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Special Exhibitions
LIU KUO-SUNG: EXPERIMENTATION AS METHOD
Opening on 13 Jan | City Hall Wing, Level 4 Gallery and Wu Guanzhong Gallery
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Liu Kuo-sung. Detail of Coming. 2014. Ink and colour on paper, 84.5 × 398 cm. Gift of The Liu Kuo-Sung Foundation.
Liu Kuo-sung: Experimentation as Method is the largest exhibition by a Singapore public museum dedicated to the Chinese ink master, Liu Kuo-sung, which celebrates his artistic career spanning 70 years.
This retrospective show traces Liu’s creative evolution through more than 60 paintings and 150 items from the artist's personal archive, highlighting his significant innovations and contributions to the development of modern Chinese ink painting. His experiments in art go beyond the brush; Liu explores different materials and textures, and even invented the “Liu Kuo-sung paper.” He continuously reconstructs tradition with the modern, enabling the creation of a new approach to the time-honoured practice of Chinese ink painting.
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Liu Kuo-sung The Composition of Distance no.15 1971 Ink and colour on paper, 111.5 × 57.5 cm Gift of The Liu Kuo-sung Foundation
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LIVING PICTURES: PHOTOGRAPHY IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
Ongoing | City Hall Wing, Level 3, Singtel Special Exhibition Gallery
Dinh Q Lê. Crossing the Farther Shore. 2014. Found photographs, cotton thread, linen tape, steel rods, dimensions variable. Installation view, Living Pictures: Photography in Southeast Asia, 2022. Image credit: Joseph Nair, Memphis West Pictures.
Photographs surround us every day and everywhere. They shape the way we see the world and the way we see ourselves. Explore the changing roles of photography in Southeast Asia—from its beginnings as a tool of European exploration to the “performance” of studio portraits; from the incomplete realities of war to the rise of fine art; and finally to the memes and selfies that saturate social media today. Discover the power of photography.
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Installation view, Living Pictures: Photography in Southeast Asia, 2022. Image credit: Joseph Nair, Memphis West Pictures.
SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS
Closing 5 Feb | City Hall Wing, Level B1, The Ngee Ann Kongsi Concourse Gallery and The Spine Hall | Free
Installation view, Nothing is Forever: Rethinking Sculpture in Singapore, 2022.
What defines sculpture? Step into a world of three-dimensional art in Nothing is Forever: Rethinking Sculpture in Singapore.
The first exploration of Singaporean sculpture in three decades, the exhibition traces its history since the 19th century, presenting over 70 sculptural works spanning religious, participative, installative and even performative forms.
The exhibition reveals the ever-changing nature of sculpture and how ideas around making and thinking about this medium have shifted. Nothing is Forever entrenches sculpture as an essential practice as it highlights how sculpture drove new ways of thinking about art in Singapore and the lasting impacts it has made on our artistic landscape.
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Closing 15 Jan | Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Gallery | Free
Antony Gormley. Horizon Field Singapore. 2021. 47 rings of 23 mm square section aluminium tube and stainless steel spigots. Ring diameter varying from 2 to 5.5m. Image credit: Joseph Nair/ Memphis West Pictures. © the artist
Antony Gormley (b. 1950, United Kingdom) is internationally renowned for his sculptures, installations and public artworks that investigate the relationship between the human body and space. The fifth Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Commission, Horizon Field Singapore, invites visitors into an immersive experience exploring space and form.
A virtual Curator Tour led by Russell Storer and Qinyi Lim introduces Gormley’s evolving practice and invites visitors to consider the relationship between our bodies, nature and the cosmos. The video is available on our website: nationalgallery.sg/exhibition/antony-gormley.
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The Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Gallery is made possible with the support of Far East Organization.
ANTONY GORMLEY SCULPTURES
Closing 12 Feb | Various locations | Free
Three of Gormley’s earlier sculptures—Close V, Sense and Ferment—will also be on display in the Gallery’s public spaces, activating and engaging with the architecture of the buildings.
Antony Gormley Close V 1998 Cast iron, 27 × 201 × 174 cm Image credit: Joseph Nair/ Memphis West Pictures © the artist
Antony Gormley Ferment 2007 2 mm square section stainless steel bar, 273 × 177 × 211 cm Image credit: Joseph Nair/ Memphis West Pictures © the artist Antony Gormley Sense 1991 Concrete, 74.5 × 62.5 × 60 cm Image credit: Joseph Nair/ Memphis West Pictures © the artist
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