Blossom by Isaac Koh Xu En

You are cordially invited to the opening of        

Blossom by Isaac Koh Xu En

Opening Reception on 4^th December 2009 (Friday) at 7pm – 9pm

(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

For detailed map, please visit www.forth,sg/contact.htm
Mon-Sat 12noon – 7pm Sun 12noon – 5pm

The exhibition run from 2^nd December 2009 to 13^th December 2009

Admission for the exhibition is FREE.

About the exhibition

The solo exhibition Blossom exemplifies the budding talent of a young artist, Isaac Koh Xu En. It represents the explosion of life, vibrant and everything beautiful as depicted in his colourful array of creative works. 

Isaac’s encounter with art began with his fascination in drawing Chinese lanterns completed with inscription of Chinese calligraphy, at a very young age. From lantern doodling, his art teacher, Mr Koh Hwee Khoon, subsequently develop his interest to paint a wide variety of subjects. Flowers, especially orchids, as well as sundrenched landscapes and snow-peaked mountains are his forte and the central theme of this exhibition. His style is impressionistic, and he tries to capture reality and the ever-changing nature of light and colour using acrylic on canvas.

The proceeds of this exhibition will be contributed towards the Dr William Tan Fund. Dr William Tan, a Paralympics who has set many world records, is now stricken with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, a rare form of leukemia where the bone marrow turns cancerous. The Dr William Tan Fund is dedicated to defray the cost of his treatment. Any excess funds after his treatment will be channeled to aid other patients at the National University Hospital (NUH) with financial difficulties.

For further information about Dr William Tan and the Fund can be found at https://www.alumnet.nus.edu.sg/AlumnusEnews2.aspx?newsid=c6321baf-7165-4773-b422-8e9bde1719e4&mainid=c6321baf-7165-4773-b422-8e9bde1719e4

                                                                                                                                                      

About the Artist

Isaac Koh, now 8 years old, is a Primary 2 student of Tao Nan School.  He has been under the tutelage of Mr Koh Hwee Khoon since 5 years old. Besides acrylic, he has explored other media, including water colour and Chinese brush painting, and has also shown great interest in Chinese calligraphy. In June 2008, he participated in the Junior Category of the UOB Art Competition. All three submissions to this competition Blossom, Grapevine and Art of Tea will be featured in this solo exhibition. 

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BOUNDLESS THOUGHTS, INFINITE COURAGE by JONATHAN T. RACIMO

You are cordially invited to the opening of         

BOUNDLESS THOUGHTS, INFINITE COURAGE

by JONATHAN T. RACIMO

Opening Reception on 6^th November 2009 (Friday) at 7pm – 9 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

For detailed map, please visit www.forth,sg/contact.htm
Mon-Sat 12noon – 7pm Sun 12noon – 5pm

The exhibition run from 3rd November 09 – 14^th November 09

Attendance at the exhibitions are FREE.

 

About the exhibition

 Boundless Thoughts, Infinite Courage dwells on ordinary and not-so ordinary people with heroic qualities such as the likes of the intrepid freedom fighter, the late President Corazon Aquino who served as a catalyst in moulding Philippine History. She’s metaphorically represented in “The Little Drummer Girl”, which is the artist’s core painting. Armed with an enormous desire for political reform, intense determination and tremendous courage, she led the bloodless People Power Revolution in 1986 and restored democracy in the country. For this reason that we admire and respect these present day heroes who pull disadvantaged people through their wretchedness and destitutions.

The artworks presented in the exhibition recognize and celebrate heroes’ lives, their positive contributions and the adversities they had successfully overcome. The symbolic representation of those unsung heroes who lead normal lives but have got insurmountable willpower to succeed and learn more about themselves are also the main focal points of the images on display. These so-called heroes demonstrated and confirmed to us that impossible were indeed possible. It’s through their selfless thinking and concerted effort that the quality of life improves. Their congregated actions with the infusion of technology are substantial ingredients to society’s development. The artist believes that a country advances as more and more new breed of heroes are created. Moreover, Jonathan Racimo further restates that there’s an untapped hero inside of us and we become heroes when we stop thinking less for ourselves and more for our country.

