Type
Private commission
Location
National Gallery Singapore, Singapore
Programme
Exhibition design and Technical coordination
Client
Tan Guo Liang
Timeline
12/2020 – 01/2021
Contractor
Kingsmen
Artist
Tan Guo Liang
Team
Yann Follain, Daud Ishak
The work takes the experience of viewing paintings out of the gallery and into a public space
Arrive, Arrive is a series of ‘painterly objects’ that take the form of coloured wing-like structures suspended at the National Gallery Singapore’s Padang atrium. Painted on translucent aeronautical fabric and stretched over wooden frames, the work takes the experience of viewing paintings out of the gallery and into a public space.
Central to the experience of the work is the feeling of suspension. The aerodynamic shape of these painterly objects suggests a sense of flight and the sensation of gliding through air. They are painted with overlapping shades of atmospheric colours, which catch the natural skylight filtered from the atrium’s glass ceiling. Hues and tones shift as we move around the atrium, drawing attention to our embodied experience of colour.
Artist Guo-Liang was commissioned by National Gallery Singapore for this installation, and WY-TO assisted in presenting this artwork at the Light to Night Festival 2021 as the exhibition designer and technical coordinator.
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