Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Panorama: Recent Art from Contemporary Asia

20 April 2012 to 25 December 2012 
Singapore Art Museum
Entang Wiharso, "Temple Of Hope: Forest Of Eyes," 2010–2011

Contemporary art is often a dialogue with the social, economic and cultural issues of the present. The explosion of art produced in Asia since 2000 can thus be a window allowing us a view or vista into the epochal changes happening around us. Cultures melt into each other, while urbanisation has transformed once familiar landscapes beyond recognition. At the same time, local communities and localities have responded to these homogenising forces with re-assertions of local identity and distinctiveness. Debates and discussions are taking place in various localities across the globe, and at ‘fibre-optic’ speeds through the Internet which no longer allow us the possibility of living in isolated silos.
LINK Panorama



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