everybodyshouldbehappy

 
 

A Solo Exhibition of drawings, paintings and digital prints
by Lee Wen
(14 - 24 Nov 2002)

 
 

Held at Utterly Art (208 South Bridge Road,
Tel: 6226 2605,
open Mon-Sat 11.30 am - 8 pm Sun 12 noon - 5.30 pm)

 

T ext from invite card:

Arthur Danto, art critic and philosopher, once cited Andy Warhol as saying,

"How can you say one style is better than another?
You ought to be able to be an Abstract Expressionist next week,
or a Pop artist, or a realist, without feeling you've given up something."

To Danto, Warhol had proved through his works that we have reached an "end in art history", where artists have no need to contribute to art history, or to propel art into new and risky frontiers.

In this exhibition, one of Singapore's foremost performance artists, Lee Wen, offers instead his two-dimensional work - graphite drawings, oil paintings and digital prints. Does his pluralistic practice in this postmodern age support the end of art history?


Sponsored by National Arts Council and Lasalle-SIA Alumni
 

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