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By Appointment Momentous Arts Singapore 1557 Keppel Road, #03-27. Singapore 089066 Tel : +65 9641 3235 Email : momentousarts@gmail.com |
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Second Nature – Nature Is The Song |
James T. Valliere’s interviews with Jackson Pollock’s contemporaries,
including Willem de Kooning and critic Clement Greenberg
have appeared in many publications and
are in the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Museum.
Valliere’s latest work is the Amazon e-book: Pollock: How Lee Krasner Built His Legacy.
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Tew Nai Tong, a name synonymous with painting idyllic landscapes of South-East-Asia and in particular Malaysia has a deep passion for the tropical landscape and its people, much like the early Nanyang Artists. Nai Tong is widely regarded as Malaysia's most established artist. An artistic career spanning five decades, he studied at the Ecole Des Beaux Arts de Paris and the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts Singapore. He was awarded the grand prize at the Asia Art Award in Seoul in 2009. His highly recognizable paintings of cows, rubbers tapers and womenfolk at work are sought after by collectors. There is a quiet romanticism in the gracious movement of figures and elements in his oeuvres, decked with luscious colours and a rich surface treatment of his canvases. As we spoke, Nai Tong is busy preparing for his solo exhibition in Shanghai and Qingdao. He quipped, "My figures are majority women. To me they are hardworking, care for the family and does not have a care what happen in the world of politics. They only want happiness and harmony. Their heads always held high because to me they are great and proud." The 76 year old veteran artist has witnessed all that as he has lived in a rubber plantation when he was young, the rubber tapers were mainly Indian women. He said, " When I went to Kelantan, Kuantan, Thailand and Bali, the markets are majority women hawkers. I like to go to villagers because people there are sincere, natural, beautiful and calm, not like city life." Please contact the gallery if you are interested in any of Tew Nai Tong's works. |
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Rene Robles In the 1950's there was abstract expressionism. In the 1960's there was pop art, and from 1970 to the present, a steadfastly growing diversity in art has developed. What all these developments have in common is that they reflect developments in their societies. Art is not static, it continually seeks a new way of visual expression. In the 1950's and 60's artists followed particular stylistic disciplines and their results were distinct. In the last three decades, however, diversity destroyed every form of discipline. Artists use recycled materials and can go back and forth in time from the ancient period to the present for their subject mode which can mutate or combine with others, resulting in a different art form. - Written by M. Teresa Rodriguez, Art Historian |
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| Pete Jimenez | Dragica Milunovic | Georg Heider | Antonius Kho |
He sees the potential of found objects (iron in this case), pick the pieces that he likes, bring them back where he hammer and weld them in his garage. Filipino sculptor Pete Jimenez would reconfigured the metals with humor and imagination, smacked with eccentricity. |
It's quite exciting when you're knocked out by the visual impact of a painting. That's just the kind of effect we've come to expect from Dragica Milunovic's work and she certainly doesn't let us down in this exhibition. Here she offers a collection of fourteen works, ranging in size from 150 cm square to 5 cm square, each composed of cross-hatched lines made by the point of a small brush dipped in tints and tones of a single colour. - From a 2007 exhibition review (partial) by Judith McGrath |
Born in 1944, in southern Germany, In 2003 after visiting an exhibition of paintings on back of glass near Murnau, he loved it so much that he started to paint in the same technique. The desire to further the technique grew more and more, that it now becomes an obsession. Inspired by his imagination, his imagery are often exaggerated or with a double meaning. “No prejudice or hurt, I prefer things with movement and bright colors that fill an image, things that create happiness, said the artist. “I paint with acrylic paints. As you can see both sides of the glass, we are not sure of how things will never work in the end. When painting on the back glass, there is some risk. But turn the glass is almost always a wonderful moment as laugh and sing at the same time and I do not want to paint in other materials.” |
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| Choi Jae IL | Lim Leong Seng | Tjasa Iris | Raul Isidro |
Korean artist Choi Jae IL creates glazed ceramic tile work as if they were paintings. His unique tile art are influenced by Op Art of the 60's. The illusionary colour influenced one's way of perception and challenge viewers visual perception of his artworks. Bands of colour and elements weave and change their appearances according to the viewer perspective.and where he stands. Their illusionistic surface and construction invites a visual investigation on the part of the viewer. |
Born in the 1950’s, Singaporean sculptor Lim Leong Seng have witnessed the rapid transformation of the city-state. With much of its traditions & customs lost, his works are a recollection of the early life in Singapore; capturing colourful local festivities like the ‘Mid-Autumn Festival’ or a Chinese Tongkang returning with bags of grain often a common sight of the Singapore river. Perhaps he is one of the few remaining gatekeepers of the rich heritage of Singapore. A multi-awarded and widely exhibited artist, Lim Leong Seong has completed many large scale public & private commissions works that grace the Republic landmarks. |
Tjasa Iris works are inspired by gardens with lush vegetation. She dedicates most of her exhibitions to these themes. The paintings describe beautiful flowers & lush tropical gardens in bright, vivid, lush colours. Her paintings are full of a unique energy. Her roots are in Expressionism, Expressionist artists sought to express meaning or emotional experience rather than physical reality.Tjasa Iris views her work as a continuation of the concerns of Expressionism. Colour is the main concern in her paintings, exploring the emotional and expressive qualities. Through her use of colour and shape she captivates the viewer with her joyful celebration of life through her art. The explosive energy of SE Asia is making her paintings even more vibrant. She is now more than ever an avid traveller, and she captures the essence of the places she visits in vibrant abstracted pictures. (Art writer Angela Rosenthal)
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Editioned Prints |
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