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LIU KUO-SUNG: EXPERIMENTATION AS METHOD CATALOGUE
$75.00 SGD
"Seek first to be unique, and then to be excellent." Artist Liu Kuo-sung imparted this maxim to his students in a bid to cultivate an ethos of experimentation, which he...
CHEONG SOO PIENG: LAYER BY LAYER
$45.00 SGD
Cheong Soo Pieng: Layer by Layer presents a unique insight into the artist’s innovative use of materials in painting through examples from the 1950s to 1980s. This exhibition catalogue features reproduced...
WORDS ON ART: AYATANA
$24.00 SGD
Edwin Thumboo, one of Singapore's pioneering literary voices, brings his incisive awareness of socio-cultural history to this volume of poetry. With a humanist's eye, _arrative spanning the domestic, the politic...
THE GIFT: COLLECTING ENTANGLEMENTS AND EMBODIED HISTORIES
$37.50 SGD
The Gift captures the Singapore segment of the curatorial project Collecting Entanglements and Embodied Histories. Focusing on ideas of inter-relation and exchange manifest in history, geography and identity, this catalogue...
SIAPA NAMA KAMU? ART IN SINGAPORE SINCE THE 19TH CENTURY: SELECTIONS FROM THE EXHIBITION
$14.00 SGD
Siapa Nama Kamu? weaves together a rich and captivating narrative of artworks in a broadly chronological sequence, covering Singapore's art history from the 19th century to the present. This handy...
SIAPA NAMA KAMU? ART IN SINGAPORE SINCE THE 19TH CENTURY
$75.00 SGD
Published to accompany National Gallery Singapore's inaugural exhibition Siapa Nama Kamu?, this catalogue presents a survey of Singapore artfrom the 19th century to the present, charting major themes across broad...
REFRAMING MODERNISM: PAINTING FROM SOUTHEAST ASIA, EUROPE AND BEYOND
$96.30 SGD
What is modernism in Southeast Asia? What is modern art, as embodied in the paintings of Southeast Asia? These questions and more are answered in Reframing Modernism: Painting from Southeast...
REDISCOVERING TREASURES: INK ART FROM THE XIU HAI LOU COLLECTION
$55.00 SGD
The Xiu Hai Lou Collection is one of the most extensive private collections of ink art in Singapore. This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition Rediscovering Treasures: Ink...
LONELY VECTORS
$28.00 SGD
Lonely Vectors takes its cue from Singapore Art Museum’s new space at the Tanjong Pagar Distripark as a site of the global economy and its choreography of movements. However, its interests...
I AM AN ARTIST (HE SAID)
$39.00 SGD
“To be an artist is … just like shit in a clogged toilet, stubborn shit that can’t decide whether it wants to be flushed or to stick around” writes acclaimed...
ENG TOW-THE SIXTH SENSE
$28.00 SGD
Eng Tow is an interdisciplinary artist whose works merge the disciplines of fine art, craft and design. This catalogue traces Tow's artistic navigation through life, highlighting key shifts in her...
CHUA MIA TEE DIRECTING THE REAL
$55.00 SGD
The painter assumes the role of a scriptwriter, director and actor to freely shape the subject's image. - Chua Mia Tee. Through character, narrative and composition, visionary artist Chua Mia...