P for Paint

[Gallery impression, P for Paint, NUS MUSEUM, 2010]
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Date: 20 Oct 2010 – 30 Jan 2011
Venue: Atrium Gallery, NUS Museum

26 students from the Division of Industrial Design, School of Design and Environment, NUS collaborated with ICI Dulux to investigate the fundamental values of paint. Through a study of the essence and particularities of paint as a product, and painting as an experience, more than a hundred definitions of paint emerged. P for Paint features works by the students who had each selected a statement from the collection of definitions and expounded it into communicative visual pieces. This exhibition is a showcase of imaginative inquiry through product, meaning and experience.


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Publication: Working The Tropical Garden

 
Contents

Foreword | Ahmad Mashadi 

A Mural in the New Nation | Foo Su Ling

Tracing Two Ng Eng Teng Murals

Virtual Conservation

Working the Tropical Garden

[Image credit: Ng Eng Teng, Asian Symphony (detail), 1971, Ciment Fondu]

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Date: 15 Oct 2010 - 6 Nov 2011
Venue: NET Temporary Gallery, NUS Museum

Asian Symphony, Ng Eng Teng’s largest known public mural measuring 1.8 x 9 m, was commissioned for the Garden Hotel in 1971. Conceived in an era when Singapore was beginning to emphasise environmental planning as the key to sustainable development, the mural is an idealised expression of man’s synergistic relationship with nature. It was recently donated to the NUS Museum and is now installed at National University Health System building at Kent Ridge.

This exhibition brings together working sketches and a maquette which were part of Ng’s preparatory work for the mural, as well as other materials which elucidate the artist’s articulation and treatment of the figure. The displays complement the Museum’s permanent exhibition Sculpting Life: The Ng Eng Teng Collection, allowing a survey of key thematic and formal interests which the artist had explored since the 1960s.



Curator: Foo Su Ling
Artist: Ng Eng Teng

Publication:
Contents
Foreword | Ahmad Mashadi
A Mural in the New Nation | Foo Su Ling
Tracing Two Ng Eng Teng Murals
Virtual Conservation

 Click here for the exhibition brochure in PDF format