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SINGAPORE ART MUSEUM (SAM)

ADVANCE EXHIBITION/EVENT SCHEDULE 2004

Highlights from the Singapore Art Museum Permanent Collection

24 April 2003 – 28 March 2004

SAM Galleries 1, 3 & 4

Curator: Ahmad Mashadi

This exhibition, featuring works from the Singapore Art Museum permanent collection, offers four inter-related themes in Southeast Asian art that explore the complex terrains of Southeast Asian modernity: Realism and Social Commitment, Abstraction and the Search for Identities, Continuities in Traditions, and Contemporary Perspectives. Modern and contemporary artists represented in this presentation includes Nguyan Gia Tri, Fernando Amorsolo, S. Sudjojono, Prasong Lemuang, Imelda Cajipe-Endaya, Bayu Utomo Radjikin, Kamin Lertchaiprasert and others.

swedenmade design 4stories

20 November 2003 – 29 February 2004

Galleries 5, 6, 7 & 8

Curators: Nina Jobs and Monica Förster

Coordinating: Joyce Fan

Swedish contemporary design has firmly established its distinctive identity in today's global context and gain international recognition and market demand.  With a firm emphasis on function, form and material, Swedish designed products are highly adapted to the climatic conditions of Sweden where the environment plays an important role in their conceptualisation and making. Partnerships between designers and the industry has resulted in well thought through products that help create unique identities for companies, strengthening their image and helping them gain a competitive advantage.  This exhibition features works by 13 designers, of which two - Monica Förster and Nina Jobs - are also curators of the show.  The exhibition, swedenmade design 4stories, features prize-winning products from some of the best Swedish designers and producers.  The design of these exhibits are innovative ideas where form, function and material are adapted to and based on Sweden’s changing seasons and its changing climatic conditions.  The thematic display of the objects corresponds to the four seasons where the exhibits are grouped into four inflatable cloud-shaped rooms designed by Ms Förster.

swedenmade design 4stories is part of Design Design, and is proudly associated with DesignSingapore (www.designsingapore.org), a national collaborative to promote design excellence in Singapore.

Tze Peng (Zi Ping)

4 December 2003 to 22 February 2004

Upper and Lower Galleries

Curator: Bridget Tracy Tan

This exhibition comprising 65 works will enable the casual visitor to journey through the art and life of the artist, Lim Tze Peng. Born in 1923, a teacher by training and profession, Lim Tze Peng has come a long way since his first solo exhibition in 1970. Now, and still, completely involved in his art, Lim continues to explore calligraphy, Chinese ink and contemporary oils with much fervour. The artist’s landscapes are his forte, as shown in the 1998 Meeting Places in Fleeting Spaces held at SAM. The broader range here intends to capture and share the essence and the spirit of the artist’s practice – one that has permeated his prolific and illustrious career. Compelling for the sheer breadth selected from over 200 recently donated works, the exhibition will visually illustrate the depth of the artist's dedication and skill.

WoodLand

Singapore Art Museum curates the second exhibition in a series of Museum@Woodlands exhibitions

End January 2004 – May 2004

Venue: Woodlands Library

Curators: Ahmad Mashadi, June Yap and Michael Lee Hong Hwee

Artists have often drawn inspirations from nature, making amazing works of art in, on and with nature using a range of media.  Contemporary artists and designers thus have no lack of examples of how art and nature have been dealt with in and outside of Singapore’s cultural history.  They are invited and encouraged to respond to the exhibition, WoodLand, by proposing artworks that represent and respond to nature as concept or theme in various media, and integrates with the nature and design of the library as a public and learning space.

Museum@Woodlands is a project undertaken by National Heritage Board and National Library Board to create a fusion learning space in the form of a museum at a library.

WoodLand is part of Design Design, and is proudly associated with DesignSingapore.

Encounters with Modernism, Highlights from the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

18 March 2004 - 6 June 2004

SAM Upper & Lower Galleries and Galleries 5, 6, 7, 8

Curator: Maarten Bertheux

Coordinating: June Yap

Part of the international art tour 'The Past of the Present' sponsored by ABN AMRO

Presenting highlights of 20^th century history of art, the exhibition includes works of two generations of avant garde artists, modern classics of the first half of the century and varies to incorporate exciting contemporary artworks drawn from the collection of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, one of the earliest modern art museums in the world.  The artworks will be grouped into broad themes of abstraction, expressionism, realism, conceptualism, showcasing an extensive exhibition of works of art historical significance, yet also a feast for the senses.

