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SG60 and the visual arts: Cultural Medallion artists embrace colour, experimentation in STPI show
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Cultural Medallion recipient and artist Goh Beng Kwan has become more florid with age.
PHOTO: STPI – CREATIVE WORKSHOP & GALLERY
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SINGAPORE – Against pitch-black paper, the florid daubs of Singapore artist Goh Beng Kwan are practically luminescent.
He is still uncompromisingly abstract in his idiom, but it is the flux of colours that draws you in: the bright orange flickering like a flaming bush and the cooler blue only occasionally successful in dousing their heat.
