Monday 31 July 2017

Void - Loi Cai Xiang

This exhibition is held from 27th July to 20th August 2017 over at Chan+Hori Contemporary at Gillman Barracks.

Have seen Loi Cai Xiang's work for a while. Was ok. But this series he did good. His painterly skills have improved. His subject matter though personal to him is still interesting enough. And he didn't go too 'over the top' by painting the animals and other stuff in his work. But the Giraffe piece did seem a bit odd. He is from the NAFA school and he next needs to work on the conceptual aspect of the works. And the works need to resonate with people and not just dealing with himself. But definitely a good artist.
Our favourite piece






The giraffe piece

Nice piece too

Another nice piece

Points for collectors: Strong Buy. He is passionate and paints a lot and it is reflected in his improvement. As with all young artists, we need to sit back and see where he goes from here. We at  75GOP/PATE advocate buys early in the career of the artist to support them, but there is a chance of being burnt. The other option is sit back a bit and wait a few years and decide if you really want to support the artist before going in. Both also can. 

Another note... the pieces were a bit on the expensive side for a 25 year old, but with the amount of effort and time gone into the painting I won't complain too much about it (hence the strong buy rating). The per sq cm price was more for the bigger pieces compared to the smaller pieces and thus we aren't surprised that the bigger works didn't sell.

Undertone - Yeo Tze Yang, Bess Chan and Goh Jian Hong

This exhibition was held from 7th to 22nd July 2017 over at Ipreciation at the Hard Rock Building.

The exhibition featured Yeo Tze Yang, Bess Chan and Goh Jian Hong.

Yeo Tze Yang has improved leaps and bounds and the works shown here are good. And he will receive a Strong Buy rating at the end of the post. Really like what he did this exhibition.

Bess Chan not based in Sg, not really familiar with her works. She showed some monchromatic works which were nice.

Goh Jian Hong did some paintings which weren't really impressive. Has a long way to go.

Foreground Yeo Tze Yang (L) and Bess Chan (R). Yeo Tze Yang (at the back)

Goh Jian Hong

Goh Jian Hong


Yeo Tze Yang (R), Goh Jian Hong (L)


Point for collectors: Yeo Tze Yang - Strong Buy. Bess Chan - neutral. Goh Jian Hong - pass.

Update

Hi all,

Have been lurking passively at the various exhibitions. It has been a relatively slow year for Art that we at 75GOP/PATE like.

Will just catch up on writing about the exhibitions which I think are worthy of a post.

Anyway, think the second half of the year should be better.

Thanks!