PROSPEKTS 2009: Group show by Amihan, Angelo Tabije and Zean Cabangis

You are cordially invited to the opening of
PROSPEKTS 2009
Group show by Amihan, Angelo Tabije and Zean Cabangis

WEDNESDAY 8th JULY 2009 at 7 pm
69A Pagoda Street (2nd Level – above Bee Cheng Hiang)
Singapore 059228
Tel: 6222 7809
Website: www@forth.sg
MRT: Chinatown Station Exit A
For detailed map, please visit www.forth,sg/contact.htm
Mon-Sat 12noon – 7pm Sun 12noon – 5pm (Closed on Public Holiday)

The exhibition runs till SUNDAY 19th JULY 2009.

Additional sales enquiries may be made through UTTERLY ART
Tel: 6226 2605 HP: 9487 2006 (Keng Hock)
Email: utterlyart@pacific.net.sg

Forth Gallery can be contacted at 62227809 (Debbie) or debbie@forth.sg.

Attendance at the exhibitions are FREE.
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About the Exhibition:
PROSPEKTS begins a new series of exhibitions co-organized with Kaida Gallery which introduces young contemporary Filipino artists into Singapore. PROSPEKTS 2009 brings together works from three painters, Amihan, Angelo Tabije, and Zean Cabangis, threaded together by their individual contemplations on the changing times.

A painter and a theater artist hailing from the Jumalon family of painters, Amihan’s works straddle the surreal and the foreboding: images of women, war, and medieval implements of violence, all shrouded in a scratchy mist. Disconcertingly ambiguous, Amihan’s images span issues of gender and identity, memory and reality, drawing out a sense of unease and a foreboding of violence.

Angelo Tabije’s paintings juxtapose images of hi-tech machinery and manufactured technologies over colonial images of pre-Hispanic and indigenous Filipinos. Gears, levers, and minute parts of the machine become elaborate headdresses, like grotesque artifacts from a lost civilization. A reflection on the role of technology and identity, Tabije’s paintings are concerned with our over-reliance on technology, to the point that society no longer recognizes how machines affect people and their environment.

Providing a counterpoint to Tabije’s warnings, Zean Cabangis’ work attempts to show that modern technology need not necessarily be a hindrance to art making or painting itself. Instead, it is an additional tool in creating more dynamic and inspiring works. Images are unified by a merging of computer-manipulated images and painterly techniques, such as dripping, washes, and splatters. The paintings manifest a seamless tension created by the duality between control and spontaneity, the digital and the painterly.

About the Artists:
Hailing from the Jumalon family of painters in Zamboanga City in Southern Philippines, Amihan has been in the local art scene for 20 years. She held a solo exhibition at the Cultural Center of the Philippines in Manila in 2002 and has exhibited in various art spaces throughout the archipelago, including Zamboanga, Davao, Cagayan, Dipolog, Baguio, Bacolod, and Dumaguete.

Angelo Tabije graduated from the University of the Philippines, College of Fine Arts(BFA) and was awarded with distinctions at various national art competitions, most notably the Grand Prize (Oil/Acrylic Category) at the 6th Art Petron National
Competition in 2006. Tabije was also a Finalist in the 38th Shell National Art Competition (Oil/Acrylic category) in 2005, the 2007-2008 PLDT-DPC Telephone Directory Cover 21st Visual Art Competition, and the 7th Art Ptron National Student Art Competition (Oil/Acrylic category).

Zean Cabangis finished his Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), majoring in Painting, at the UP College of Fine Arts, distinguishing himself upon graduation with the Most
Outstanding Thesis award and a Gawad Chancellor Award for Academic Acheivement in 2006. He has been part of numerous group shows, including the Shell National Students Art Competition as a Finalist in 2004, as well as exhibitions at Kaida Art Gallery, the Cultural Center of the Philippines, Art Informal, and Pinto Gallery.

