pulp stories II.

my art teacher had asked us to go for an art exhibition by 11 June.

"Pulp Stories II."
At the Singapore Tyler Print Institute (STPI), a bit off clarke quay mrt station.
It was showcasing artwork by James Rosenquist and Frank Stella.

went on thursday, two days before it closed today, because i only remembered we had to go see it after the hols. :P

i don't usually go for art exhibitions...i think this may have been my first one.
haha luckily i found it, it was so hard to find, the entrance was at the corner of a steak restaurant, and the gallery was upstairs so you couldn't tell it was there unless you saw the corner entrance.

i never knew Singapore had this kind of... how say, ulu, little cosy places where you can do little low-profile stuff. the art gallery wasn't very huge, but it was good enough. it was really cool lah, there was barely anyone there, maybe me and 1 or 2 others. haha yeah, pretty ulu art gallery.

but i liked the art pieces.
i think Rosenquist had interesting ways of expressing his themes,
while Stella, mm, I just find his pieces more visually pleasing.
they both like to make use of their space, with rosenquist normally creating quite a open, huge space in his art, while stella crowding his space with many elements.

i think, in the gallery, i liked Stella's swoonarie series the best.
how it just developed from the 1st to the final 5th piece, wow the 5th piece was amazing. at first if you look at it directly it's a bit putting-off, but if you go from piece to piece it's really...awesome. well that's what i think.

anyway, the exhibition exposed me to "prints", something i hadn't even heard of, where they use high technology equipment to make layered, complex artwork. pretty interesting.

also, it helped me revise my definition of art, which was that art is a media used to express the artist's message. now, i see that art can be something as just an experimentation of visual form as well. because as humans, we live on visual information, and art is using that factor of ours, and experimenting, playing around, with it.

maybe i'll visit STPI again sometime.

it's next gallery is about "Eating Excess", so if you're interested you can just go check it out, details at www.stpi.com.sg. (:



till next time, goodbye.




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