Art Stage Singapore

There have been quite some big art events in Singapore, the last 3 months.

Ofcourse there was the Biennale, that I already covered on this blog.

I missed The Affordable Art Fair, but was happy to read that due to it’s success they are going to organize another one in a couple of months from now. Hopefully I will be able to catch that one.

And then there was the three-day art fair “Art Stage Singapore”.

It was held in the expo halls from Marina Bay Sands and it was huge! I was totally overwhelmed, walking in the enormous space. For a minute I stood there, wondering where to begin and how to ‘(dis-)cover’ all this art.

This fair is mainly focussed on Asian art, but there was some european art as well.

Let me show you some of the art that caught my eye:

Giant bamboo installation at the entrance.

Without being aware of it in advance, I turned out to be especially drawn to art that involved fabrics and embroidery.

I loved this installation.

This piece was amazing! First I thought I was looking at a hologram. A closer inspection showed that I was dealing with several layers of veil-like fabric on which an image was painted.
The way the layers were draped in front of each other gave a transparent 3D image. Very intriguing!
Believe me; it looked better in reality.

Being so charmed by art using fabric came a bit as a surprise to me. The same can not be said of my attraction to the works of the mysterious norwegian streetartist Dolk.

His art is totally up my alley and I would purchase these works right away, if I would be a rich art collector with a gigantic house.

So very, very cool, Dolk’s art!

I have seen wings made out of thongs, which were quite spectacular. This time there were wings made out of badminton shuttles. Love it!

These strange creatures were intriguing:

A whale with a ship inside.

A fish with air capsule eyes.

These creatures are not weird, but I liked them anyways;-):

The colors and materials (paper and print) of the following art works I find very appealing:

I was already familiar with the following Thai artist: Manit Sriwanichpoom. The pink man is a recurring theme in his work.

I spoke with the australian woman that made this work, Kristin McIver. Sometimes explanations about art just sounds like b***sh*t. Fancy talk. Blabla. Other times, like in this case, it adds to the appreciation of a specific artwork.

Thought Piece. This work is about ‘data’, FaceBook status updates, diaries, etc.

It seems she sold several works during Art Stage.
As did many other artists. Wow, when you read how many works were bought for how much money…incredible!!!!

The next two works are ‘just’ regular (as far as the used medium goes, that is) paintings that I like.

There is more art that I would like to share with you, but I leave that for another post.

CurlyTraveller the Art Lover says bye!
(for today;-))

Yeah, good question. What’s art? We were with friends and observing our different tastes and different likes in the art we saw, we ended up having a discussion around that question. More about that in one of my next posts about Art Stage.

Which art works appealed to you? Which one is your favorite? Would you buy any, if you had the money?