Singapore Art Week 2014: Fun in the park, dinner parties and Art Stage

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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.

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Angles of Incidence, Singapore
STB's Art Week media luncheon, Singapore
Art Stage 2014, Singapore
Art Stage 2014, Singapore
Art Stage 2014, Singapore

Singapore Art Week 2014: Hong Sek Chern's solo exhibition 'Sleepless in the City'

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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.

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Jiat and Kopi, Sleepless in the City, Art-2 Gallery
Celestial Mansion, Sleepless in the City, Art-2 Gallery
Sleepless in Choa Chu Kang (L) and Sleepless in Bedok (R), Sleepless in the City

Singapore Art Week 2014 kicks off: Sculpture madness and art on a bus!

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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.

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Stephan Balkenhol, ARNDT, Singapore
Jane Lee: 100 Face, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Singapore
Art Plural Gallery, Singapore
Windowshop at Loof, Singapore