Fascination with Nature : Finger Paintings by Wu Tsai Yen               

8 April 2004 - 4 July 2004

SAM Galleries 1, 3 & 4

Curator: Low Sze Wee

The exhibition aims to provide a survey of the artistic career of the late Wu Tsai Yen - one of Singapore’s pioneer ink painters and its foremost exponent of the art of finger painting. The show features about 40 works from the permanent collection of the Singapore Art Museum and local private collections. This exhibition also honours the artist's last significant donation to the museum in August 2001.

Interrupt

26 June 2003 – 25 April 2004

Galleries 15 & 16

Curator: June Yap

An exhibition of interventions, interactivity and the internet, Interrupt presents a cross-section of artist practices engaging in technologies and media. In contemporary culture, we are surrounded by media representations and our lives are augmented by various technologies. Reflecting upon our digital engagements, the exhibition takes a look at the aesthetics of media and code, realpolitik of technologies, imagined spaces and utopian dreams.

Twilight Tomorrow

5 May 2004 – September 2004

SAM Galleries 15 & 16

Curator: June Yap

Through the breakthrough of technology and specifically telecommunications, art can be experienced globally and from different locations at the same moment in time, in real time.  This exhibition includes a component of one-channel video art that is simultaneously presented in overseas venues.  The simultaneous presentation across venues, makes reference to concepts and ideas about belonging and identity that are increasingly becoming complex due to globalisation and trans-migration.  

Pierre & Gilles

17 June – 18 July 2004

SAM Galleries 5,6,7, 8

The exhibition presents the works of contemporary French artists Pierre et Gilles, whose stylised portraits are created in the tradition of glamour photography. Creating their illusionistic and fantastic portraits, a mixture of artifice and reality, the artists stage their images with props, costumes and lighting, pointing to their roots in commercial illustration and design.

Pierre & Gilles is part of Design Design, a thematic grouping of a series of 6 exhibitions presenting design, jointly organised by the National Heritage Board’s Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore History Museum, and Singapore Philatelic Museum.  The exhibition is proudly associated with DesignSingapore, a national collaborative to promote design excellence in Singapore.

Russel Wong

29 Jul 2004 – 19 Sep 2004

SAM Galleries 5, 6, 7, 8

Russel Wong, one of Singapore’s leading professional photographers with an international portfolio, presents a broad selection of his works in the solo exhibition at the Singapore Art Museum. From the celebrity portraits he is well-known for, backstage and performance photography, to visual narratives, the exhibition reveals the photographer: his person and practice.  The exhibition features works from his portraits of famous faces, productions and narratives. Through his photographic style and expression, Russel Wong, details his development and his unique perspective of capturing the moment.

The exhibition is part of Design Design, a thematic grouping of a series of 6 exhibitions presenting design, jointly organised by the National Heritage Board’s Asian Civilizations Museum, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore History Museum, and Singapore Philatelic Museum.  The exhibition is proudly associated with DesignSingapore, a national collaborative to promote design excellence in Singapore.

Ju Ming

1 Jul 2004 – 19 Sep 2004

SAM Upper and Lower Galleries

Co-organised by Singapore Art Museum, Juming Museum and iPRECIATION

The last exhibition of the sculptures of renowned Asian sculptor Ju Ming was at the former National Museum of Singapore, presently the Singapore History Museum in 1986.  The artist, born in Taiwan in 1938 was an apprentice to the famous  Taiwanese wood craftsman Lee Chin Chuan, and for more than thirty years he has worked with wood, clay and bronze, breaking the constraints of formal and traditional Chinese woodcarving methods, to create sculptures with universal appeal.  Internationally renowned for his Taichi and Living World Series, Ju Ming has exhibitied widely in the Tokyo Central Musuem (1978), Ayala Museum in Manila (1984), Hakone Open-Air Museum in Japan (1995), Place Vendome in Paris (1997), Luxemborg City (1999) and in Brussels, Belgium (2000). The exhibition in Singapore is a joint project by Singapore Art Museum, Ju Ming Museum in Taipei and  iPreciation.

Art Education Gallery (AEG) & The Art Lab

… dedicated to student-learning and multidisciplinary interactions of art

SAM Galleries 9 & 10 and Corridors

Curator: Jean Wee

The Art Education Galleries (AEG) explicitly connect exhibition content with a museum learning experience.  Children may explore the art galleries on their own, try some hands on activities in the Art Lab or interact with teaching exhibits in the gallery corridors.  Exhibitions presented in these spaces are designed to provide multidisciplinary access points for students and young visitors to engage with art.  There are exhibition text to suggest ways of appreciating the artwork as well as educational information to leave students with questions to think about.

The Art Lab complements the experience with hands-on art making workshops for children ages 8 to 16 years (pre-registration required).  Age Groups: Primary and Secondary.

Selected corridor activities, comprising teaching and interactive exhibits, are designed for children ages 4 and above.

