonym and signature in each work), spent his childhood in China during the Cultural Revolution, drawing and copying propaganda images from local newspapers. Today each of his drawings are inspired by existing images extracted from an infinite panel of sources, from newspapers to advertisments, paintings and photos. The artist, acting as a novelist, uses these existing characters to compose a story of his own. Read more -
Level 1, Level 2
Chun Kwang Young: Assemblage
29 May - 31 August 2013 Chun Kwang Young has spent his career seeking the individuality of a style that allows him to express the dualities indigenous to his work. Beginning the long journey into Abstract Expressionism in the 1970s, a move to America spurred him to embrace a direction that could freely express the divide he encountered between promises and reality. From there, Chun sought a personal language and a strong voice that would allow him to incorporate influences from his homeland. A seminal moment came in 1995, when Chun began to create structural works of art made of the assemblage of hundreds of polystyrene foam triangles wrapped in Korean mulberry paper. Known as hanji, the paper is deeply rooted in Korean tradition and was at one time a ubiquitous household material, as well as a means of wrapping various objects such as medicine and food. Read more -
Macau
Pablo Reinoso: Living Sculptures at Le French May
25 April - 14 July 2013 From 25 April to 14 July 2013 Art Plural Gallery presented the solo exhibition of French-Argentinean artist Pablo Reinoso as part of Le French May in Hong Kong and Macau. The exhibition titled Living Sculptures featured eleven artworks which were displayed in One Central Mall and Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Macau. Read more -
Level 1
Thukral and Tagra: Windows of Opportunity
22 March - 25 May 2013 Windows of Opportunity, a new series of paintings and wall reliefs by Indian artist duo Thukral and Tagra, explore the socio-political issues behind the Punjabi diaspora. The subject addresses an issue that is close to home for the artists, as many of their own peers have migrated out of India in recent years. As in the past, the youth of India today desire to escape their nation and live out their fantasies in America, Europe or Australia, fantasies perpetuated by the mass media. The ‘windows of opportunity’ they seek are referenced in portraits of young individuals framed in airplane windows, waiting patiently for escape. Read more -
Level 1, Level 2, Level 3, Level 4
Fabienne Verdier: A Solo Exhibition
25 January - 9 March 2013 For her Southeast Asian premiere, Fabienne Verdier explored the theme of abstract landscapes inspired by her journey by the coastline of Norway. Verdier sought inspiration from the living – the movement of life forces through stone and soil. The exhibition featured her latest drawings and large-scale paintings, including works from the Color Flows, Memories of Norway, Energy Fields, Fractalscapes, and Cercle series. Read more
2012
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Level 4
Shirin Neshat: Games of Desire
26 October - 15 December 2012 From 26 October to 15 December 2012, Art Plural Gallery presented the inaugural solo exhibition of New York-based artist of Iranian descent, Shirin Neshat in Southeast Asia. The exhibition titled Shirin Neshat: Games of Desire featured photography and video works from her Games of Desire series. Read more -
Level 1, Level 2, Level 3
Bernar Venet: A Solo Exhibition
26 September - 24 November 2012 In his solo exhibition, acclaimed French artist Bernar Venet showed new sculptural reliefs from his GRIB series, an extension of the original wooden Indeterminate Lines that were developed between 1979 and 1983. The works included in this show were made from 35mm steel plates torch-cut by hand. The technique adds to the unpredictable nature of these ‘scribbles’ and gives these works a rougher character and more accessibility than their predecessors. The scribbling of the GRIB wall pieces logically connects the action of drawing in a random two-dimensional gesticulation and the physicality of a precise three-dimensional figure. With these new works, Bernar Venet sees a very wide field of possibilities and new propositions. Read more -
Level 4
Julia Calfee: Inside the Chelsea Hotel
12 September - 12 October 2012 From 12 September through 12 October, 2012 Art Plural Gallery presented the first exhibition by Julia Calfee in Singapore. The exhibition, titled Inside the Chelsea Hotel, exhibited photographs documenting the state of mind that has existed in that unique place In New York City - the legendary residence for artists, writers and musicians. Read more -
Level 1
Siddhartha Tawadey: Sans Souci
7 August - 7 September 2012 Indian artist Siddhartha Tawadey premiered his photography series Sans Souci, literally translated from French as ‘without worries’, in his eponymous solo exhibition. Shot in an abandoned mansion on an undisclosed location, Sans Souci creates an ambiguous space in which to explore notions of beauty, memory and history. The series of ten prints presents a compelling portrait of a place in time and a way of life at once fading and being reinvented with each new season. Poetic focus on relics of an indelible past draws from the viewer a sensation or memory, allowing fluid narratives to form in a visual setting of stasis and decay. Read more -
Level 1
Ian Davenport: Between the Lines
11 May - 7 July 2012 British artist Ian Davenport’s inaugural solo exhibition in South-East Asia featured his distinctive poured paintings. The Former Turner Prize nominee is recognised for his intense and unconventional painting practice, working with a crescendo of colours orchestrated in rows of lines. Read more -
Level 1
Pablo Reinoso: A Solo Exhibition
16 January - 31 March 2012 From 16 January to 3 March 2012, Art Plural Gallery announced the inaugural solo exhibition of French-Argentinean artist Pablo Reinoso in South-East Asia. The exhibition featured 15 sculptures, specifically created by the artist for his Singapore premiere and was inaugurated as a fringe event of Art Stage Singapore 2012 in the presence of the artist. A leading personal showcase for Pablo Reinoso in Asia, the artist was also in town to unveil the prototype of a new monumental work. Read more
2011
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Level 1, Level 2, Level 3, Level 4
Regards Croisés: A Selection of Asian Contemporary Art
7 October - 10 December 2011 Regards Croisés: A Selection of Asian Contemporary Art, which literally means ‘a cross-perspective of a selection of Asian Contemporary Art’, featured works by fifteen highly influential artists from China, India, and Korea. The exhibition also included works by French artist Fabienne Verdier who was trained in Chinese traditional ink painting for almost a decade. The exhibition payed homage to contemporary artists whose works confront one another to create a narrative through issues of globalisation, industrialization, consumerism, environment, identity and individuality. It allowed the audience to engage in an introspective with the multiple facets of Asian art today through a range of mediums including sculptures, paintings, drawings, photography and mixed-media installation. Read more -
Level 1, Level 2, Level 3, Level 4
Avant Première
11 June - 6 October 2011 In June 2011 Art Plural Gallery launched its inaugural group exhibition, Avant Première which ran from 3 June to 30 September, 2011. The show included multidisciplinary works by international artists Marc Quinn, Fernando Botero, Barry Flanagan, Julian Schnabel and Yves Dana to name a few. A rare oil painting by Pablo Picasso and outstanding works by Chu Teh-Chun and Jean Dubuffet were unveiled for the occasion. Read more