DOUBLE CROSS an exhibition of contemporary prints and drawings by Tom BAGGALEY

You are cordially invited to the opening of DOUBLE CROSS by Tom BAGGALEY

Opening Reception on 26th June 09, Friday from 7pm to 9pm @ FORTH GALLERY
(above Bee Cheng Hiang on Pagoda St, just outside
Chinatown NE Line MRT Station Exit A)
69A Pagoda Street (2nd Level)
Singapore 059228
Tel: 6222 7809
Email: sales@forth.sg or justin@forth.sg
For detailed map, please visit www.forth,sg/contact.htm
Mon-Sat 12noon – 7pm Sun 12noon – 5pm

The exhibition run from 27 June to 6 July 2009

Attendance at the exhibitions are FREE.

About the artist

Tom Baggaley was born in 1973 in London, England, to a father who was a lecturer in printmaking and a mother who worked with textiles and ceramics. Influenced by his artistic home life, he followed in his father’s footsteps and on leaving school, started his fine art education. He received a BA Honours in Printmaking and Creative Book Arts from Croydon College in 2003 and then went on to study at the University of Brighton, where he gained an MA in Fine Art Printmaking and Professional Practice in 2005.

Tom is currently living in the Middle East, where he is Lecturer in Printmaking at the University of Sharjah, UAE. Prior to this, he was studio coordinator and taught printmaking at the London Print Studio and the University of Hertfordshire, UK.

In addition to his dedication to printmaking, Tom also explores painting, drawing and digital image-making. His work has been widely exhibited internationally with recent exhibitions including Originals 08 at the Mall Galleries, London and Peace Cards at the Al Kahf Gallery, Bethlehem; UNESCO, Sharjah and ACU Gallery, Australia. He also curated Story, an exhibition of contemporary printmaking held at the Rewak Gallery, Sharjah, UAE.

He is a member of the Printmakers’ Council and has received several awards for his work including from the Printmakers’ Council and the London Print Studio.

The works

Double Cross will feature a series of etching, screen printing and drawings created especially for this exhibition. This will be Tom’s first solo exhibition to be held in Singapore and coincidentally, will be Forth Gallery’s first print exhibition since its inception.

Repetitive patterns and lines are Tom’s visual expressions of his relationship to the world. His fascination with gaps, lines, numbers, and drawing inspiration from them, Tom created works that are about structure, order and disorder.

The artist has created a limited edition of hand made silkscreen invitation cards and will be present to sign them on the opening night.

For more information of the artist and his work, please contact Ms Yvonne Lee at 9177 0354 or email lychsg@gmail.com.

JUST LOOKING by MELVIN CULABA

You are cordially invited to the opening of JUST LOOKING
by MELVIN CULABA

THURSDAY 11th JUN 2009 at 7 pm @ FORTH GALLERY
(above Bee Cheng Hiang on Pagoda St, just outside
Chinatown NE Line MRT Station Exit A)
69A Pagoda Street (2nd Level)
Singapore 059228
Tel: 6222 7809
Email: sales@forth.sg or justin@forth.sg
For detailed map, please visit www.forth,sg/contact.htm
Mon-Sat 12noon – 7pm Sun 12noon – 5pm

The exhibition runs till SUNDAY 21st JUN 2009.

Additional sales enquiries may be made through UTTERLY ART
Tel: 6226 2605 HP: 9487 2006 (Keng Hock)
Email: utterlyart@pacific.net.sg

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Melvin Culaba is a dark expressionist Philippine painter who offers
brooding insights into his surrounding social milieu. His second solo
exhibition in Singapore deals with apathy, about how people “just look” at problems, criticize, offer unhelpful comments, yet not lift a finger to solve the underlying conditions. In large epic canvases, his monstrous characterizations of people and objects, and somber, swirling palette mirrors the dire ills of the society he sees.

Melvin Culaba (b. 1971) graduated from the University of Santo Tomas with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1993, and has exhibited extensively in the Philippines, Korea and the United States. He has been a Finalist at the Philip Morris Philippine Art Awards from 1995-98 and 2006, and won several top awards at the Art Association of the Philippines annual painting competition and Metrobank Young Painters annual competition. He won a full grant for residency at the Vermont Studio Centre in 2005 and is a commissioned artist for the Official Christmas Cards of President Gloria Arroyo. Just Looking is his 11th solo exhibition and 2nd in Singapore.