A pair of French artists — one a sculptor and the other a photographer — will have collections of their work on display at the Opera Gallery Singapore. Though both are from France, this is the first time they will be on display together.
Sculptor Mauro Corda works in cold mediums — steel, bronze, and other immovable metals and rocks — that contrast sharply with his playful subjects. Many of his figures are strangely contorted in ways that only professional circus performers might be able to do. However, in spite of their contortions, the subjects are doing such mundane things as examining a smartphone. Another sculpture of a contortionist shows the back bent completely and the subject resting his face in his hands, bored even though his entire world is upside down. People aren’t his only mode of communication. In another piece of display as a part of the exhibit, Corda has constructed a ferocious, long-fanged bear out of white resin roaring for eternity.
Photographer Gerard Rancinan, who has covered a variety of world events through his lens, has instead displayed some of his more surreal photos as a part of the Opera Gallery Singapore exhibit. One of them features a group of five boys in club uniform but all wearing Batman masks, posed by a tent perhaps on a camping vacation. On the other side of the tent is an adult leader of the club, also in uniform and batman mask. The shot has been highly stylized and includes a dog eating from a bowl, a kite flying in the sky, and gray, stormy-looking clouds. The background is a flawless white. Another photo features what appears to be a family of people wearing business clothes with cardboard boxes upended over their heads. Each one bears a pair of television antenna and a message — news, fashion, play, and dream. The true message behind this photograph is open to interpretation, but one might guess that these words are the most important things each person gleans when consuming media. To the right of the composition, a dalmatian dog sniffs at the family. Again, the background is completely white.
Both of the artists have had past shows at the Opera Gallery Singapore venue.
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