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ISBN: 9789810825652
Singapore Art Museum 
April 2009

Price: S$82.24
An Unbroken Line The Wu Guanzhong Donation Collection

Wu Guanzhong’s donation of 113 works to the Singapore Art Museum in 2008 is the highest valued donation presented to a public museum in Singapore. This exhibition will showcase all 113 works representing five decades of the artist’s creative oeuvre. A key significance of Wu Guanzhong’s art is the crossing and synthesising of the two art forms of ink and oil which represent art historical and aesthetic contexts of traditional Chinese and Western art. This exhibition is co-organised by Singapore Art Museum, Shanghai Art Museum and National Art Museum of China.

ISBN: 9789810826277

Paperback: 166 pages
Singapore Art Museum 
April 2009

Price: S$38.00
INROADS: The Ink Journey of Lim Tze Peng

The Singapore Art Museum (SAM) with the National Art Museum of China
(NAMOC) and the Liu Haisu Art Museum, is proud to jointly present Lim Tze
Peng's first solo show in China. The exhibition brings together his most
recent works, as well as earlier ones drawn from SAM's collection. The exhibition catalogue includes two essays - the first by Mr Kwok Kian Chow, Director of SAM, entitled "Realist Sojourn, Expressionist Return: The Art of Lim Tze Peng", and the second by Dr Zhu Qi, Cultural Counsellor of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Singapore, entitled "A Solitary Vessel in the Sea of Art - Some Words Before Lim Tze Peng Goes to China for His Solo Exhibition".


ISBN: 9789810826253

Paperback: 140 pages
Singapore Art Museum 
Mar 2009

Price: S$48.00

At Home Abroad

At Home Abroad brings ‘home’ recent works by Singaporean artists whose art practices are largely or partially based abroad, and who have exhibited frequently on overseas platforms. The 'home-coming' of these artworks adds a different dimension to local art discourse, in particular the migratory nature of contemporary art practice. The exhibition and its dedicated website will serve as a documentation of how these various artworks have been received, both at home and abroad .

Showcasing a variety of approaches and new media that interest these contemporary Singaporean artists, At Home Abroad features work by Choy Ka Fai, Jason Lim, Ming Wong, Sookoon Ang, and Zulkifle Mahmod.

Website: http://www.aha-blog.sg


ISBN: 9789810700386

Paperback: 96 pages
Singapore Art Museum 
Sep 2008

Price: S$29.90
8Q-Rate: School

8Q-Rate: School is the inaugural exhibition at 8Q sam, the Singapore Art Museum's new contemporary art space which opened in August 2008. Put together by 8 curators working closely with 8 local artists, the exhibition catalogue features site-specific installation works by Ahmad Abu Bakar, Chong Li-Chuan, Jahan Loh, Donna Ong, :phunk Studio, Grace Tan, Tan Kai Syng and Jason Wee. These works all make reference to the personal and generic experiences of school and school days, and expand on the themes of education, cultivation of knowledge, art as a discipline or field and changes in movements and schools over time. This catalogue features curatorial essays, artist statements and full colour photography of the installation art pieces.


ISBN: 9789810810320

Paper back: 196 pages
Singapore Art Museum 
Oct 2008

Price: S$ 64.48
Post-Doi Moi: Vietnamese Art after 1990

The exhibition Post-Doi Moi: Vietnamese Art after 1990 is held as part of the National Heritage Board’s Vietnam Festival 2008 in celebration of the 35th anniversary of Singapore-Vietnam diplomatic ties. It features over 60 paintings, sculptures and video works under four themes – Reminiscence, Land, Individual and Transformation. These themes are related to the art developments that took place in the Vietnam after the implementation of the Doi Moi (Renovation) campaign in 1986. The premise of the show is based on the assumption that the effect of the policy was evidenced by the establishment of the first private gallery in Hanoi in 1990. This implied that a free enterprise structure had emerged with the presence of an art market.

The curatorial report in the publication outlines the developments that took place in Vietnam following the launch of the Doi Moi campaign. It offers a critical perspective into the trends observed, and the ups and downs of the growing international art market as well as insights into the contemporary art scenes in both Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. The art works selected for the exhibition exemplifies the observations made in this area of focus, and colour plates of the exhibits are included in the publication. The report is supplemented with brief articles on various aspects of the art scene, ranging from lacquer painting to the establishment of the Vietnam Fine Arts Association. There is also a detailed timeline from the colonial period until 1990 that provides the historical context to the understanding of the developments that have taken place afterwards.

