Art Stage Singapore is one of the country’s most prestigious art shows, and this year is no different. A number of renowned galleries and artists from around the world will be present, exhibiting artwork that is sure to dazzle and delight the many visitors who will get the opportunity to see it.
One interesting mixed media piece that will be on display is a richly textured composition that includes everything from ephemeral sunflowers and straw to wire and tar. The wild variety of mediums work together to create almost a collage of ideas. Wire and tar are modern mediums, evoking construction and advancement and urban spaces. Sunflowers and straw are temporary, alive, expressing the transience of life and nature. The overall sense of the work is of progress and stillness, juxtapositions that exist, at least for this masterpiece, on the same canvas.
Another classic piece from a classic American artist is interesting not for its complexity, but its simplicity. Completed in part by ink, a grouping of simple pyramids stand around a blue and red target stretching on the ground. Behind the composition, a yellow sun with thick red tendrils stretches out. All of the lines in the work are clean and minimal, and it is up to the viewer of the work to decide what all the shapes and the way they work together mean. Why do the pyramids seem to be waiting around the target? Why is the sun so large? What is targeting the target?
In another, more organic work by the same artist, red, white, blue, and black circles dot a sandy background. One of the circles is actually a coiled black spiral. Bisecting the canvas is a meandering black line, the edges bleeding out. It has been constructed with watercolor, the technique discernible by the application of water on the edges, which give the black pigment freedom to travel. The effect is that of a river seen on a map or from the air, dark tributaries stretching outward to the circles.
In a 3-D sculpture offering from another artist, a generously proportioned woman poses in a seated position, hand resting on a raised knee, one leg crossed over the other. She looks away, into the distance, a hand touching her hair. Though the color of the sculpture is black, it is actually cast in bronze, adding a special weight to the woman. One wonders what she’s looking at, the significance of her stance, the importance of her. Other viewers might simply admire the sculpture for what it is — a beautifully shaped, interesting work of art.
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To see a slideshow with some of the notable artworks that will be on display as a part of Art Stage Singapore, go to http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/2808753/exhibitors-at-art-stage-singapore-2018.