Public sculpture in Singapore Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork created

by shaping or combining hard materials and an important form of public art. And it is a

witness the of landmark.

I am representation of Singapore … every

one want me inside their photograph

What is sculpture?• Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork • created by shaping or combining hard materials.• Common Methods Materials may be worked by removal such as

carving; or they may be assembled such as by welding , hardened such as by firing, or molded or cast. Surface decoration such as paint may be applied. Sculpture has been described as one of the plastic arts because it can involve the use of materials that can be moulded or modulated.

2 Main type of sculpture in Singapore

Realism Vs Abtraction

The Merlion• Artist: Lim Nang Seng • Patron: • Singapore Tourist Promotion

Board (now Singapore Tourism Board)

• Date Created: • 15 September 1972 • First Placed in Singapore: • 1972 • Current Location: • Merlion Park II • entry:

Realism Sculpture

known as direct representation of object or subject in 3-Dimension forms.

Realism,….? What is that?

Artist's statementAnother Day immortalises the coolie - that archetype of the labourer or workman of bygone days. Historically, coolies were bonded workmen who arrived in colonial

Singapore to labout under inhospitable conditions. Many were assigned to work at the waterfront where

trade was fast and furtious.Chong's 'coolies' are more 'recent' manual workers who were still in circulation in the 1970s and 1980s, working

at the warehouses and bumboats before urban redevelopment transformed the Singapore River.

• This is the label for the work as installed in the Singapore National Library, in May 2011.}

• Chong Fah Cheongb. 1946, Singapore

• Another Day (The Coolies)2000Bronze150 x 160 x 130 cmCollection of the artist

Another Day

Alamak… what is the sculpture doing,

here ?

First Generation

• Very site specific, though in a way that opens an interesting contrast: the sculpture shows a behavior that would not be possible in this place, in so many ways.

• Hygiene, public order, etc... This implied transgression balances out the nostalgia in the work

Artist: Chong Fah Cheong Patron: Far East Organization and Singapore Tourism Board First Placed in Singapore: 2000 Current Location: Singapore River, behind Fullerton Hotel

Pedas Pedas

• Artist: Kumari Nahappan • Patron: • National Museum of Singapore • First Placed in Singapore: • 2006 • Current Location: • National Museum of Singapore, Fort Canning

Entrance • Label Text of label: • Kumari Nahappan

Pedas Pedas20062m L x 4m W x 3.8m HBronze with Wax CoveringNational Museum of Singapore

Singapore Botanic Garden - Sculptures

• This work of art is created by Polish

sculptor Karol Badyna.

Abstract Sculpture

known as simplifying or reducing the basic forms in representation of object or subject.

Samsui Women

• Artist: Liu Jilin • Patron: • Urban Redevelopment

Authority • First Placed in Singapore: • 1999 • Current Location: • URA Centre, facing the

Maxwell Road Hawker Centre

'From the Sansui Province, China, we emigrate young and frugal,To the Lion City in Nanyang, we labour and struggle.To seek employment and fortune for our familiesWe toil and sweat and witness the buildingOf Singapore, our pride and future.'The figures, carved from solid dusky-pink granite with rough textured finishing, reflects the hardship and perseverance of these tough women during the 1950's and 1960's.

Mother and Child• Artist: Ng Eng Teng 黄荣庭 • Patron: • Far East Organization • First Placed in Singapore: • 1980 • entry: • One of the most familiar works of public

art in Singapore, it stood for more than twenty years on a busy Orchard Rd pedestrian corner. It seems that recently it moved up the road to rest in front of the Orchard Parade Hotel, so not so far away.

Living World

• Artist: Ju Ming • Patron: • funded by TIBS, for Singapore National Museum centennial celebrations • First Placed in Singapore: • 1987 • Current Location: • in front of the Singapore Art Museum, Bras Basah Rd • entry:

Reclining Figure

• Artist: Henry Moore • Patron: • OCBC Bank, at the insistence of

I.M. Pei • Date Created: • 5 January 1938 • First Placed in Singapore: • 1983 • Current Location: • OCBC Bank Headquarters

Pioneering Spirit (also known as Vitality of the Forerunner)

• Artist: Aw Tee Hong 欧世鸿

• Patron: • Singapore MRT

Corporation • First Placed in Singapore: • 1988 • Current Location: • Raffles Place • entry:

Affinity• Artist: Anthony Poon 方谨顺 • Patron: • Housing and Development Board

(HDB) • First Placed in Singapore: • 2004 • Current Location: • HDB Headquarters, Toa Payoh

Okay

• Singapore Expo1999

• Victor experimented with various poses to make a dramatic pageant where five human figures represented the fingers of a hand making the ‘OK’ sign. This work had its strength not in the story that he has enacted, but in the construction of an energetic visual piece with playful connotations. This sculpture was commissioned through Art 2, even before Victor graduated from his RMIT course.