MangoVine - Singapore Art Museum

11 September, 2009
Friday

Located on downtown Singapore's Bras Basah Road, the Singapore Art Museum housed an impressive and diverse collection of pieces of Singaporean and Southeast Asian Modern and Contemporary Art.

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Photos of exhibits weren't allowed - only photos of architectural features were permitted, so my "documentation" is limited. However, we did manage to bypass the entrance fee by turning up between 12-2pm, when entry was free.

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There were many art pieces that I loved in the museum and it was a joy to get a sense of the east but find a different and interesting result. Out of the pieces I noted down, I could only find the work of Lu Hao and Wu Guanzhong online.

Lu Hao is a Chinese artist who featured in a solo exhibition at the Singapore Art Exhibition. A number of rooms were dedicated to his work, which ranged from giant ink-on-silk paintings of shelves stacked with consumer goods to clear acrylic models of Beijing buildings reconceptualised as containers for live flowers, birds, grasshoppers and fish.

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Wu Guanzhong appeared to be a more classical artist whose work embodied the simple brushstrokes of Chinese painting. However, some of the simplicity of his landscapes just blew me away.

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Outside the museum were these strange paper-maché-like sculptures and a couple of bronze East-Asian men eating with bowls and chopsticks.

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Visit the Singapore Art Museum website.

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