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Singapore was also a hotbed of creativity in the Sixties, though its art scene at the time is sadly under-documented. “Several artists were experimental and bold and forced audiences to rethink their ideas and understanding of what art can or should be,” says Charmaine Toh, a curator at the National Gallery Singapore. Only recently did the gallery rediscover the first known examples of land art from the city a series of works by performance artist Tang Da Wu. One piece, Gully Curtains, hadn’t been unpacked since the Eighties. Wu was concerned to see Singapore’s landscape increasingly stripped of trees to build public housing. As a result of soil erosion, deep gullies scarred the land near his home. In response, he climbed into one of these muddy crevices and positioned seven pieces of cloth of different lengths inside it, adding jagged black marks indicating the depth of the ditch. He left the fabric there for three months, inviting nature to collaborate. The resu ....
2020/12/31 14:43 Cai Guo-qiang and HTC Vive Arts launch VR fireworks. (Cai Studio photo) Cai Guo-qiang and HTC Vive Arts launch VR fireworks. (Cai Studio photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) Chinese contemporary artist Cai Guo-qiang s (蔡國強) new exhibition featuring a virtual reality collaboration with Taiwan s HTC VIVE Arts kicked off at the Palace Museum in Beijing on Dec. 15, according to a press release from Eslite Gallery. Born in 1957, Cai Guo-qiang currently lives and works in New York City. He is famous for using gunpowder as an artistic medium to apply paint to canvas. His latest retrospective, Odyssey and Homecoming, is curated by Sir Simon Schama, professor of History and Art History at Columbia University and a noted public intellectual. The exhibition was co-organized with the commission for the XXIV Olympic Winter Games. ....