| Singapore Art Museum at the Venice Biennale |
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Biennale 2001: The 49th International Exhibition of Contemporary Art Schola Sant Apollonia on San Marco Venice, Italy Jun 11, 2001 To Nov 04, 2001 |
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| The prestigious Venice
Biennale is a biennial modern art exposition that features painters,
sculptors and performance artists from around the world. Since the
festival's inception in 1895, the Biennale is one of the oldest and most
important international art festivals of contemporary visual arts in the
world. The 2001 Biennale will mark Singapore's first inclusion in the global affair that will showcase the art and cultural expressions of four leading Singaporean talent to over 200,000 international visitors. The four artists are Matthew Ngui - a contemporary installation artist, whose work often combines site-specific installation and performance to address the notions of communication and the generation of shifting meanings; Chen KeZhan - a contemporary artist who fuses Western abstract art forms with traditional medium of Chinese ink and rice-paper; Salleh Japar - a contemporary installation and performance artist whose art-making is often reflective of nature and the cosmology; and Suzann Victor - an installation artist who evokes the female body through formal and material association to explore gender stereotypes. Singapore,s contemporary art is presented through a myriad of forms comprising installation, painting and video, addressing issues of identities, examining relationships of self and the physical and social environment, and responding to the urban condition and city-life. The exhibition, titled SINGAPORE, attempts to articulate cultural vibrancy in contemporary Singapore. Singapore's pavillion will be in the Schola Sant Apollonia, a former school and chapel, with a floor area of about 1,000 square metres and centrally located behind St. Mark,s Basilica, near high-traffic St. Mark,s Square. Other Asia-Pacific countries participating include Australia, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. With nearly 200 artists from 59 countries participating in the 1999, the Biennale also attracts to this romantic and cultural city a range of artists, collectors, dealers and critics from all over the world. Singapore's representation has been spearheaded by Singapore Art Museum. The curators are Mr Ahmad Mashadi and Ms Joanna Lee. |
