My daughter and I checked out the Art Stage at the Marina Bay Sands Expo today. It was a huge fair with around 150 galleries from around the globe participating. As such, we could not really explore all the galleries (a bit overwhelming for one afternoon), so what we did was take a quick tour, and lingered only on those that caught our interest more. There was a bunch of European galleries that represented the established (Chagall, Miro, Picasso, etc), but even without my prompting, little girl preferred to stick around longer in the contemporary art exhibits and the visual/digital/3D installations --- in between her main preoccupation that afternoon, i.e., collecting business/calling cards from the galleries.
Below are some of the stand outs:
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| Mark Justiniani's Echopraxia: Reflective media, light fixtures, and objects encased in black iron structure |
My daughter describes the above as magic because it is endless, and seems to go on and on! Such is the magic of Justiniani indeed :-)
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| A real Damien Hirst is likewise in the exhibit, but isn't this more ingenious, and something I can also do at home :-) This is also a great way of recycling Le Monde, or its equivalent in this side of the world |
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From time to time I come across some articles on the many ways to re-use mason jars - some people seem to be obsessed with them! Now here's 194 instant way to use them all!
Milky Way, installation of wood engravings in 194 jars: Manit Kantasak, Thailand. |
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| Bike on a wire? The artist created this illusion of shadow by using contrasting colors of steel wire (Shadow by Shi Jindian) |
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| My daughter, who was busy collecting calling/business cards, stopped for awhile and admired this one, mainly because of Dora I guess! (Artist - Ai Kijima) |
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| Kundalini by S.H. Raza - included in Delhi Art Gallery's Exhibit |
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| A woman hanging up the laundry - painting on urethane foam from Korea (Yi Hwan-Kwon) |
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| Shuttlecocks can also help you fly! (Zhou Wendou, China) |
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| For a while I thought I was seeing double. (Ling Jian - The Magic Flute) |
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| Secret life of bees no more |
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| Colorful one, isnt it...little girl also liked this...but not for the cartesian planes (Lai Chiu-Chen) |
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| Mona Lisa splashed (Farhan Siki, Indonesia) Spray paint on canvas |
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| These are small figurines |
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Bea Camacho's knitting, which apparently took 11 hours! such dedication. That's why I do admire artists so much.
Little girl's question: How will she come out of the net? Does she have scissors with her? (I hope Bea does!) |
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This is actually a bust. Ok, ok, you can also turn it into an accordion when you get tired of the stare-fest with the bust.
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