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IMPORTANT SECOND-GENERATION
ARTISTS SERIES
5 exhibitions (April -- October 2006)
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DLR Gallery with the support of the National Arts Council is proud to host a series of 5 exhibitions of works by 28 Second-Generation Artists. Titled “Important Second-Generation Artists Series”,
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this series recognises artists who have been instrumental in shaping the development of Art in Singapore and who have consistently demonstrated capabilities comparable with established artists in other parts of the world. “Second-generation” refers to artists who were active in the art scenes of the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s and are still active today.
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Our aims for hosting the series are :-
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- To bring attention to artists of distinction.
- To encourage excellence in art.
- To encourage support and patronage for art and artists.
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Most of the artists featured in these exhibitions received their early training at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. Inspired and encouraged by our pioneer artists like Georgette Chen, Cheong Soo Pieng and Chen Wen Hsi who were excellent artists and passionate educators, many of them went abroad to further their studies.
Another group of artists, like Ng Eng Teng and Teo Eng Seng were inspired by young British artists. Eddie Price, Rodney Warbrick, Roy Slade and Jim Russell who today are internationally known artists, came to Singapore to complete their national service in the 1950s. During their off duty days, they taught Art at the British Council and St Andrew’s School. Both Eng Seng and Eng Teng attended their classes and subsequently made their way to England where they enrolled in Art Colleges.
The artists who went abroad returned to Singapore in the 1960s and 1970s. Filled with new ideas and fired with enthusiasm, they together with the artists who graduated from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts regularly held exhibitions both in Singapore and in the ASEAN countries. Alpha Gallery which began as an artists’ cooperative in Alexandra Road was opened in 1974. It was every artist’s dream to have his works exhibited there.
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The 1970s can be considered the most vibrant decade for visual art in Singapore. From 1971, the Visual Art Committee of United World College of Southeast Asia, under the leadership of our Art Advisor, Teo Eng Seng, organised international arts festivals. Artworks by famous international artists were exhibited side by side with our local artists. In 1972, the first ASEAN Art Exhibition was held. It evolved into the ASEAN Travelling Exhibition of Paintings, Photography and Children’s Art. The exhibitions were organised on a rotational basis under the auspices of the ASEAN Committee for Culture and Information. In 1976, the National Museum Art Gallery was inaugurated.
It is important that we recognise the contributions made by these Second-Generation artists. Now in their sixties and seventies, they are our country’s worthy artists and deserve our support. And how we support them will make a big difference.
Featured in the first exhibition are works by Lee Boon Wang, Koeh Sia Yong, Loy Chye Chuan, Wan Soon Kam and Ang Ah Tee.Their works are representational.
Ang Ah Tee who recently held a solo exhibition at NAFA will showcase his acrylic paintings in vibrant colours. Wan Soon Kam introduces his frame within a frame poetic compositions. Loy Chye Chuan continues to make social statements with his watercolour paintings. Koeh Sia Yong’s oil paintings show his keen observation of street scenes and buildings while Lee Boon Wang’s seascapes remind us to celebrate life.
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Come and enjoy the first of the series of exciting exhibitions which opens on
Saturday, 29 April 2006 and
ends on Sunday, 14 May 2006.
The second exhibition of works
by Tay Chee Toh, Chieu Shuey Fook, Leo Hee Tong, Wee Beng Chong, Jaafar Latiff and Anthony Poon will open
on 17 June 2006.
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