From 8 – 11 Oct, the gallery will be taking part in the 2nd edition of Art Silicon Valley, a new art fair centrally located between Silicon Valley and San Francisco. This year, the boutique event will showcase modern and contemporary art from fifty international galleries. iPreciation will be featuring works by Ju Ming, Gao Xingjian, Milenko Prvacki, Tay Bak Chiang and Wee Kheng-li. www.artsvfair.com
Chen Sai Hua Kuan, Ling Ting 2 installation at the Grand Palais, Paris.
iPRECIATION is pleased to announce its participation in the 2015 edition of Art Paris Art Fair.
Exhibition period: 26–29 March 2015
Vernissage (by invitation only): 25th March, 6–10pm
Venue: Grand Palais
Avenue Winston Churchill, 75008 Paris
Opening Hours:
Thursday 26 March, 11:30am–8pm
Friday 27 March, 11:30am–10pm
Saturday 28 March, 11:30am–8pm
Sunday 29 March, 11:30am–7pm
Art Paris Art Fair: Singapore and Southeast Asia Guests of Honour
This year’s edition of Art Paris Art Fair places Singapore and Southeast Asia on the guests-of-honour platform, aiming to showcase the best art pieces from this region. Beyond its commercial platform, Art Paris Art Fair is dedicated to presenting and promoting art scenes of the east. In the past two years, Art Paris Art Fair introduced some of the best global contemporary art from Russia and China art to the Parisian and European audiences through its curated platforms. This year the focus will be on Singapore and Southeast Asian art. This is in conjunction with Singapore’s 50th birthday, where cultural programmes have been lined up in France for the Year of Singapore to celebrate 50 years of independence of the city-state.
Monumental Singapore Art Commission for the Entrance Steps of Grand Palais, Paris
One of these is a curated project under the aegis of Art Paris Art Fair: a monumental Singapore art commission for the Entrance Steps of the Grand Palais. Appointed curator Iola Lenzi has selected the interactive installation work of iPreciation’s Singapore artist Chen Sai Hua Kuan (b.1976), whose art piece entitled Ling Ting 2 聆听 (in Hanyu Pinyin, means ‘Listening’) will be the talked-about entrance piece at the Grand Palais.
On the significance of this prestigious space for the art commission, curator Iola Lenzi says, “…The location of the commission, the entrance forecourt of the Paris landmark the Grand Palais, is among the most sought-after and visible public spaces in the French capital…”
Consisting of two colossal speakers, Ling Ting 2 is an interactive sound sculpture that encourages self-discovery. When standing in the middle of the sculpture, the interconnected structure diverts the voice of the viewer to his/her own ears. It offers the viewer a singular experience allowing him/her off-track to think critically about just what it is that makes listening so powerful and so elusive. Our sonic environment is very complex in which sound is produced by nearly every action and movement. The identification of sound is an act of listening. At infinite levels, as John Cage discovered, sound needs special equipment or rooms to be noticed audibly. Ling Ting No.2 is playfully and engagingly conceptualized to create such an infinite space to inspire an act of listening – an intense listening experience that involves the sound of daily life of one’s own thought.
In curator Iola Lenzi’s essay on Chen Sai Hua Kuan’s work, she writes:
“… Singapore’s Hua Kuan Sai’s grandiose outdoor installation, Ling Ting 2 聆听 (‘Listening’) entices the audience bodily into a poised dialogue with him or herself. Viewers enter Sai’s piece erected at the entrance of the Grand Palais, Ling Ting doing its work to open up new spaces of hearing and contemplation. The interactive installation‘s visual appeal, with its sensually organic volutes like seashells clasped to the ear, draws the public in. The work produces a serene, enduring participative experience beyond the visual as it enlists sound, time, and space as well. This form of artistic construction, co-opting all the senses as well as audience and public space, is common to many artists of the region…..”
The National Arts Council and National Heritage Board support this project and the artist who will be presenting his work in Paris this March.
iPreciation’s Exhibition Booth Presentation
In view of the sophisticated French audience and European collectors, iPreciation aims to present the best of our key contemporary Singapore artists who occupy a significant place in Singapore’s contemporary art scene and history. The works in the show will feature pioneer contemporary artist Tang Dawu’s ink works; Cultural Medallion recipients Milenko Prvacki’s large abstract paintings and Lee Wen’s provocative performance photographs; new paintings of well-collected local artists Boo Sze Yang and Tay Bak Chiang; and conceptually-driven photography works by Wee Kheng-Li, Wang Ruobing and Chen Sai Hua Kuan. Apart from presenting the works of Singapore artists, iPreciation will also feature Hong Kong artist Tse Yim On’s playful pop-art pieces and Taiwanese sculptor Ju Ming’s Taichi Series and Living World Series (whose work has been an inspiration to some of our artists). With the increased interest of International crowds and collectors in Southeast Asian contemporary art, this show will represent the great talents and energies that circulate our region.
