As it is in most cities, local galleries time their exhibits to coincide with the frenzy of art fair week. In Singapore for Art Stage, I had time enough to catch three.
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The Maestro and the Master: Roberto Chabet and Bencab in Singapore
Pinoy art lovers couldn’t but strut on the streets of Singapore —after they stopped to catch their breath from all that scurrying from one affair to the next. Almost all the fringe events organized around Art Stage Singapore last week involved Filipino visual artists. “That says a lot”, art writer Gina Fairley remarked as we discussed the very palpable Philippine presence in an important week for Southeast Asian art. Mok Kim Chuan, Head of Southeast Asian Paintings at Sotheby’s observed, “For the first time, Filipinos, not the Indonesians, got all the attention.”
While two days didn’t give me enough time for everything (I completely missed Manuel Ocampo at vwfa), I’d like to think that I caught the two most important exhibit openings of the week: To be continued: Roberto Chabet at ICAS La Salle, and Bencab’s Glimpses at the Singapore Tyler Print Institute. Continue reading