GENEVIEVE CHUA: TWOFOLD
This visual arts exhibition, presented by STPI - Creative Workshop & Gallery, is Singaporean painter Genevieve Chua's largest solo exhibition to date, featuring 30 of her works.
Recognised for her abstract approach, Chua has been billed as one of the most promising artists from Singapore in the last decade. She uses geometric shapes and a monochromatic palette to create complex, intricate works with patterns that evoke qualities of near-abstraction and optical art.
Twofold features playful configurations of paintings from Chua's ongoing series Edge Control, Swivels and After the Flood, as well as new print-based works from her residency with STPI in 2019.
For example, one artwork, titled Edge Control #15, Soft Diplomacy, features acrylic on linen, and was created in 2018. Another work, After The Flood #28, features a digital pigment ink print on photographic paper, hand-coloured with ink. It was created from 2011 to 2019.
The exhibition is guest-curated by Melanie Pocock, curator at Ikon Galleryin Birmingham, United Kingdom.
WHERE: STPI - Creative Workshop & Gallery, 41 Robertson Quay
MRT: Fort Canning
WHEN: Till April 19, 10am to 7pm (Mondays to Fridays), 9am to 6pm (Saturdays), 10am to 5pm (Sundays), closed on public holidays
INFO: www.stpi.com.sg/exhibitions/genevieve-chua-twofold
STRAITS: NOBUAKI TAKEKAWA & TANG DIXIN
This exhibition at Gillman Barracks features the works of Japanese artist Nobuaki Takekawa and Chinese contemporary artist Tang Dixin.
Presented by Ota Fine Arts Singapore, the show explores the two artists' unconventional ways of art-making. They engage in unique, impromptu and playful collaborations with each other, such as by exchanging drawings via phone messaging.
Takekawa and Tang developed their careers in different ways and have held exhibitions here on separate occasions. In 2018, their friendship deepened while working on a project at Sifang Art Museum in Nanjing, China.
For the current exhibition, the duo explored Singapore and created works from their observations. The results include Demolition Of Rice Pyramid, an acrylic on canvas work by Takekawa, which features ants on a pyramid-shaped pile of rice; and Forest, an oil on canvas work by Tang, which features shades of yellow, green and brown. Both works were created earlier in 2020.
WHERE: 7 Lock Road, #02-13, Gillman Barracks
MRT: Labrador Park
WHEN: Till March 7, 11am to 7pm (Tuesdays to Saturdays), 11am to 6pm (Sundays), closed on Mondays and public holidays
ADMISSION: Free
INFO: www.otafinearts.com/sg/exhibitions/2020/nobuaki_takekawa_tang_dixin_straits
EASTMAN CAMERATA
This is the first concert by Eastman Camerata, a performing arts ensemble consisting of professional Singapore-based musicians who are alumni of the prestigious Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester in New York.
The group includes violinist and Cultural Medallion recipient Vivien Goh, Singapore Symphony Orchestra associate conductor Joshua Tan Kang Ming, Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music faculty member Adeline Wong and many other members of the Singapore performing arts scene.
On Friday (Feb 28), they will perform classical works such as Felix Mendelssohn's String Symphony No.1, as well as Wong's Empunya Yang Beroleh Sita Dewi and David Diamond's Rounds For String Orchestra.
The concert is organised by the Boutique Chamber Players and helmed by its artistic director Han Oh, who is also an Eastman alumnus.
The camerata aims to present two or three concerts a year and bring together other alumni from their school in local and regional performances.
WHERE: Esplanade Recital Studio, 1 Esplanade Drive
MRT: City Hall / Esplanade
WHEN: Feb 28, 7.30pm
ADMISSION: $25 from Apactix (go to www.apactix.com or call 3158-8588)
