A new festival planned to celebration National Gallery Singapore’s first anniversary is set to return year after year, bringing a playful vibe to the renowned museum. The Gallery Light To Night Festival brings together musical performances, interactive art exhibits, and a lot of fun for visitors to the facility, ensuring that the event will be on tap for years to come, entertaining both newcomers and repeat fans of the museum.
The majority of the exhibits that will be on display as a part of the celebratory event are inspired by the works contained in National Gallery Singapore, which houses the biggest collection of Southeast Asian art in the entire world. A museum official says that the festival is something special the museum planned to give back to its supporters, whose visits made the facility a resounding success. The museum saw a million and a half visitors in its first year of being open.
While National Gallery Singapore has seen some challenges with visitors touching artworks that aren’t meant to be interacted with in a hands-on way, many of the works for the Gallery Light To Night Festival welcome interaction with participants. There are also many humorous references to more serious masterpieces inside the museum. One piece is a cardboard rendering of a pagoda-style robot, which echoes an oil painting with pagodas as the subject within the museum.
Another homage to a painting of an artist and his model has undergone the yarn-bombing treatment by a Singapore chapter of the movement, which uses art and crochet work to cover everything from trees and bicycles to apparently works of art. This exhibit is organized in conjunction with an interactive workshop that shows participants how to create their own yarn-bombed masterpieces.
Yet another exhibit wouldn’t be as special if people didn’t touch and interact with it. “Affinity” is a multi-colored piece with giant spheres attached to each other with long poles, almost like a molecular representation of a substance. Visitors touch the globes to have them change colors, constantly changing the look of the sculpture.
Other high points of the festival include an enormous light show featuring tubes of paint and paintbrushes in the city hall area of National Gallery Singapore. Film screening and musical acts will help round out the special event.
Celebrate a year of National Gallery Singapore by enrolling in an art class today. Visit SGArtClass.com to see the wealth of art classes available to you. Whether you’re interested in oil painting or assemblage art, digital art or portrait drawing, there is a class that you will enjoy. Instead of going out with your friends for another night out on the weekend, consider signing everyone up for an art class. Together, you can complete projects and make lasting memories while possibly uncovering a passion for art you were never aware of before.
To read more about what will be included in the new festival at National Gallery Singapore, go to http://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/arts/party-till-3am-at-national-gallery-singapore.