TEO ENG SENG WE’RE HAPPY. ARE YOU HAPPY? CATALOGUE

$35.00 SGD

Edited by Seng Yu Jin and Roy Ng

Teo Eng Seng: We’re Happy. Are You Happy? offers a comprehensive overview of Singapore

artist Teo Eng Seng’s bold experimentations over the last seven decades. Teo is known for

his invention of what he terms “paperdyesculp”—a malleable mixture of pulp, natural fibres and other commonplace materials, and his technique of finessing it, inspired by Chinese papermaking and calligraphic traditions, and Western abstraction. Through painting, sculpture and paperdyesculp, Teo draws aesthetic vocabularies from an extraordinary range of cultural sources only to deconstruct them, directing the self—spontaneous and raw as he deems—in irreverent jest. Pervasive in his oeuvre is a radical openness to the social world, teasing us to question the human condition with unabashed humour, irony and wit.

245 mm (H) × 210 mm (W)

160 pages | 128 colour illustrations

Publisher: National Gallery Singapore