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26 Oct 2002 to 10 Nov 2002
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Utterly Art |
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Free admission |
Description
 For
the first time, the interior of the gallery will be completely
transformed. In Lotus ‘Krakatoa’, Bary presents for the first time,
his art as a ‘scenario’ – an extraterrestrial garden where the
audience might stoop to pluck the works for themselves! Bary’s
ceramic collection is heightened through the judicious juxtaposition
and isolation of his ceramics and veteran photographer Lee Jen’s
photo-paintings in the exhibition space. Hence, visitors enter into
a ‘land of space-realism… just fluid shapes stripped bare, revealing
within each piece, a unique world encapsulated. As a collection, it
is a journey into a vast dreamscape of a whole other world.’
To
the artist, the 19th century eruption of the Indonesian volcano
Krakatoa has been the source of his romantic inspiration. Out of the
ash, soot and charred remnants of that catastrophe, new life arose
to plant its seed in the artist’s fancy. Each stoneware creation in
this collection can be viewed as a microcosmic landscape in itself,
steeped in dark, metallic glaze. A lotus leaf plate may be
reminiscent of a volcanic caldera; each lava bloom may reveal craggy
outcrops, each lava bud, secret caverns and recesses. The imagery of
lotus and volcanic terrain, while derived from traditional or
ancient origins, is utilised as futuristic backdrop for some
interstellar space opera. Though initially drawn to the eastern
lotus mystic, for Bary there is neither reconciliation here between
East and West, nor of old and new, but ‘a revitalization of nature
nurtured, morphed into the calm of pure form’.
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entire collection seduces, rather than shocks, and is not so much an
exhibit as it is as a scenario - an oasis of calm in our cluttered
urban existence, inviting emulation in our personal environs. Bary
believes that art of today is more effective if perceived with
relevance rather than reverence and embraced into our everyday
spheres of living.
Opening hours:
Mondays
to Saturdays: 11.30 am - 8 pm
Sundays:
12 pm – 5.30 pm
Getting there
Outram
Park Station (EW16)
Main Organizer
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Utterly Art
Email address
utterlyart@pacific.net.sg
Other contact information
208 South Bridge #02-01
Singapore 085757
Tel: (65) 6226-2605
Fax: (65) 6226-2645 |
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