Preview of artworks
Ju Ming (b.1938 Taiwan)
Tang Da Wu (b.1943 Singapore)
Milenko Prvacki (b.1951 Yugoslavia)
Lee Wen (b.1957 Singapore)
Boo Sze Yang (b.1965 Singapore)
Wee Kheng-Li (b.1971 Singapore)
Tay Bak Chiang (b.1973 Singapore)
Tse Yim On (b.1974 Hong Kong)
Wang Ruobing (b.1975 China)
Chen Sai Hua Kuan (b.1976 Singapore)
Installation views of Ling Ting 2
Description: Ling Ting 2, 2015, 500 x 300 x 450 cm, Steel and enamel paint
Gallery Booth installation views
About Art Paris Art Fair
Art Paris Art Fair is the springtime event for modern, contemporary art and design. It is dedicated to the promotion and discovery of the art scenes of the East. Art Paris Art Fair is an invitation to experience a new geography of the art world that passes through Moscow, Sarajevo, Beijing, Singapore… The fair brings together 140 international galleries from 20 countries in Paris, presenting a wide panaroma of modern and contemporary art including photography, design and art publishing. The fair is housed in one of Paris‘ grandest and most famous public buildings, the Grand Palais, constructed as a marker of French 19th century cultural and imperial power. Today the Grand Palais is home to public art and cultural expositions of the highest calibre. This event is under the patronage of the President of the French Republic, Monsieur Francois Hollande and the Minister of Culture and Communication, Madame Fleur Pellerin.
For more information of the fair please visit the official website: http://artparis.fr/en
iPRECIATION is proud to announce that Lee Wen’s Ping Pong Go-Round will be exhibited at Art Basel Hong Kong 2014’s ‘Encounter’, a curated sector featuring 17 large scale, ambitious installation works.
As a sport, ping pong is said to be almost equal for the women’s game as compared to that of the man’s. A game commonly played in China and Singapore, ping pong requires a minimum of two players, constituting a form of dialogue between the players on opposite sides as the ball bounces back and forth.
In this work, the structure and rules of ping pong are reinvented in the context of contemporary possibilities as the artist seeks alternative models of interaction. By reinventing the shape of a traditional ping pong table to that not unlike a conference table with no borders on its left and right, Lee Wen offers a different perception of its limitations and opens multiple possibilities for broader dialogue. As opposed to traditional, rectangular-shaped ping pong tables, Ping Pong Go-Round is at once a multi-player game and a dialogue between numerous people, regardless of gender and age around a donut-shaped table.
First enacted in April 1998 Melbourne Australia, during an International event “Construction in Process VI – The Bridge”, Lee Wen’s new take on ping pong has since gained attention from international media. Moreover, as Ping Pong Go-Round continues to be featured in exhibitions around the world, the work has invited and encouraged dialogue and challenge through sport and games.
Ping-Pong Go Round has also been presented in:
1. “Lee Wen: Lucid Dreams In The Reverie Of The Real” , Singapore Art Museum, Singapore, 20 April – 10 June 2012
2. 7th Kuala Lumpur Triennial BARRICADE, PUBLIKA, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 16 February – 02 March 2013
2. “The Realm in the Mirror, the Vision out of Image”, Suzhou Jinji Lake Art Museum, Suzhou, China, 9 May 2013 – 18 August 2013
3. “Concept Context Contestation: Art and the collective in Southeast Asia”, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand, 13 December 2013 – 2 March 2014
Lee Wen is a contemporary Singapore artist who is well-known for his work inperformance art. His performances are deeply engaged in the social and political complexities of the region. This is exemplified in perhaps
his most famous series, “Journey of a Yellow Man”, in which he painted his body with yellow paint, a symbolic reference to his ethnic identity.
In May, iPRECIATION is presenting a solo exhibition of Lee Wen’s works at Art Basel Hong Kong 2014. This exhibition will feature some of Lee Wen’s most important works, including selected photographs from his ’Journey of a Yellow Man series, ‘Splash!’, ‘Strange Fruit’, acrylic on canvas body prints from ‘Anthropometry Revision’, as well as recent works including selected drawings and ’Yellow on Yellow: Dreamboat’, which is especially made for this exhibition. Most of the photographs have been reprinted as museum-quality, fine art prints for this exhibition.
Lee Wen’s ’Ping Pong Go-Round’, a donut-shaped ping pong table, will be exhibited at Encounters, which is a curated sector featuring 17 ambitious, large-scale installation works.
Lee Wen (b. 1957) is a Singaporean multidisciplinary artist working on social identity themes. After leaving a banking career to enroll at LASALLE College of the Arts, Lee graduated with a Masters of Fine Art in 2006. Lee Wen is a member of The Artists Village and the Black Market performance collective. He was co-organizer of Future of Imagination, an international performance art event in 2003, and also initiated R.I.T.E.S.-Rooted in the Ephemeral Speak, a platform to develop and promote performance art, discourse, and discussion in Singapore in 2009. He has held numerous solo exhibitions and participated in various international group shows, biennales and festival. He was the recipient of Singapore’s Cultural Medallion in 2005. Lee Wen has exhibited widely, with his most recent solo exhibition “The Breath of a Blade” at the Jendela Visual Arts Space Esplanade, Singapore in 2013 as well as “Lee Wen: Lucid Dreams in the Reverie of the Real” by the Singapore Art Museum in 2012
In Search for the Finest Chinese Art- Join us at New York this March where iPRECIATION will be embarking on an inaugural appearance at the Bridge Art Fair, to be held at ‘The Tunnel’. We will be marking this debut with a showcase by five notable mainland and overseas Chinese artists.
