MONOGRAPH LAUNCH
Boo Sze Yang: Forever at the Crossroads
Boo Sze Yang: Forever at the Crossroads is the first monograph on the artist, complete with biographical details and a survey of his practice from 1995 to 2014. In addition, the 120-page full-colour plates offer a glimpse of the artist’s unique vision. Two key aspects from Boo’s body of work are highlighted in the monograph: his varied painting techniques; and his diverse range of subject matter, which are reflections of his dialogues with the world.
The monograph, published by Singapore-based Sunda Press, will launch on 15 August 2015 at the iPRECIATION gallery as part of Boo’s 15th solo exhibition, 29.03.15. The artist will be present for book signing and a sharing. The book will also be distributed to all major bookstores and museums.
Monograph Launch Details
Launch of monograph, book signing and artist talk
15 August 2015, Saturday, 2:30 p.m.
iPRECIATION Gallery
50 Cuscaden Road, Singapore 249724
About the Publisher
Sunda Press, founded in 2014 by writer-editors Low Jat Leng and Wong Shu Yun, is a content consultancy and small press. It focuses on niche publications of both fiction and non-fiction from and about Asia.
Publisher and Editor
Wong Shu Yun or Low Jat Leng
[email protected]
www.sundapress.com
Gallery
June Ong at iPRECIATION
+65 6339 0678
[email protected]
www.ipreciation.com
100 Painters of Tomorrow
Kurt Beers
Publication date: 22 September 2014
An intelligent, wide-ranging and exhilarating survey of largely unknown talent, selected by a distinguished international panel
100 Painters of Tomorrow is the culmination of a major new project to find the most exciting, up-and-coming painters at work today. This major publication introduces and presents the work of a global cast of painters selected by an international panel featuring some of the most prominent names in contemporary art, and offers an intelligent snapshot of the best new talent in painting from across the world.
The 100 featured artists were gathered through an open call for submissions that drew over 4,300 applications, and come from nearly 40 countries, including Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, India, Iran, Japan, Mexico, Poland, Singapore, South Africa, Turkey, the UK and the USA. Their work spans an extraordinary range of styles and techniques, from abstraction to figuration, minimalism to magical realism, and straight oil-on-canvas to mixed-media and installation based painting. 100 Painters of Tomorrow features high-quality reproductions of each artist’s work plus short exploratory texts by author Kurt Beers – often including biographical detail and quotations from the artists themselves – that provide a personal insight into their thinking and their creative practice. Complete with resources including a global listing of further artists to watch, this is the definitive book on the outstanding painters of the future. The selection panel comprised the painter Cecily Brown, curators Tony Godfrey, Yuko Hasegawa and Gregor Muir, Director of the ICA (who has also written the Introduction), writer-critics Suzanne Hudson, Barry Schwabsky and Philip Tinari, writer/editor Jacky Klein, collector Valeria Napoleone and Kurt Beers.
Kurt Beers is director of the London gallery Beers Contemporary. He works with both emerging and established artists and has initiated various multidisciplinary projects, including the Award for Emerging Art and the annual open group exhibition Contemporary Visions.
Related exhibitions:
Beware Wet Paint (24 September – 16 November 2014), ICA, London
Beware Wet Paint (Part 2) 28 October 2014 - 28 February 2015 (Fondazione Sandretto Re
Rebaudengo,Turin. Italy)
100 Painters of Tomorrow, Beers Contemporary, 28 November 2014-17 January 2015.
100 Painters of Tomorrow website
Kurt Beers
Publication date: 22 September 2014
An intelligent, wide-ranging and exhilarating survey of largely unknown talent, selected by a distinguished international panel
100 Painters of Tomorrow is the culmination of a major new project to find the most exciting, up-and-coming painters at work today. This major publication introduces and presents the work of a global cast of painters selected by an international panel featuring some of the most prominent names in contemporary art, and offers an intelligent snapshot of the best new talent in painting from across the world.
The 100 featured artists were gathered through an open call for submissions that drew over 4,300 applications, and come from nearly 40 countries, including Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, India, Iran, Japan, Mexico, Poland, Singapore, South Africa, Turkey, the UK and the USA. Their work spans an extraordinary range of styles and techniques, from abstraction to figuration, minimalism to magical realism, and straight oil-on-canvas to mixed-media and installation based painting. 100 Painters of Tomorrow features high-quality reproductions of each artist’s work plus short exploratory texts by author Kurt Beers – often including biographical detail and quotations from the artists themselves – that provide a personal insight into their thinking and their creative practice. Complete with resources including a global listing of further artists to watch, this is the definitive book on the outstanding painters of the future. The selection panel comprised the painter Cecily Brown, curators Tony Godfrey, Yuko Hasegawa and Gregor Muir, Director of the ICA (who has also written the Introduction), writer-critics Suzanne Hudson, Barry Schwabsky and Philip Tinari, writer/editor Jacky Klein, collector Valeria Napoleone and Kurt Beers.
Kurt Beers is director of the London gallery Beers Contemporary. He works with both emerging and established artists and has initiated various multidisciplinary projects, including the Award for Emerging Art and the annual open group exhibition Contemporary Visions.
Related exhibitions:
Beware Wet Paint (24 September – 16 November 2014), ICA, London
Beware Wet Paint (Part 2) 28 October 2014 - 28 February 2015 (Fondazione Sandretto Re
Rebaudengo,Turin. Italy)
100 Painters of Tomorrow, Beers Contemporary, 28 November 2014-17 January 2015.
100 Painters of Tomorrow website
The Fashion Mall, Las Vegas. 2012. Oil on canvas, 125x200cm. Private collection, Hong Kong
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The Sovereign Asian Art Prize 2013
The Sovereign Asian Art Prize was initiated in 2003 when the Sovereign Art Foundation was established as a charity in Hong Kong. All finalists will be posted on our website giving works a wider audience. The prestigious first prize of US$30,000 cash will be announced at the start of the finalists' exhibition. The "Schoeni Prize" is named in memory of our advisor and friend Manfred Schoeni who sadly passed away in 2004. This prize is decided solely by public votes cast at the exhibition and through the Sovereign Art Foundation website. The prize carries a nominal award of US$1,000. After the exhibition the works, other than the first prize which becomes the property of the Foundation, will be auctioned off by Christie's at a charity dinner. 50% of the proceeds of each sale go to the artist and the other 50% goes to the Foundation to be applied to its charitable work. http://www.sovereignartfoundation.com/art-prizes/asia/index.php |
The Residency Program
KUANDU MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan19 Nov - 21 Dec 2012 Artist Talk: 28 Nov 2012 Exhibition Dates: 11 - 16 Dec 2012 www.kdmofa.tnua.edu.tw/en supported by: Singapore National Arts Council |
SPIKES ASIA 12
16-18 Sep 2012 Suntec Singapore www.spikes.asia http://www.spikes.asia/attend_the_festival/spikesalso.cfm SpikesAlso launched in 2011 as a photography exhibition of the best work from non-professional photographers from around the Asia Pacific region. After the success of last year, SpikesAlso returns this year the 'KnownUnknown', a live art experience celebrating the impact of design on the everyday world around us. Designed and sponsored by The Brand Union and brought to life by Lumina, this interactive installation will explore the interplay of art and design with familiar products and objects. Over the three days of the Spikes Asia Festival of Creativity, these objects and the space they occupy will be transformed by the work of local artists Boo Sze Yang, Didier 'Jaba' Mathieu, When I Was Four, and Jesvin Yeo and students from Nanyang Technological University. |