Past exhibitions in the AEG

The pilot exhibition, ART FIGURES: Mathematics in Art (April 02/May 03) introduces selected mathematical concepts in art, as well as highlights the visual beauty in mathematics. The exhibition features 14 art works and 9 interactive or activity stations. The two main themes are “Perspective” and “Shapes Symmetry and Sequence”.  There is explicit educational content for children as well as adults. Highlights include Do-it-Yourself Spatial tessellations, a Kaleidoscopic Tunnel, Drawing accurately using a replica of Durer's Draughtsman's Net, Fun with Three Dimensional Geometric Construction and more.  Artists include Chen Ching Swee, Hong Sek Chern, Ye Shufang, Victor Tan, John Low, Romeo Tabuena as well as selected prints by Anni Albers and William Crutchfield from SAM-Tyler Art Collection.

Ideas and Idealisation: Art Elective Programme Exhibition 2003, which is co-organised by Singapore Art Museum and Ministry of Education, features works by students from the very challenging Art Elective Programmes practised in 6 selected local schools and junior colleges.  The range typifies the scope and adventuresome nature of the programme’s participants, running the gamut from mixed media, installations, animation, sculpture, design and paintings.

Convergences of  Art, Science and Technology ( C.A.S.T )

9 September 2003 – September 2004

Art becomes the medium through which one can contemplate practices and discourse of science and technology, as well as consider its impact on society. Playful and creative expectations of the future invite your response, while hands-on stations provide interaction for technological interface with science and creativity, including student activities held in conjunction with the exhibition at the Art Lab.  This exhibition featured work by artists, in collaboration with scientists, computer engineers and medical professionals.  Their combined wide ranging fields of expertise are a social proposition of a converging future of art, science and technology.

Visual Arts Feste 04

1 October 2004 – 28 November 2004

SAM Galleries 1 – 8; SAM Upper and Lower Galleries; SAM Galleries 15 & 16

The Visual Arts Feste 2004 is a multi-venue exhibition with the Singapore Art Museum being the main venue.  The exhibition showcases international contemporary art development through an Asian perspective.  In addition to the main exhibition, the exhibition also links up with other biennales happening at the same time in the Asia Pacific region, through the organisation of a three-day symposium that involves Singapore and international speakers and attendees.  The exhibition will focus on visual art issues, design and architecture.

Visual Arts Feste 2004 is part of Design Design, and is proudly associated with DesignSingapore.

Tan Swie Hian

30 September – 28 November 2004

SAM Galleries 5, 6, 7 & 8

Curator: Low Sze Wee

Like all great artists, Tan Swie Hian’s work defies art historical categorisation and extends across various mediums.  The exhibition showcases about 40 recent works from this artist whose pieces reflect a profound understanding of literature and a fundamental philosophical orientation that is based on Buddhism and Asian aesthetic traditions.  This solo retrospective is a component of the Visual Arts Feste 04.

The exhibition is part of Design Design, and is proudly associated with DesignSingapore.

Botero

9 December 2004 to 27 February 2005

SAM Upper and Lower Galleries

An exhibition featuring the paintings and sculptures of Colombian painter Fernando Botero. Born in Medellin in 1932, his works have been exhibited and represented in collections throughout the world. His personal style developed at an early age is established and recognised internationally. The exhibition, a collaboration between the Singapore Art Museum and Valentine Willie will be presented at multiple venues including the museum and the Esplanade.

Travelling Exhibitions

15 Tracks : Contemporary Southeast Asian Art

11 July – 7 September 2003

Venue: Tama Art University Museum, Tokyo

18 December 2003 – 25 March 2004

Venue: Fukuoka Asian Art Museum

15 Tracks: Contemporary Southeast Asian Art, is an exhibition of 15 artists from the 10 Southeast Asian countries. Featuring paintings, sculptures, installation art and video works that reflect the diversity and heterogeneity of contemporary Southeast Asian art, the exhibition introduces Osman bin Bakir (Brunei Darussalam); Phy Chan Than (Cambodia); Apotik Komik Group and Krisna Murti (Indonesia); Khamsouk Keomingmuang (Laos P.D.R.); Hayati Mokhtar and Kumbu Anak Katu (Malaysia); M.P.P. Yei Myint (Myanmar); José Legaspi and Saudi Ahmad (Philippines); Heman Chong (Singapore); Jakapan Vilasineekul and Prasong Luemuong (Thailand); and Dinh Thi Tham Poong and Ha Tri Hieu (Vietnam).  A project of the ASEAN Committee on Culture and Information, 15 Tracks: Contemporary Southeast Asian Art, is organised by the Singapore Art Museum, the Japan Foundation and Tama Art University Museum in conjunction with the Japan-ASEAN Year of Exchange 2003. The exhibition will proceed to the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum on December 18, 2003 - March 25, 2004.