Dear Friends,
You are cordially invited to YANG GALLERY • Singapore ‘SPLENDOR 光芒十射’ Grand Opening Exhibition Cocktail.
Date: 23rd Sep 2017, 2-5 pm
Venue: 581 Orchard Road, The Shopping Hilton, #01-11 / #02-22, Singapore 238883
‘SPLENDOR’ Grand Opening Exhibition showcases the most established contemporary artists
from China, Europe & Singapore.
YANG GALLERY sincere thanks our sponsors: JPMorgan Bank, Cartier, Moet Hennessy Diageo, The French Cellar & Hilton Hotel to make this spectacular contemporary fine art exhibition a great success.
It is our greatest pleasure to invite you to join us in this special art event and looking forward to
your presence soon! – Susanna Yang, September 2017
Foreword
I use splendiferous as title of this exhibition as the word shows the interplay between its original meaning and its figurative significance.
From origin of the word we find it signifying ‘containing or carrying dazzling brightness’ and gradually it becomes to mean full of splendor, this is definitely not a word you may often encounter in everyday life, yet I find it most precisely designate the spirit of our exhibition. We exhibit works of established & distinctive artists; we hope the audience will find this comprehensive character appealing. The other significance of splendiferous is the brilliance ‘contained’ in each artist, each artists shows in their works their unique style, just like a poem says ‘one man, the world he lives in, one flower, the heaven it blossoms’.
Usually, exhibitions of a subject matter emphasize similarities among artists so that one can tell the subject matter from works of those several similar artists; this exhibition is to the contrary, the subject matter is constituted by differences among those artists, so that each individual artist shows his own style and creativity. This hodgepodge layout certainly bears on the open mind of the chief of YANG GALLERY.
As promoter of contemporary art, Miss Yang endeavors at showing the multitude the resourcefulness of it. In fact, contemporary art has in recent years changed drastically, firstly, on slimming down of form of consciousness; contemporary art expresses a different kind of form of consciousness, but is going back to its proper cultural context and becoming a kind of humanistic narrative of everyday life. The abundant possibilities of everyday life cultivate the richness of contemporary art and the latter displays the complex characteristic that are constantly changing under different perspective of readings from the audience. This exhibition tries to show such a diversity, the artists are all exemplars, combined together they cover almost the thirty years of the history of contemporary art.
It can be seen that works of the artists all stand for different types in contemporary art. I entitle the exhibition ‘SPLENDOR’ not only for the difference of their types, more importantly are their being exemplars. It is not inappropriate, based on their being representative of contemporary art, that I call their splendor. – Yang Wei, September 2017