September Round-Up

LASALLE College of the Arts, Tumurun Private Museum and more
By Alana Malika

Duy Hoàng, ‘Perigree, 2021’, print on tarpaulin, ropes. Image credit to LASALLE College of the Arts.

Tropical Lab 15: Interdependencies
Created by Milenko Prvacki a Senior Fellow at LASALLE in 2005, Tropical Lab is an immersive art camp attracting undergraduates from across the globe to study in Singapore. ‘Interdependencies’ is a group exhibition curated by Anca Rujoiu inviting 25 Tropical Lab alumni in a multimedia show exploring the webbed connections that weave the reality of our material world. As shown on a map of an intercontinental flight or an animation illustrating the effects of the anthropocene, it underlines the sociological and historical strings at play in any given incident.

LASALLE College of the Arts, 21 August 2021 to 16 October 2021.

Made Wiguna Valasara, ‘Collective Fragment #1’, 2021, stuffed canvas,125 x 120 cm. Image courtesy of Art Agenda, JKT.

Collective Fragment
‘Collective Fragment’ at Art Agenda, JKT, in partnership with Bale Project, is a solo exhibition by Balinese artist Made Wiguna Valasara. Known for his adaptation of the Batuan painting style, Valasara’s works display the tension between one’s individuality and ancestral tradition in Balinese society today. He offers a critical view of the artistic, spiritual, and social traditions of Bali through his stuffed canvases, coloured threads, and kinetic elements. While the exhibition is held in Art Agenda, JKT’s gallery space, it is also accompanied by an online viewing room.

Art Agenda, JKT, 25 August to 25 September 2021.

‘Pertempuran antara Sultan Agung dan Jan Pieterszoon Coen’, 1973, oil on canvas, 300 x 1000 cm. Image courtesy of Tumurun Private Museum.

Mukti Negeriku! The Battle of Sultan Agung Through the Strokes of S. Sudjojono
In a collaboration between Tumurun Private Museum and S. Sudjojono Centre, ‘Mukti Negeriku! The Battle of Sultan Agung Through the Strokes of S. Sudjojono’ commemorates Indonesia’s 76th Independence by revisiting history through art. The exhibition revolves around Indonesian modern painter S. Sudjojono’s largest commission ‘Pertempuran antara Sultan Agung dan Jan Pieterszoon Coen’ (1973) for the inaugural opening of Museum Sejarah Indonesia in 1974. For the first time, the show unveils 38 sketches containing footnotes from his comprehensive study of the Battle of Sultan Agung in the Netherlands.

Tumurun Private Museum and S. Sudjojono Centre, 28 August 2021 to 28 February 2022.

Kim Young-Hun, ‘Electronic Nostalgia’, 2020, oil on linen, 80 x 100cm. Image courtesy of Soluna Fine Art.

UNSCHEDULED 2.0
Organised by the Hong Kong Art Gallery Association, UNSCHEDULED 2.0 returns for its second reiteration featuring 15 local galleries. Taking inspiration from this year’s venue at the former flagship location of TopShop, the fair highlights the mutual interactions between fashion and art in a series of mostly solo exhibitions from 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Edouard Malingue Gallery, Whitestone Gallery and more.

Hong Kong Art Gallery Association, 2 to 6 September 2021.

British combat troops abseiling down from a helicopter, September 1964. From "Interventions", "One Day We'll Understand", 2020. Archival image: Imperial War Museums; artist rendition © Sim Chi Yin 2020

One Day We’ll Understand
‘One Day We’ll Understand’ is a solo exhibition by Singapore artist Sim Chi Yin held at Zilberman Gallery, Berlin. Following the artist’s archival research on the 12 year long guerilla war in British Malaya (1948–1960), the show questions the retelling of the war’s atrocities as she revisits her own grandfather’s experiences as a political prisoner because of his work as a left-wing journalist and intellectual at the time. The artist also recently self-published 'She Never Wrote That Trishaw Again', which weaves together vacation photographs of her grandmother Loo Ngan Yue, who was widowed by the war, with oral history interviews that reveal the family's collective trauma. More information about the publication here, including how to purchase,.

Zilberman Gallery, 14 September to 27 November 2021.

‘Where to Plant the Flowers of the Heart II’, 2021, embroidery and oil on canvas, 183 x 244 cm. Image courtesy of the artist.

Tide Table
‘Tide Table’ by Marina Cruz is the Philippine artist’s first museum exhibition in Taiwan at the Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts. Curated by Patrick Flores, the collection of still life paintings, laminated pictures and fabric collages depicts the mundane aesthetics of a life lived. Like a wrinkle to a face, Cruz records the progression of time through the wear and tear of hand-me-down clothing and her childhood home’s flood-stained interior.

Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts and Mind Set Art Center, 16 July to 17 October 2021.