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.

Singapore Guidance Angel BY RICHARD LIM HAN 新加坡守护神- 林汉

                   

You are cordially invited to the opening of 

Singapore Guidance Angel 新加坡守护神 BY RICHARD LIM HAN 林汉

Opening Reception on 24th July 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 22 July to 02 August 2009

Attendance at the exhibitions are FREE.

 About the Exhibition:

Singapore Guidance Angel 

3 years of my creative artworks, i have chosen “Human Figure” as my main source of inspiration. These figure are recent historical representative who are courageous and legendary. Their brilliant contribution to the world is respectable for all such as Gandhi from India, Mother Teresa, South Africa Nelson Mandela and China’s Chairman Mao Zhi Dong. Singapore Senior Minister – Mr Lee Kuan Yew also became my recent year human figure artworks aspiration.

After reading the Biogragphy of MM Lee Kuan Yew, i felt the sense of respect and admiration toward him. Not because he was our Prime Minister or  Minister Mentor but because of his patience & diligent of nurturing Singapore like his own child into an independent country known to the world. At 42 years old, MM Lee became the 1st Prime Minister in Singapore and have taken up the challenge with his intelligent, wit and sharp political judgement & strategy to make Singapore a Miracle. He had created the present strong, prosperous and independent country. On MM Lee, we can see the quality that make a outstanding leader.

He might have created a storm during his leadership years as Singapore Prime Minister but now even as he aged, he is still be guiding Singapore through the present economic crisis and will not even take his rest. To me, MM Lee is Singapore Guidance Angel and will continue to look over Singapore with his presence.

 

About the Artists:

An Artist specializing in modern and chinese paintings. His Father, Mr Lim Kok Yong, a well known artist from China, spurred his interests in calligraphy at a very young age.

Richard started his career as a fabric print designer. In 1998, he left his business to focus on being a freelance artist. Between 1998 to 2003, he visited Shaoxin, Hanzhou and Shanghai to rediscover his chinese roots and to improve his calligraphy and chinese stone seal craving skills. Richard works from his two private art studios in Shaoxin and Singapore.

关于画展: 

三年来的创作里, 人像画是一块主要的组成拼图. 在我所选择探索创作的主人翁,大部分都是近代历史中伟大, 富有传奇性的人物. 他们的一生都是浪漫, 辉煌,所作所为, 都足以让人们肃然起敬, 普世楷模. 如印度圣雄甘地, 修女泰利莎, 南非的黑人领袖德拉,新中国的建国者毛泽东等等.新加坡资政李光耀先生是我近年来主要的创作对像.

我曾经拜读了李光耀资政的回忆录之后,我对李光耀资政有一种莫名的崇拜和敬仰.那不是因为他是一位总理或资政,我觉得他有一棵赤子之心.义无反顾的精神, 他为国为民费尽心思.在从政过程中也曾经冒险犯难与政敌和极端分子斗智斗勇.42岁成为新加坡第一任总理,挑起国家生死存亡的重担.以他的聪明与才智,敏锐的资治判断力和战略眼光创造了新加坡奇迹.一手塑造了一个富强独特的小国.在他的身上我们看到了伟人所俱有的各种优良品质他都拥有.

当年叱咤风云的李光耀资政现在也垂垂老矣,,岁月不留情, 英雄豪杰, 凡夫俗子都一样不能躲避生命的规律,但是不不管怎样, 这位快乐的老人所创造的国家可以永存,富强不息. 因为他是我们 新加坡的守护神,永远的守护神.守护这块幸福的土地.

 关于画家:

林汉专于现代与中国画.他的父亲是中国著名画家也是鼓励和培养林汉从小写书法的兴趣.  汉开始是一位织布图案设计师.在1998年,他离开了他的生意专注于做一名自由画家.在1998到2003年之间,他去了绍兴,杭州和上海去寻根同时也学习与进修他的书法和篆刻.  现在他在新加玻与中国的绍兴都有自己的画室来作他的美术创作.

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