About Art Agenda, S.E.A.In celebration of Singapore Art Week, Arts House Limited partners Art Agenda S.E.A. to present an exclusive exhibition of significant artworks from private collections in Singapore.
SINGAPORE, 5 January 2022 – Arts House Limited, in partnership with Art Agenda, will present an exclusive exhibition titled Everything Light Touches: Panorama Paintings from Private Collections. Featuring over 10 exceptional artworks loaned from private collections in Singapore, exhibited collectively for the first time in Singapore, the major exhibition will run from 20 January – 6 February 2022. and will be part of the 10th edition of Singapore Art Week. This exhibition will add excitement to the returning Light to Night Festival at the Civic District.
Spread across three historical rooms on the second floor of The Arts House, Everything Light Touches: Panorama Paintings from Private Collections reveals how artists have utilized the expansive breadth of creative possibilities offered by the panoramic format. In the large modern paintings curated for the exhibition, the featured artists have captured the most consequential of subject matters — historic scenes and landscapes conveyed with great passion and sentiments — suggesting how panorama paintings have had an outsized importance in the history of art.
Highlights of the exhibition include Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita’s paradisiac Visionary Landscape (1917), which marked modern Asian art’s rise during the fountainhead of early 20th century Europe; and Affandi’s At The Beach (1982), a monumental abstraction of the crashing waves at Parangtritis beach in Indonesia.
“We are excited that this visually stunning exhibition will be staged at The Arts House. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the public to view rarely-seen, museum-quality artworks from private collections, that traces a capsule history of modern Asian art. In addition, as the Cultural Place Manager for the Civic District, we hope that this exhibition will promote the Civic District as a vibrant destination for great art and generate conversations among the art community and audiences,” said Mr. Tan Boon Hui, Executive Director, Arts House Limited.
“It is our privilege to partner with Arts House Limited to create an occasion to draw these significant works of art from various private collections in Singapore. The thematic focus on panorama paintings gives us the opportunity to bring together works and appraise works from familiar figures in Asian art history through fresh lens. Situated in Singapore’s Civic District and bearing almost 200 years of history, The Arts House is an ideal venue to frame these pictorial narratives in a historical context, serving as a meeting point for different cultures to intersect,” said Mr. Jefferson Jong, Director, Art Agenda
Everything Light Touches: Panorama Paintings from Private Collections
Date: 20 January – 6 February 2022
Time: 10am – 10pm
Venue: The Arts House
Admission is free.
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About The Arts House
Occupying the almost 200-year-old building that was home to Singapore’s first parliament, The Arts House continues in the distinguished tradition of this gazetted national monument and now plays a key role in the country's arts and creative scene. The Arts House at the Old Parliament, as it is affectionately referred to, promotes and presents multidisciplinary programmes and festivals within its elegant spaces. It focuses in particular on the literary arts, celebrating the works of written and spoken word artists from Singapore and beyond.
The Arts House is run and managed by Arts House Limited. For more information, visit www.theartshouse.sg
About Arts House Limited
Arts House Limited (AHL) is a not-for-profit organisation committed to enriching lives through the arts. AHL is the cultural place manager of Singapore’s Civic District. It manages two key national monuments - The Arts House, a multidisciplinary arts centre with a focus on literary programming, and the Victoria Theatre & Victoria Concert Hall, a heritage building that is home to the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. It also runs performing arts space Drama Centre as well as the Goodman Arts Centre and Aliwal Arts Centre, two creative enclaves for artists, arts groups and creative businesses.
AHL organises the Singapore International Festival of Arts – an annual pinnacle performing arts festival; as well as the Singapore Writers Festival – a multi-lingual festival presenting the world’s top literary talents. In addition, AHL manages Our Cultural Medallion Story – the showcase on Singapore’s Cultural Medallion recipients at The Arts House.
AHL was set up in 11 December 2002 as a public company limited by guarantee under the National Arts Council and was officially renamed Arts House Limited on 19 March 2014. For more information, visit https://artshouselimited.sg/
About Art Agenda, S.E.A.
Established in 2016 in Singapore as an art advisory with a curatorial arm, Art Agenda specialises in post-war and modern Southeast Asian art from the 20th century and works selectively with contemporary artists, often to reflect upon aspects of global and Southeast Asian art history.
Its art advisory provides a full suite of services, including appraisal and valuation that serve the needs of both private art collectors and corporate clients. In 2020, it opened its second gallery in Thamrin, Jakarta and has a programme centred on showcasing emerging contemporary artists and blue-chip modern Indonesian art.
In Singapore, Art Agenda presently runs a curatorial concept space centred on photography and art in the Singapore context at 63 Spottiswoode Park Road. In March 2022, it will move into a purpose-built art salon that promises to deliver a unique experience of art at Tanjong Pagar Distripark.
ANNEX A
Selected Artworks
Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita
Visionary Landscape (1917)
103 cm x 208.2 cm
Affandi
By the Beach (1982)
121 cm x 240 cm