Expressing their unique visions via highly inimitable pieces, Nobel Laureate Gao Xingjian, multi-award winning sculptors Ju Ming and Cheung Yee will have their foremost artworks on display. iPRECIATION will also be exhibiting highly contemporary pieces by Zhang Jian-Jun and Ye Jian Qing. The former was commissioned to create a sculpture at the Golden Globe Awards Party in 2007, having received previous paramount exposure through exhibitions worldwide. The latter, Ye Jian Qing, is a rare talent in today’s fast- paced and extensive Contemporary art scene. A scholar artist and a PhD holder, Ye creates artworks that draw viewership through unorthodox strokes that chart the fragile relationship between painting and photography, his oil pieces fusing two delicate themes with passion and efficacy.
We hope you will be able to join us in New York this spring. For further information regarding artworks or details of the art fair, please contact enquiry@ipreciation.com or 65 6339 0678
SINGAPORE – To be held in Seoul, Korea from 9 to 13 May 2007, the Korea International Art Fair (KIAF) is an art event that is not to be missed, attributed to KIAF’s positive reputation in the Asian art scene. For the first time since its inception, iPRECIATION will be exhibiting a selection of spectacular art works by 10 of the gallery’s renowned artists. This includes prominent names such as Nobel Laureate Gao Xingjian, famous Taiwanese sculptor Ju Ming, and the pioneer in the Hong Kong contemporary art movement Cheung Yee. iPRECIATION will also be exhibiting art works by Hung Liu, Zhang Jian-Jun, Ye Jian Qing, Budi Ubrux, Tse Yim On, and Riki Antoni.
Moreover, art aficionados can look forward to a new series of works, created especially for the art fair, geared with an array of arresting themes that will capture the artist’s astounding developments, and further highlight upon their inimitable techniques.
Artists:
Ju Ming (1938, Taiwan)
Zhang Jian-Jun (1955, China)
Gao Xingjian (1940, France)
Cheung Yee (1936, Hong Kong)
Ye Jian Qing (1972, China)
Tse Yim On (1974, Hong Kong)
Hung Liu (1948, China)
Budi Ubrux (1968, Indonesia)
Riki Antoni (1977, Indonesia)
For further information or artwork enquiry
please contact enquiry@ipreciation.com or 65 6339 0678
iPRECIATION is pleased to announce our participation in the 2007 edition of Art Taipei, which will be held in May. We will be representing artists Cheung Yee, Wang Weixin, Zhang Jian-Jun, Ye Jian Qing, Hung Liu, Tse Yim On, Budi Ubrux and Riki Antoni, all of whom will be preparing new masterpieces for this grand occasion.
Artists:
Cheung Yee (1936, Hong Kong)
Wang Weixin (1938, China)
Zhang Jian-Jun (1955, China)
Ye Jian Qing (1972, China)
Hung Liu (1948, China)
Tse Yim On (1974, Hong Kong)
Budi Ubrux (1968, Indonesia)
Riki Antoni (1977, Indonesia)
For further information or artwork enquiry
please contact enquiry@ipreciation.com or 65 6339 0678
Singapore – September 2007 is an event-packed month for iPRECIATION!
Following the Irene Chou solo exhibition at The Rotunda in Hong Kong, we will be showcasing our feature works at Art Beijing 2007, the country’s foremost exposition for modern and contemporary Chinese art. Art Beijing gains exclusivity through its stringent selection procedures, where only 100 galleries, out of a staggering 200 plus applicants, are given concession to participate in the show.
Executive Director of Art Beijing, Dong Mengyang, highlighted in an interview with CRIENGLISH.com, that 40% of total participants will consist of Chinese galleries, whereas Western and Asian galleries will account for the bulk, each region with a 30% hold. iPRECIATION’s success for securing a spot at the exposition, that is limited to only 30 galleries from across Asia, excluding China, is evident of the gallery’s rising status.
There will be a showcase of the finest selection of works from our panel of distinctive artists, including Ye Jian Qing, Nobel Laureate Gao Xing Jian, as well as master sculptors Ju Ming & Cheung Yee. The fair will be held at the National Agricultural Exhibition Center.
We hope you will be able to join us in Beijing from 19 to 23 September 2007, to view the most exquisite art works by our prominent artists.
For further information or artwork enquiry please contact enquiry@ipreciation.com or 65 6339 0678
iPRECIATION will be participating in CIGE 2005 at the China World Trade Center, Beijing, this coming May, and it gives us great pleasure to invite you to join us at our booth (No. 62). Notable works by Ju Ming, featuring the artist’s renowned Taichi Series, and Cheung Yee’s Cast Paper on Wood will be showcased, as their creations make an inaugural feature at this major art exposition in China
For more information on CIGE 2005, please visit www.cige-bj.com, or contact us via phone or email at 65 6339 0678 or enquiry@ipreciation.com
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