STPI gallery is excited to present works from Ashley Bickerton, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Jane Lee, Tobias Rehberger, Anri Sala, Do Ho Suh, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Suzann Victor, created in collaboration with the STPI Creative Workshop team of professional printers and RSVP papermakers in Singapore.
Highlights include Ashley Bickerton's technically challenging paper cast works which portray rugged fantastical landscapes of caverns and craters with impressive depth; Trenton Doyle Hancock's audacious epics which were triggered by the colourful multifarious folklore in Singapore; Tobias Rehberger's graphic screenprints that explore the intriguing dichotomies of the English language; Do Ho Suh's haunting cyanotype works, an artistic breakthrough which continues his explorations of expressing 3D objects in 2D form; and Suzann Victor's new series of architectural, ephemeral wall installations which reverses the role of paper from a mere receiving surface to the medium with which she paints.
STPI has been participating in Art Basel Miami Beach since 2013 and is the only gallery from Singapore to take part in all three of the Art Basel shows. It was the only Southeast Asian gallery chosen to participate in the prestigious FIAC fair in Paris this year.
Ashley Bickerton is a contemporary artist presently living in Bali. A mixed-media artist, Bickerton often combines photographic and painterly elements with industrial and found object assemblages. Bickerton has exhibited his work internationally, including Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Geneva (forthcoming, 2018); Newport Street Art Gallery, London (2017); FLAG Art Foundation, New York (2017); and Palacete del Embarcadero, Autoridad Portuaria de Santander, Spain (1997). His work is in numerous international public and private collections, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Vancouver Art Gallery; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; and the Tate Britain, London.
Trenton Doyle Hancock develops storytelling in his work with influences from the history of painting as well as pop-culture, building narratives around his characters of good and evil. He was featured in the 2000 and 2002 Whitney Biennial exhibitions, at the time, becoming one of the youngest artists in history to participate in this prestigious survey. Solo exhibitions include The Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami; Institute for Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Olympic Sculpture Park at the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle; The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam.
Collections include the Dallas Museum of Art, Texas; the Menil Collection, Houston, Texas; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California; Akron Art Museum, Ohio; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; and il Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea, Trento.
Jane Lee has received several awards, including the 2011 Celeste Prize in New York (Painting) and the 2007 Singapore International Residency Art Prize, of which she was the very first recipient. She is known for her visually stunning and tactile installation works that challenge the notion of a painting, and her rigorous and innovative techniques. She has exhibited at venues like the Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Singapore; the ArtScience Museum, Singapore; the Museo di Palazzo Grimani, Venice; the Hong Kong Arts Centre; Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius; as well as at the Singapore Biennale 2008, Collectors Stage at the Singapore Art Museum. Her work Status (2009) is part of the permanent collection in the Singapore Art Museum.
Golden Lion award winner Tobias Rehberger challenges the fine line between art, architecture and design and is considered one of the most important contemporary German artists today. Drawing his subjects from quotidian objects, Rehberger creates situations and environments that disrupt our initial perception of objects and their functions, reconstructing our perspective, outlook and relationship with the subjects. He also challenges the fine line between art, architecture and design, working with geometry, colours and abstract forms, developing a distinctive style with works that reflect an interest in man's relationship to mass culture. Major exhibitions include the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (2014); Artelier Contemporary, Graz (2012); Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle (2011); Tobias Rehberger, MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo (2010); Kunsthalle Mannheim (2009); Kunstraum Innsbruck (2008); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2008); Fondazione Prada, Milan (2007); Tate Liverpool (2006); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (2005); Whitechapel Gallery, London (2004); and Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2003), as well as The Gwangju Biennale, Venice Biennale, Manifesta, Berlin Biennale and the Yokohama Triennale.
Anri Sala rose to international acclaim for accomplished videos and films, informed by his personal experience to reflect on the social and political changes taking place in native Albania. His remarkable works composed of documentary, narrative and autobiographical approaches highlight cultural transitions, history and collective memory—enhancing these recurrent themes through the use of sound and image. Sala has exhibited widely at institutions including Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; P.S.1 Center for Contemporary Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; the Art Institute of Chicago and Tel Aviv Museum of Art; and has participated in the Venice Biennale, Bienal de São Paulo and Manifesta, among others. Numerous awards include Best Documentary Film awards at the Williamsburg Brooklyn Film Festival (2000) and the Prix Gilles Dusein (2000). He has also won The Vincent Prize (2014) and the 10th Benesse Prize. Sala had a major exhibition in New Museum in February 2016, which marked the most comprehensive survey of his work in the US.
Do Ho Suh's awards and honours include WSJ. Magazine's Innovator of the Year in Art, the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painting and Sculpture award, the Skowhegan Fellowship, the Korean Arts Foundation of America Award, and a Chanil Foundation Fellowship. He is known for his stunning one-to-one scale, architectural fabric installation works that reflect the transnational dilemma of home and belonging, malleable space and memory, and the boundaries of identity. Suh has exhibited extensively, including the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul; 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima; Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul; Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York; Seattle Art Museum; Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa. He has also participated in various biennales, including the 2001 Venice Biennale (where he represented South Korea); the 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale, the 2010 Liverpool Biennial, and the 2012 Gwangju Biennial.
Recognised for her conceptual prowess and ability to articulate complex ideas in technically challenging forms, Suzann Victor is one of Singapore's most pronounced artists to date. At STPI, Victor was intrigued by the textured fluidity of paper pulp. She made the qualities of paper the central highlight, painting with pigmented paper pulp on polycarbonate sheets. From her early practice as an award-winning painter in Singapore in the late 1980s, Victor's prolific journey spans across 22 years and includes a number of public commissions, a 2016 retrospective at the Singapore Art Museum and major international shows including the 6th Havana Biennale, 2nd Asia-Pacific Triennial at Queensland Art Gallery, the 5th Seoul International Media Art Biennale, 2013 Singapore Biennale and the 49th Venice Biennale where she became Singapore's first female representative.
Rirkrit Tiravanija's life is a constant negotiation of cultures and languages from which he draws inspiration for his practice. His most iconic work Untitled (Free) (1992) transforms museums and galleries worldwide into kitchens and a place of communion where he serves rice and Thai curry to visitors. A recipient of the Hugo Boss Art Prize, his works are part of notable public collections such as The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Migros Museum, Zurich; Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin; and TATE, London. He has exhibited widely at renowned institutions such as the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Kunsthalle Bielefeld; Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Chiang Mai University Art Museum; Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Philadelphia Museum of Art; and at biennales such as the São Paulo Biennal (2006); the Liverpool Biennial (2002 and 2004); the Whitney Biennial (1995 and 2005); and the Venice Biennale (1993 and 1999).
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Private Day (by invitation only)
Wednesday, December 6, 2017
Vernissage (by invitation only)
Thursday, December 7, 2017, 11am to 3pm
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Thursday, December 7, 2017, 3pm to 8pm
Friday, December 8, 2017, 12 noon to 8pm
Saturday, December 9, 2017, 12 noon to 8pm
Sunday, December 10, 2017, 12 noon to 6pm
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