Included in this publication is a summary report on the exchange programme Ket Noi: Singapore-Vietnam Performance Art Event. This exchange took between 27 May and 8 June 2008 where a 10-day workshop culminated in a 3-day art performance happenings. A separate publication on the documentation of the workshops and art performances is expected to be launched early next year.

This 196-page Post-Doi Moi publication is therefore the first of a series of three planned for the exhibition project. The remaining publication, Symposium on Modern and Contemporary Vietnamese Art Proceedings is also expected to be on sale early next year.


ISBN: 9789810813833
Paper back: 114 pages
Singapore Art Museum 
Oct 2008

Price: S$ 60.00
Masriadi: Black is My Last Weapon

Masriadi: Black is My Last Weapon, desires to evoke and present a striking portrait of Masriadi through the displayed works and the exhibition design. Out of the more than hundred paintings that Masriadi has produced in approximately ten years of working as a painter, the curators have assembled more than 30 works in four thematic sections: Hitam Adalah Senjata Terakhir Aku (Black Is My Last Weapon), which traces the evolution of what has become the artist's signature black-skinned figures. These figures inhabit different identities and personalities in each of his canvases; they date as far back as the beginning of his career as a painter in 1998 to some of the paintings completed in the last two years with an illusionistic emphasis on figurative mass; Geli-Geli (Ticklish), which makes reference to the elements of humour and the comical in Masriadi's paintings; Saya Yang Dapat! (I Got It!), which focuses upon Masriadi's interest in conditions and situations in everyday life where power relations are played out and Memperjuangkan Lukisan (Fighting to Paint), which gathers a number of works that reveals Masriadi's thoughts and opinions on being an artist whose career is inevitably bound to painting, critics, collectors, and writers. This catalogue includes an essay by noted curator and writer Dwi Marianto.
The Artists Village

The Artists Village (TAV) was formed within a rural-scape (or kampung) at 61-B Lorong Gambas, Sembawang in 1988. TAV engendered radical shifts in generating new ways and manners of thinking and making art in the history of contemporary art in Singapore. They are also known for producing works that are intellectually challenging and engaged with current issues in the late 1980s, a period marked by a sense of urgency and impetus for artists to critically re-look and examine existing assumptions, values and concepts of art-making. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the TAV’s establishment and offers historical distance to evaluate and examine the significance of it as part of the Singapore Art Museum’s series of exhibitions on artists’ collectives.
This catalogue includes critical essays by noted art historians curators and critics such as C.J. Wan-Ling Wee, T.K. Sabapathy, Russell Storer and others. Documentary materials such as newspaper articles on TAV and archival photographs of performances and other events organized by TAV will also be featured in the catalogue.


ISBN: 9789810801809
Paper back: 344 pages
Singapore Art Museum 
Apr 2008

Price: S$ 90.00
Xu Beihong in Nanyang

Xu Beihong (1895-1953) is regarded as one of the most seminal figures in the history of modern Chinese painting. Apart from his larger than life persona and dramatic life story spanning continents and wars, he was one of the first to articulate the need for artistic expressions that reflected a new modern China at the beginning of the 20th century. As one of the earliest Chinese artists to be trained in Europe, he was instrumental in promoting the
use of scientific realism and. the direct study of nature to rejuvenate ink painting.

Jointly organised by Singapore Art Museum and Xu Beihong Museum, this exhibition features about 90 works, selected from both public and private collections from around the world. It serves as an unprecedented opportunity to examine many of Xu's most important works completed in Southeast Asia and India, a number of which have never been publicly exhibited before.


ISBN: 9789810576233
Paperback: 116 pages
Singapore Art Museum 
2006
Price: S$ 20.00

Telah Terbit (Out Now) Southeast Asian Contemporary Art Practices During the 1960s to 1980s
by Ahmad Mashadi

This publication is the documentation of the exhibition held at the Singapore Art Museum from 1 Sept - 12 Nov 2006. Presented as a special exhibition of the Singapore Biennale 2006, Telah Terbit was intended as a historical background to contemporary art in Southast Asia, featuring works from the collections of Singapore Art Museum, National Art Gallery of Malaysia, National Museum and Ateneo Art Gallery of the Philippines, artists and private collectors.


ISBN: 9810086695
Hardback: 132 pages
Singapore Art Museum 
1997
Price: S$40.00 

Thomas Yeo: A Retrospective
by Sabapathy, T.K.

A first full-length detailed study of the art of Thomas Yeo covering 39 years of his practice.Yeo is known as an abstract artist.The beginnings of his art are found in representional schemes;it also reveals his deep involvement in the depiction of the human figures.Yeo's art is characterised by continuous,consistent development producing a body of distinctive works

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