The first edition of Art Stage Singapore will take place at Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre of Singapore from Jan. 12th–16th, 2011. The team behind the fair is led by Lorenzo Rudolf, the founder of Art Basel Miami and one of the co-founders of ShContemporary, dedicated to introduce art galleries of the Asia-Pacific to the world. TKG+ will participate in this great event, showing the newest works from artists: Wu Tien-Chang, Tu Wei-Cheng, Peng Wei, Su Meng-Hung, and Chen Ching-Yuan, while also presenting works from the emerging artist Wu Chi-Tsung on Project Stage.
Artist Wu Tien-Chang will present the video installation “Luan”which includes an actor wearing a “suffocating” mask of a beautiful, youthful boy and “restrictingly” shiny latex tights, while completing an “in-place” limbic performance. Recorded with a high-speed camera, “slowed down and played back” at a normal frame rate, the video reveals a gloomy, primitive human eros. Tu Wei-Cheng’s new works utilize the method of visual field-work and collects city images and cultural traces, providing the city with a cultural massage. Peng Wei incorporates classical aesthetics of Chinese literati painting and modern lifestyle to her works, and furthermore applies paper to multi-dimensional spaces, evolving from ink painting and returning to it. Su Meng-Hung, on the other hand, finds inspiration from traditional bird and flower paintings from the artists of mid- and late-Qing Dynasty, replacing them with bright color blocks or contemporary elements. Chen Ching-Yuan, who was born in the 80s, presents works conceiving a message of uncertainty and hesitation, which reflects the conflict between the artists’ inner self and reality. The art fair has also created Project Stage, which focuses on the landscape of Asian Art, while presenting unique, new Asia Pacific artists. Our participating artist Wu Chi-Tsung constructs and materializes intangible equipment such as electronic devices, programs, networks, media, and information that we use in daily life. Wu presents his ideas as the process of crystals, which each element grows according to a certain inner logic and pattern, increasing and spreading indefinitely, and finally becoming a city on its own.