 

About the Artist

Jonathan T. Racimo is an award-winning, multi-faceted artist who specializes in figurative art. He’s an animator, an illustrator and a painter in the Philippines. He obtained his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Santo Tomas in 1994. He has participated in various exhibitions in the Philippines and has won numerous awards and recognitions from Art Association of the Philippines (AAP), Instituto Cervantes de Manila, Shell National Painting Competition and twice at Metrobank Young Painters Annual Competition, both as a finalist and honourable mention. Most of his artworks are being collected by the founder and chairman of Metrobank Philippines, Dr. George S.K. Ty, PLDT IS Operations Support Manager Cirilo Alberto Lim, US collectors and other private individuals. Presently, he is also a contributing artist to the Wonder Woman Day, an annual art show and silent auction benefitting victims of domestic violence and dedicated to supporting survivors of social justice. Boundless Thoughts, Infinite Courage is Jonathan’s first solo exhibition in Singapore.

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“ONE NIGHT IN BANGKOK” by American painter Chris Coles

You are cordially invited to the opening of “ONE NIGHT IN BANGKOK”

the noir expressionist world of the Bangkok night

by American painter Chris Coles -

 

The opening reception is on WEDNESDAY 5th August 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 16th August 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.

One Night in Bangkok is an event of IndigNation 2009.

 
About the Exhibition:

One night in Bangkok and the world’s your oyster

The bars are temples but the pearls ain’t free

You’ll find a god in every golden cloister

And if you’re lucky then the god’s a she

I can feel an angel sliding up to me

 

-          from the musical Chess, lyrics Tim Rice

 

The blinding neon and shady denizens of the Bangkok night are captured vividly in American painter Chris Cole’s watercolour renditions of the lurid and colourful world of the Thai capital’s notorious nightlife. Heavily distorted lines and strong, clashing colors dominate in these paintings which portray a chaotic, edgy noir world of colliding intention and misplaced desire, lives out of balance, male-female compulsion, alienation and disassociation. They echo the German Expressionist paintings from Berlin in the early 1900’s as well as the Paris nightlife paintings of Toulouse-Lautrec, Degas and the early Picasso. Organized into twinkling street scenes, situational encounters and mesmerizing portraits of the girls, the boys, the kathoeys (ladyboys) and their clients, Chris Cole shows us how the Bangkok night isn’t “only a sordid money-machine servicing the low-end of humanity”, but “an authentic and unique setting in the ongoing cultural history of mankind”.

 

 
About the Artists:

The visual arts representative of the emerging Bangkok noir movement (including the crime fiction of Christopher Moore, Jake Needham, Stephen Leader and John Burdett; and the films of the Pang brothers and Smith Timsawit), Chris Coles is an artist and filmmaker who lives in Los Angeles and Bangkok.  One of the first artists to explore the world of the Bangkok Night, his paintings, in the Expressionist style, are jagged emotional portraits, revealing a raw and primitive layer of the human experience.

 

Chris grew up on the coast of Maine and after graduating from Brown University, received a Watson Fellowship to spend a year living in the Bajuni Islands off the coast of East Africa where he made a series of voyages up and down the coast in Swahili trading dhows.  He has lived and worked in Europe, North America, Asia, the South Pacific, Australia and Greenland. Chris is also a graduate of the British National Film and Television School and has taken art courses at the Otis School in Los Angeles.  Among the films he has worked on are CHAPLIN, L.A. STORY, RAINBOW WAR and BALLET ROBOTIQUE (both nominated for Academy Awards as best dramatic short), CUTTHROAT ISLAND, ROAD TO WELLVILLE,  ROSARY MURDERS, the SUPERMAN films, OUT COLD, the TV series SIRENS and many more.