by Detikhot
Photo: Tia Agnes
Marina Bay Sands – During the five-day event from 20-24 January, Art Stage Singapore 2016 successfully attracted 40,500 visitors. The visitors included international art collectors and foreign art lovers.
Among them were Simon de Pury from the Auction House representative, architect Rem Koolhaas, American artist Joan Jonas who represented the American Pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennale, Belgian art collector Alain Servais, Daisuke Miyatsu from Japan, Deddy Kusuma from Indonesia, Lu Xun from China, and Robbie Antonio from the Philippines.
For the first time, the founder of de Pury Auction House de Pury, Simon de Pury attended Art Stage Singapore for the 6th time. Through the largest exhibition in Asia that focuses on introducing Southeast Asian artists, Art Stage was able to become a meeting point for world collectors.
“Art collectors from Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Australia met at Art Stage and I plan to return next year,” said Simon. detikHOT also had the opportunity to visit the exhibition held at the Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention at the invitation of Art Stage Singapore 2016.
This time, there were 173 art galleries from 34 countries participating. The names of the world’s big galleries also enlivened it, not only those based in Singapore.
Such as from Artinformal (Philippines), ARNDT (Singapore/Berlin), Finale Art File (Philippines), FOST Gallery (Singapore), Galleria Continua (Italy), Nadi Gallery (Indonesia), Ota Fine Arts (Singapore), Pearl Lam Galleries (Hong Kong/Singapore), Richard Koh Fine Art (Malaysia), ShanghART Gallery (China/Singapore), Tomio Koyama Gallery (Japan), STPI (Singapore), Sundaram Tagore Gallery (Singapore/Hong Kong/New York), Arario Gallery (Korea), Sullivan & Strumpf (Australia), Wei-Ling Gallery (Malaysia) and White Cube Gallery (England).
For the first time, Art Stage Singapore 2016 presents ‘The Southeast Asia Forum’. In addition to the art exhibition entitled ‘Seismograph: Sensing the City – Art In the Urban Age’ there are 10 discussion sessions presenting internationally renowned speakers.
“Art Stage presents a different sensation from other art fairs and I really enjoy every artwork, especially Tiffany Chung’s project and UuDam Tran Nguyen’s ‘Serpents Tails’ video,” he said.
Five years earlier, quoted from the ‘Catalyst’ catalog book published by Art Stage Singapore 2016, in 2011 with 121 art galleries, it was able to present 32,000 visitors. The following year, there were 35,000 visitors from 133 galleries that displayed their works. In 2013, there were 40,500 visitors from 131 galleries.
Two years ago, the figure reached 45,700 visitors from 158 art galleries. And in 2015, the number of visitors reached the highest throughout the implementation of Art Stage Singapore. Namely, 51,000 visitors from 167 art galleries.
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