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Artist Regional Exchange 5 ARX5
1 October 1998 - 1 November 1998
Artist Regional Exchange 5 ARX5 was an artist residency programme about the new, the challenging, the experimental and the innovative, started in Perth in 1987. The 15 artists, five from Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia, used resources available to them in each country to produce from scratch, works that reflected their final artworks. |
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Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) 60th Anniversary Exhibition
20 August 1998 - 1 November 1998
The history of NAFA is interwoven with the development of modern art in Singapore, and for the first time, the works of 40 artists of such different generations as Georgette Chen, Tchang Ju Chi, Lim Hak Tai, Lai Foong Moi, Ng Eng Teng and Han Sai Por appeared in a single exhibition. |
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Tryst with Destiny: Art from Modern India 1947-1997
October 1997- 18 January 1998
The first comprehensive exhibition in South East Asia that chronicles and represents the major trends of the last five decades of contemporary Indian painting including abstract art, Indian Surrealism and other major schools and centres. Participating artists include notable names like Binod Behari Mukherjee, Ram Kumar, Manjit Bawar, Arpita Singh and other. Presented in collaboration with the Centre for International Modern Art, Calcutta and the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi.
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Lim Tze Peng
5 June 1998- 9 August 1998
Second generation Singaporean artist Lim Tze Peng is one of an increasingly rare breed of landscapists. Lim shows his passion in capturing landscape unfamiliar yet. A great deal of Lim's work records time and space not commonly remembered.
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Fan Chang Tien: His Art and His Passion
1 April 1998- 9 August 1998
Fan Chang Tien (1907-1987) was one of the most influential and inspirational Chinese ink painters in Singapore. A scholar-painter in the Chinese Literati tradition, Fan's works bear his distinctive stamp of humour, character and philosophy.
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Chen Chong Swee
4 June 1998- 9 August 1998
The pioneer artist, Chen Chong Swee (1910-1986) was a painter, educator and writer, working in various media including oil, charcoal and pastel. He was prolific in Chinese ink and watercolours. This exhibition commemorated the generous donation of his works from his family, now in the collection of the Singapore Art Museum.
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The Origins of Modern Art in France:1880-1939
15 May 1998- 13 September 1998
The exhibition delivered a dynamism that is rare in the history of art, from paintings of sunlit landscapes and happy portraits by the Impressionists, to the daring and radical colours of Fauvists, to the re-interpretation of objects and space by Cubists and dismissal of representation by the Abstractionists. Celebrated masterpieces by Renoir, Mattise, Gaugin, Rodin, Picasso and others were shown in the exhibition. All the exhibits had adorned walls and collections of some 30 prestigious museums including Musee d'Orsay in France.
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Leonardo Da Vinci: Scientist, Inventor, Artist
3 October 1998- 1 February 1998
More than 270 exhibits gave an excellent view of works by the genius of the Renaissance. These exhibits included paintings and sculpture, as well as scientific studies of human body, animals, plants, mechanics and flying machines. The exhibition of 30 original artworks attributed to Leonardo included his contemporaries like Michaelangelo and Raphael. There was a 19th Century copy of the celebrated Mona Lisa, in great physical likeness to the original. |
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ASEAN Art Awards Exhibition
20 January 1998- 22 March 1998
1997 ASEAN Art Awards coincided with the 30th Anniversary celebrations of the formation of ASEAN. Held and judged in Manila, Philippines, the Awards had provided a platform for cross-regional dialogue between artists of different nations and generations. The Singapore Art Museum and the Philip Morris Group of Companies jointly presented this exhibition of 35 paintings on the second leg of its tour.
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From There to Now: Malaysian Art from the Singapore Art Museum
13 February 1998- 3 April 1988
The exhibition featured more than 40 works spanning early 20th Century to the present. It provided an abbreviated account of the development in Malaysian art: modernism, shaped by colonialism, migration and nationalism. Through these works, tensions are dramatized between internationalism and the indigenous, tradition and modernity, and individualism and communalism.
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Liu Kang
27 September 1997- 11 January 1998
Held to commemorate the conferment of the Meritorious Service Award upon Liu Kang last year, the exhibition featured some 50 works which spans his extraordinary artistic career. The works are taken from important periods from the early phases as an artistic practitioner displaying the Western influence, to more mature works focused on local and regional aesthetic concerns and practices. The exhibition also aims to highlight his contribution to the definition and development of local art, not only as one of Singapore's pioneer artists but as a continually productive and innovative member of the community . | |
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