Southeast Asia’s flagship art fair, Art Stage Singapore, is back for its sixth edition. The four day event, with an intended focus placed on contemporary Southeast Asian art, is being held at Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention from 21 to 24 January 2016.
The sin-full creations of Kittisak Thapkoa at Number1Gallery.
A reflection on Qin Chong’s Evolving Ink.
For 2016, Art Stage Singapore brings the Southeast Asia Forum – an extension of the Southeast Asia Platform it introduced in 2014. The forum in its inaugural year is titled Seismograph: Sensing the City – Art in the Urban Age – and has an emphasis on urbanisation and will have both an exhibition and a talk component. The projects of 19 Southeast Asian artists, which relate to issues and sentiments in the wake of rapid urbanisation in their own countries, will be brought into focus. More information on the Southeast Asia Forum can be found here.
Takeshi Haguri’s Tengu, presented by Toki-no-wasuremono.
Entang Wiharso’s Feast Table: Undeclared Perceptions presented by ARNDT.
This year’s fair, the anchor event for Singapore Art Week, features 173 galleries from 34 countries with some 75% or 133 galleries from Asia. Art Stage Singapore 2016 will also see several public artworks being exhibited at public areas, a special exhibition of photographs and oil paintings by Hannes Schmid - best known for his iconic Marlboro Man series in the 1990s, and a return of Video Stage . The fair runs until Sunday. More information on it can be found at http://www.artstagesingapore.com/.
Yayoi Kusama’s Kei-Chan and Reach up to Heaven ‐ Dotty Pumpkin (Black) presented by Opera Gallery.
Close-up of Pink Collar by Ma Han – a public artwork.
The $170.4 million sale in 2015 of Modigliani’s “Nu Couché” to a Chinese based collector points to the rise of Asia in the International art market according to Art Stage President and founder Lorenzo Rudolf.
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