SINGAPORE'S VISUAL ARTS CLUSTER

Gillman Barracks was launched in 2012.

It has become the visual arts cluster of Singapore, presenting and discussing the international and Southeast Asian art.

It is also one of the best places to spend your day in Singapore, various exhibitions, interesting constructions,

diners or even children’s center.

One of my favorite exhibitions is “the forbidden world” by “Partners & Mucciaccia”.

It is a solo exhibition of Maurizio Savin, who chose a specific material, chewing gum, to make sculptures. It suprised me a lot after I read the article about the work. He also chooses the most signature color, the bubblegum pink. Chewing gum became a symbol of the new era after it was introduced to Europe at the end of World War 2.

(Gillmanbarracks, 2017)

Another interesting exhibition is the “Immortality Project I” by Sam Jinks.

The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity - activity designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final destiny for man. - Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death (1973)

The whole exhibition is based on this text. He focuses on something eternal. What I think he is trying to express the spirit that won’t die with physical body. Although the sculptures are really lifelike, it is also very difficult to convey his idea.

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