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5/7/2012

Two exhibitions

Singapore Art Museum, Singapore

Lyrical Abstraction
Works by Jeremy Sharma & Yeo Shih Yun

In this exhibition, the works of two young Singaporean painters with very different painting styles will be showcased – Jeremy Sharma with oil on metal panels and Yeo Shih Yun with contemporary ink and new media. On this occasion, the Singapore Art Museum (SAM) has commissioned the two artists to create monumental scale painting installations in the museum alongside Chinese artist Jia Aili. Both the young Singaporean artists demonstrate creativity and the ability to shape seemingly conventional art techniques into witty and ironic new forms of ‘painting’.

Jeremy Sharma’s painting installation, Kurosawa, offers a different view of painting, to oil on canvas paintings. Paint is poured on aluminium panels rather than on a cotton canvas, and allowed to drip at varying speeds. The pouring and dripping technique is reminiscent of western modern painters such as Jackson Pollock and Robert Motherwell, while the work’s abstract nature made up of mainly white and black washes is inspired by the Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa (for whom the installation is also named after), whose films played much on the use of colours and shadows, and in which light and darkness were metaphors for good and evil respectively.

Yeo Shih Yun reinterprets Chinese ink painting by ingeniously incorporating silkscreen, performance and new media to recast this age old art form in a new guise. Yeo attempts to create marks done in Chinese ink by tying hair brushes to trees and allowing the natural swaying of the branches to create the marks. She then processes these ‘acts of nature’ on silkscreen, and combines them to create a completely new work that while abstract in nature, looks remarkably like a traditional Chinese ink painting.

Artist Presentation
Join local artists Jeremy Sharma and Yeo Shih Yun as they speak about their commissioned works of art for the exhibition Lyrical Abstraction: Works by Jeremy Sharma and Yeo Shih Yun, as well as their artistic practice.
Sat, 14 Jul | 4pm – 5pm | Glass Hall, SAM Free admission. Registration required. Please email nhb_sam_programs@nhb.gov.sg

Lyrical Abstraction: Works by Jeremy Sharma & Yeo Shih Yun is a parallel exhibition held in conjunction with Seeker of Hope: Works by Jia Aili.


Credit Suisse: Innovation In Art Series
Seeker of Hope: Works by Jia Aili

The Singapore Art Museum (SAM) and Credit Suisse are proud to present Seeker of Hope: Works by Jia Aili as part of the Credit Suisse “Innovation in Art” series. Since shifting its focus to contemporary art in 2009, SAM’s take on contemporary art has emphasised the importance of contemporary Asian art as an expression of the rapid cultural, economic and political changes in Asia. To this effect, SAM has presented an annual exhibition featuring regional artists whose works can be seen as meditations on social and cultural transformations, as well as an extension of the possibilities of their chosen medium of art practice. Seeker of Hope: Works by Jia Aili will present Jia’s works that are his personal reflections on post-millennium changes in China and art in the globalised world.

The exhibition will showcase close to 50 artworks, including epic-scale, visually stunning oil paintings, video installations and delicate paper works.

Born in 1979, into a time of rapid economic reforms and a year after the one-child policy was introduced in China, Jia expresses in his paintings his feelings as a young Chinese growing up in the 80s, with no political baggage yet facing loneliness and solitude at times. Coming from a generation of Chinese artists steeped in Western art history, Jia draws from classical Western painting methods, producing artworks which layer concepts of world art history together with his own personal histories and experiences in modern China, speaking of how people of his generation deal with modernity and tradition.

Seeker of Hope: Works by Jia Aili showcases the seductive visual style in Jia’s works and broadly explores themes and ideas on Romanticism; the power of nature; technological and scientific advancements; human mortality and death; the costs of industrialisation and the human condition.

Image: Works by Jeremy Sharma & Yeo Shih Yun

Press contact:
Yeo Li Li - Manager Marketing & Corporate Communications Singapore Art Museum
DID: 6332 6799 Email: yeo_li_li@nhb.gov.sg
Kim May - Assistant Director Marketing & Corporate Communications Singapore Art Museum
DID: 6332 3869 Email: kim_may@nhb.gov.sg

Singapore Art Museum
71 Bras Basah Road, Singapore 189555
Open daily 10am to 7pm (last admission at 6.15pm), until 9pm on Fridays.
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