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Exhibitions - Singapore Bienalle 2011

Wednesday, August 24, 2011♥

8:07 PM

On this rainy day, we went to the Singapore Bienalle 2011, in this exhibition, we don't see any breathtaking, well modelled oil paintings or meticulously sculpted figures. Of the works we saw, there was more conceptual rather than focusing on the visual aesthetic quality , it was different from what I had expected but it gave me a new outlook on the concept of 'art'.

This artwork below exhibits the goods that are commonly found in activities of our daily lives and the concept is focused on that of a hardware store.

This artwork reminds me of the art movement - Dadaism, where artists also use ready-made items which are usually mass manufactured and claim it as his artwork. In this case the artist, Michael Lin has done something similar by using the many variations of manufactured items and placing it neatly side by side.

Below, this artwork takes up pretty much a whole room, and is made out of really Huge pillars of paper covering rolled up chicken wire. It resembles scaffolding and may also suggest a work-in-progress although it is a finished artwork.

Yes, these boxes do have rather nasty holes, but personally, I think those holes and cracks are actually artistic in the same sense as abstract paint splashes on canvas. They are accidental, you can never plan what cracks where and at the same time, it creates a unique texture.

It's like keeping the sea right under your desktop.

Even iPhones are instruments for art.

Hanging.. belts! It was only under close scrutiny that I realised those were actually belts and not random strips that hung from the ceiling.. The lighting has also cast shadows of the belts, creating interesting silhouettes of the belts.

Scribbles, they are art too. According to the guides, the artist had been there personally to draw whatever she saw outside on those very windows. It's a site-specific work as the work has a direct link and connection to the location itself and wouldn't be as significant anywhere else.

Very minimalistic blocks of colours.

I like this artist. He has not only meticulously handdrawn all these buildings/houses, but it has a story behind it too. It seems like he has a phobia of entering buildings, and so everytime before he entered an unfamiliar one, he had to draw it, in a way get to know it, before entering. Can you imagine drawing every single building you've been in so far?

Falling text, all sorts of words falling down, forming ambiguous shapes.

This is a hairy affair, cheesy, but really, those long ropes, braided and tied are indeed, human hair.
Those ropes of hair are then entangled and hung around the room.
Hair - Everyone has them (well, almost) yet in such a scenario, it really is extraordinary.

Specially like the piece below, it has a surreal quality to it - much like the movie Inception.
And it is entirely made out of cardboard!

Works by Students, this one here has an Odyssey of the Mind Trophy.. I know because I have them too..

Here is an installation, it's rather abstract, not quite sure what it's meant to represent, but it allows interaction in the way we can literally walk along the work..