► Tina Keng Gallery｜2023 ART SG
Venue｜Sands Expo & Convention Centre, Marina Bay Sands Singapore
(10 Bayfront Ave, Singapore 018956)
Booth｜BE03
Participating Artists｜Su Xiaobai, Peng Wei, Su Meng-Hung, Yuan Hui-Li
Opening Hours│
▋Collectors Preview ▋
Jan. 11 (Wed.) 14:00 - 21:00
Jan. 12 (Thur.) 11:00 - 12:00
▋Public Days ▋
Jan. 12 (Thur.) 12:00 - 19:00
Jan. 13 (Fri.) 12:00 - 19:00
Jan. 14 (Sat.) 11:00 - 19:00
Jan. 15 (Sun.) 11:00 - 17:00
Tina Keng Gallery is pleased to announce its participation in the 2023 edition of Art SG with a presentation of the works of Su Xiaobai, Yuan Hui-Li, Peng Wei, and Su Meng-Hung. Harnessing a diverse range of mediums, the four artists rebel against Asian traditional mediums and aesthetic signifiers in their respective approaches to Chinese ancient legacy and gender awareness in shanshui painting. Together their works coalesce into a dialogue between Asian mediums/symbols and female consciousness in ink painting.
Su Xiaobai (b. 1949) creates lacquer works that attest to Asian history and aesthetics, transmuted through contemporary visual language into painterly abstraction. He allows for interaction between painting and light and shadow, while articulating a cross-cultural experience through traditional craftsmanship and contemporary art making.
Yuan Hui-Li (b. 1963) is concerned about the subsidiary position of female artists in the male-dominated discourse of ink art, as well as the lack of female consciousness in the trajectory of ink art. Through a feminine lens Yuan redefines the cun, or texturizing, technique, pivoting on femininity while reshaping an age-old genre through an evolution of form and meaning.
Formal training in Chinese tradition and literati painting underpins the practice of Peng Wei (b. 1974). The attention to female protagonists in her work manifests a keen interest in gender and the culture in which she grew up. Her careful scrutiny of womanhood sees women dominate the narrative they inhabit, intimating a new form of feminine aesthetics.
Su Meng-Hung (b. 1976) reimagines Asian craftsmanship through such techniques as mother-of-pearl inlay, lacquerware, and cloisonné. Materiality and texture become his primary focus as he layers, sands, and polishes the canvas, revealing the flora and fauna that lies beneath, and the ancient imperial and literati taste it embodies.
