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Gallery Pick's for the Month (Art Fair ART SG)

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17 January, 2025 (Fri) - 19 (Sun) (VIP: 16 January)

ART SG will be held in Singapore from 17 January, 2025 to 19 January. (VIP preview will be on January 16). Art Front Gallery will participate ART SG 2025, continuing from the last year.

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Oscar Oiwa, Eko Nugroho, Bunpei Kado

Date 17 January, 2025 (Fri) - 19 (Sun) (VIP: 16 January)
Artists Oscar Oiwa, Eko Nugroho, and Bunpei Kado
Booth BC15
Venue Marina Bay Sands Expo Centre
Website https://artsg.com/

Booth Theme: Instability and Transformation of Urban Space

In the booth of Art Front Gallery, we are pleased to present Oscar Oiwa who expresses the worldview filled with storytelling and social satire, Eko Nugroho , one of the most influential artist in Indonesia, and Bunpei Kado who creates the works with new meanings by assembling familiar things.

Each artist brings a unique lens to the issues of urbanization, ecological imbalance, and social tensions.

ART SG will be held in Singapore, a country closely related to environmental issues as a result of modernization and the fusion of multiple cultures. The works of these three artists will create a compelling dialogue that resonates with ART SG's diverse audience.


Oscar Oiwa

ART SG works on exhibit: "Boat and waves 3" 2023 / Oil painting on canvas, Gold / 610 × 760 mm

Born in San Paulo, and moving to Tokyo and New York, Oiwa depicts social issues with his unique humor and imagination. His interest in social matters is visualized through elaborative research and drawing process. His art style has many fans, and his works are collected in many museum inside and outside of Japan.

Oiwa said social events happened around him provide inspirations for his works. After graduated from Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at Sao Paulo University in 1989, he exhibited gradually in artistic events to become an artist while working in an architectural studio in Japan. From that time to present he lives in New York, he has experienced various social issues such as population increase, environmental crisis, pandemic, and conflicts. He continues to present the socio-political commentary against these issues in his unique style that combines surrealism.

One of the works exhibited this time, "Aquarium 2" (2024) reimagines polluted waters as a vibrant, chaotic ecosystem, a hauntingly beautiful critique of environmental degradation and humanity's complicity.

ART SG works on exhibit: "Aquarium 2" 2024 / Oil painting on canvas / 2270 × 2220 mm

ART SG works on exhibit: "Hells Kitchen 1" 2023 / Oil painting on canvas / 1780 × 1374 mm

The other works on exhibit "Hells Kitchen 1" (2023) is named from the restaurant district in New York where Oiwa lives, which was once a dangerous area. This series of works has a duality, as if there is a war for survival going on in the midst of a common, everyday kitchen. In this work, food preparation becomes a metaphor for political turmoil, reflecting the interconnectedness of personal spaces and global system.

Oiwa's works express the incidents in the world using social satire and unique humor. His works will be the center of this exhibition, resonating deeply in the urban context of Singapore, where environmental preservation and modernization are continually at odds.


Eko Nugroho

ART SG works on exhibit: "You and Me with Perception #2" 2024 / Acrylic painting on canvas / 400 × 600mm

Born in Yogyakarta in Indonesia, Nugroho is an international artist based in Yogyakarta. He employs a wide range of media, including painting, drawing, embroidery, murals, sculpture, and video. He participated the 55th Venice Biennale, and his huge work is exhibited in the airport in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Nugroho produces artworks under the theme of social issues based upon his engagement with student movement in late 1990s. Influenced by local tradition and urban environment, he creates new visual language that combines political statements with elements of street art, graffiti and comics. Especially, "More Love Above the Peace" series created in 2024 expresses the message of peace to present and future. This works contain the wish for saving people from the trigger of wars such as hate, discrimination, egoistic power by putting importance to love. Employing the traditional embroidery techniques in Yogyakarta, this work is embroidered by the craftsmen who try to protect losing traditional techniques from the development of technology. Their passion for embroidery and the process of the works can also be described as love. Nugroho believes that love is everything in the world and the key to saving the world.

ART SG works on exhibit: "More Love Above the Peace #8" 2024 / Embroidered painting / 1850 × 1500mm

ART SG works on exhibit: "Becoming Universal #2" 2023 / Embroidered painting / 1540 × 710mm

"Becoming Universal" series expresses the impossibility to become universal. This work teaches that each person has own problem, goal, and hope, and life is not easy. Human can't always be open because they limit themselves by shrinking, isolating, and being closed. Therefore, human even limit their own lives. That's why becoming universal can be said to be a potentially ideal life, even though it contradicts human life.

Known for his playful yet incisive visual language, Nugroho examines the intersection of activism,, identity, and community within urban frameworks. His woks inclusivity and emphasis on dialogue make it particularly for ART SG, where cross-cultural exchange and contemporary issues take center stage.


Bunpei Kado

ART SG works on exhibit: "Floating Islands #07" 2024 / Plywood, paint on MDF/ 900 × 900 × 90mm

Kado's works highlight the instability and paradoxes of the contemporary urban environment through his innovative use of stereotyped objects that are transformed into powerful symbols of urban life. If they were not stereotypical, they could not function as 'signs', but would signify something more. Another peculiarity is his generation of new meaning by combining objects into forms like jigsaws, and creating a divergence between the original function and the new meaning. Kado creates the works that are actually impossible by combining familiar objects. That's why Kado's works are interesting.

The main works in ART SG will be "Floating Island" series inspired by climbing-hold, which injects a satirical take on urbanization's commodification of nature. By integrating elements like miniature trees, houses, and landforms into modular installations, Kado critiques the compartmentalization of natural environments into consumable and decorative fragments. He has used houses, trees, and nature as motifs and created the works that depict human habitations and environments, such as houses barely standing on walls. Retaining this style, "Floating Island" series also depicts houses attached to climbing-hold like swallows building their nests on small protrusions.

ART SG works on exhibit: "Floating Island #03" 2024 / Plywood, paint on MDF/ 430 × 430 × 90mm

Kado's works invite audience to think the ways we interact with and reshape nature in densely populated spaces. The playful aesthetic of his sculptures is particularly engaging, drawing audiences into deeper discussions about sustainability and the artificial landscapes of modern cities.



Centered the theme of "Instability and Transformation of Urban Space", Art Front Gallery will exhibit the works of three artists. From ecological degradation to political unrest and societal fragmentation, the booth showcases how art can unpack these complex dynamics with humor, poignancy, and innovation. For the ART SG audience, our presentation offers not just a visual experience but also a space to reflect on the shared challenges and aspirations of urban living.

■ART SG
17 January, 2025 (Fri) - 19 January (Sun)
*VIP preview: 16 January
Marina Bay Sands Expo Centre, Singapore
https://artsg.com/

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