The pioneer architect will loan his collection to a new retrospective of the art of the Nanyang artist. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SINGAPORE – Pioneer architect Koh Seow Chuan, 84, is observing a selection of his vast collection of Nanyang artist Cheong Soo Pieng on the walls of a private show, and asks with a note of incredulity: “Can they all be from the same hand?”
A survey of his kaleidoscopic output is on show at a new retrospective, organised by Artcommune Gallery at Tanjong Pagar Distripark’s Artspace @ Helutrans. It opened on Saturday and runs till Oct 1. He had dreams of exhibiting a series of these works in post-Cultural Revolution China, but died in 1983 before the show came to fruition. He never sold these works in his lifetime, says Mr Koh, who has acquired a significant number of them.
But Mr Koh – who is also a philatelist, philantropist and patron – could say the same of his own architectural practice. Along with architects Tay Kheng Soon and, he co-founded DP Architects, the firm which designed buildings as varied as the brutalist heft of People’s Park Complex and the thorny domes of the Esplanade.
After arriving in Singapore – and especially after a landmark trip to Bali in 1952 with fellow artists Chen Chong Swee, Chen Wen Hsi and Liu Kang – Cheong became recognised as one of the pioneers of the Nanyang art style, which approached local subject matter with a blend of Western and Chinese artistic traditions.
Noting that artists have to find what is unique, Mr Koh adds that the building, which invites the light of the tropics indoors, was fitted with aluminium sunshades that resemble leaves, comparing this with Cheong’s paintings which feature people sitting under the shade of a tree.
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