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Becoming Lim Tze Peng | Special Dialogue Tour by Choy Weng Yang and Jennifer LamSat 1 March 2 pm | National Gallery Singapore, City Hall Wing, Level 4 Gallery | Free, registration required: https://bit.ly/LTP_CWYTour
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"Becoming Lim Tze Peng" delves into the complex artistic evolution and story of this centennial artist through various routes into his landscapes, mindscapes, and “heartscapes.” This journey unfolds as a compelling narrative of growth, one that is deeply rooted in Singapore's settings and influenced by global artistic movements.
Join artist-curator Choy Weng Yang and exhibition curator Jennifer Lam for a dialogue tour as they delve into Lim Tze Peng's remarkable journey in ink art and provide insights into his profound thoughts and transformative experiences.
This tour will be conducted in English.
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Choy Weng Yang is an artist, curator, arts writer, and educator, and one of the foremost abstract painters of post-independence Singapore. Choy participated in many exhibitions in Singapore, and held his solo show in 2000. In 1978, Choy was appointed as a curator of art at the National Museum of Singapore, where he contributed to the design of the National Museum Art Gallery and graphic designs for the art exhibitions. He also wrote for several publications and monographs, and was contributing writer for Singapore Artists, published by the Ministry of Culture in 1982 for the National Day Art Exhibition. Choy has written widely for the Singapore’s second-generation artists such as Thomas Yeo, Teo Eng Seng, and Anthony Poon, and also contributed to monographs of artists such as Lim Yew Kuan, Ho Chee Lik and Henry Chen KeZhan.
Jennifer K. Y. Lam is a Curator at the National Gallery Singapore. She has been actively contributing to its permanent galleries and changing exhibitions such as "Rediscovering Treasures: Ink Art from the Xiu Hai Lou Collection" (2017), "(Re)Collect: The Making of Our Art Collection" (2018), and "Wu Guanzhong: Expressions of Pen & Palette" (2018). Read in Art History from The University of Hong Kong, she also holds an MA in Curating Contemporary Art from Royal College of Art. Her research interest lies in epistemology through curation, collection building, art of Singapore and the ink medium.
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