Art Apart Fair is set to take place at PARKROYAL hotel this month
The third edition of the popular art fair will take place at PARKROYAL on Pickering from Jan 17-19 with noteworthy works from around the world.
It's been a busy (but fun) couple of days, what with all the art hopping we've been doing. We popped by the opening of Angles of Incidence, a stunning, futuristic-looking collab between local architect Randy Chan and UK artist Philippa Lawrence. Be sure to go to Botanic Gardens' Bandstand by March 23 to catch it in full splendor.






Artist Hong Sek Chern drew inspiration for her solo exhibition from Spanish painter Francisco Goya, whose etching "The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters" dwells on the idea of sleep.
Depicting how city folk struggle to rest, the paintings are thought provoking with the artists's signature multi-point perspective. Notable works that caught out attention were "Celestial Mansion" and "Sleepless in Bedok". Some paintings were also inspired by recent events, such as "Jiat and Kopi", based on the hawker center cleaning debate between the government and the opposition Workers' Party.



We checked out some of the first exhibitions to open for Singapore Art Week (January 13-19) at two Gillman Barracks galleries, ARNDT and Sundaram Tagore Gallery. At the former is German sculptor Stephan Balkenhol's first solo show in Singapore. Although he is already a veteran in the European arts scene, his work has never before been showcased on its own in Southeast Asia. So it was clearly pretty exciting. The works, mainly statuettes of ordinary people, were superb.



