Get your artistic side on fire with Gagosian and its artistic showcase 

Gagosian has announced the gallery’s participation in the second edition of ART SG. Opening in Singapore on January 19, the exhibit will showcase works by international contemporary artists of substantial stature.

The Main Attraction

In From Zhaoye Bai to Jiufang Gao (2009), Hao Liang interprets “Jiufang Gao’s Skills in Horse Judging,” a famous story about the importance of seeing through superficial appearances, in a silkscreen print on plexiglass layered over an ink painting on silk.

Moreover, the work pictures a figure holding a replica of a historical portrait of Zhaoye Bai, Tang dynasty Emperor Xuanzong’s steed. In 99 99 99 (2023), Lauren Halsey refers to her own cultural heritage by combining the iconography of ancient Egypt with allusions to her contemporary South Central Los Angeles community.

More Art

Tetsuya Ishida’s painting General Manager’s Chair in an Abandoned Building (1996) presents the surreal image of a besuited “salaryman” partially transformed into a piece of office furniture. It is a disturbing fusion of body and object that allegorises the pressures on Japanese citizens during a period of rapid cultural and technological change.

On top of that, Keith Haring’s iconic post-Pop blend of linear pattern and stylised representation is evident in Untitled (1984), a bold acrylic painting on cotton tarp that pictures a group of figures intertwined in a dynamic, dance-like composition.

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From Art To Film

Gagosian is also participating in ART SG FILM: Embodied Presences, with Nam June Paik and Jud Yalkut’s video Waiting for Commercials, 1966–72 (1992). This uproarious compilation of Japanese TV ads is an early example of Paik’s use of appropriated broadcast imagery.

Curated by Sam I-shan and co presented with the ArtScience Museum, Embodied Presences gathers films and videos addressing the body’s expressive potential. Organised into four hour-long daily screenings, Movement in Space, Voice and Being, The Worldly and Otherworldly, and Future Shock: The End of Eternity, it plays at ArtScience Museum’s cinema.

Visit the Official Gagosian Website to find out more.