“My artistic and intellectual pursuits are grounded in a simple sense of purpose: to be fully alive.”
Jana Benitez, born in New York to a Filipino family, had her first solo exhibition at age 12.
At the recent opening reception of INCARNET by Jana Benitez at Galerie Steph. I had the pleasure to meet the talented young artist and asked her a few questions.
Chan Hampe Galleries at Raffles Hotel presents Face2Face – A solo exhibition by Singaporean artist Rofizano Zaino, curated by Daniela Beltrani. A graphic designer by profession and self-taught painter by vocation, Zaino or Rofi, as he is known, conveys his message through his acrylic canvases, installation and mixed media works. Rofi invites viewers to take a closer look at his subjects, to get a deeper sense of the emotion that lies within. His figures are bold but rendered sensitively to draw out the vulnerabilities of each character.
Face2Face highlights the ethnic diversity that is prevalent in multi-cultural Singapore. Racial diversity is heavily imprinted into the collective psyche yet the legacy of a colonial past and an outmoded system of racial classification (more…)
Be it in a meeting, a lecture, or at a café, give anyone a pen or a pencil and the instinct is to doodle. While it may not be considered high art, this shows how intrinsic artistic expression is to human nature.
Over the centuries, technological progress has given man new mediums to work in, from the advent of paper to the development of smart phones (for example, David Hockney’s paintings using the iPhone have been displayed at the Royal Academy in London and the Pierre Berge-Yves St. Laurent Foundation in Paris). However, the earliest examples of human symbolism is said to date as far back as 70,000 to 100,000 years ago, where engraved beads and egg shells were used in Africa, predating even the earliest examples of European cave paintings.