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GREAT BRITS 每 The New Alchemists at Earl Lu Gallery,
LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts |
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13 January 每 12 February 2006 |
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The Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore
is pleased to present Great Brits 每 The New Alchemists. |
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Curated by the British Council and the
Design Museum, London, this exhibition will showcase the works of a new
generation of talented young British designers who share a passion for
experimentation with new materials and technologies and for exploring
the transformative 每 or alchemic 每 possibilities of design. |
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Although just at the start of their career,
the emerging designers featured in Great Brits 每 The New Alchemists 每
Pascal Anson, Michael Cross and Julie Mathias, Julia Lohmann, Matthias
Megyeri and Peter Traag 每 have already developed a distinctive approach
to design. Pascal Anson gives new life to abandoned objects by
reinventing them as sets. |
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The exquisite, yet provocative lightings of
Michael Cross and Julie Mathias flirt with danger by submerging electric
light bulbs in water. |
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Julia Lohmann transforms food industry＊s
waste such as cowhides and sheep＊s stomachs into furniture and lighting. |
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Matthias Megyeri investigates our obsession with
security by customising ＆cute＊ security devices. |
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Peter Traag creates ingenious furniture by
working with unusual production processes. |
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＆The British Council is delighted to be able
to work with ICA Singapore again. Great Brits 每 The New Alchemists
exhibition follows hot on the heels of one of the most successful
exhibitions, Asian Field by UK sculptor Antony Gormley in October 2005.＊
says Lena St George-Sweet MBE, Director Arts, British Council Singapore. |
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＆Alchemy is the art of turning base
materials into gold or silver, and this is exactly what the five young
UK designers will do in this exhibition. These designers will
miraculously transform banal materials, processes, objects and
typologies into something extraordinary. The exhibition, which we hope
will surprise the viewer with the unexpected, will be yet another
exciting start to ICA Singapore＊s calendar of events. The exhibition is
curated by Emily Campbell, British Council London; and Alice Rawsthorn,
Design Museum, UK＊, the director adds. |
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This is the second Great Brits 每 The New
Alchemists exhibition of the work of young British designers organised
by the Design Museum and the British Council. |
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The first exhibition in 2003 identified the
emergence of a new romanticism in design. In this exhibition, the
curators explore the development of a raw and surreal design aesthetic
that challenges the conventional design processes and approaches,
transmuting the common into the extraordinary. |
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Established by LASALLE-SIA College of the
Arts, the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) Singapore is devoted to
the exhibition and research of international and Asian contemporary art
and design. |
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The ICA Singapore, through its exhibition
programme at its exhibition facility, the Earl Lu Gallery, has showcased
works by artists such as Antony Gormley, On Kawara, Gerhard Richter,
Gavin Turk, Robert Sagerman, Jason Salavon and Yang Fudong, among
others. |
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