Telah Terbit (Out Now) , Southeast Asia Contemporary Art Practices During the 1970s
Group Exhibition Singapore Art Museum, Singapore

Artists: TANG Da Wu 唐大雾 | 

Presented as a special exhibition of the Singapore Biennale 2006, Telah Terbit was intended as a historical background to contemporary art in Southeast Asia. The exhibition featured works from the collection of the Singpaore Art Museum, National Art Gallery of Malaysia, National Museum and Ateneo Art Gallery of the Philippines, artists and private collectors.

Telah Terbit was organised along the curatorial theme of re-looking at form and figure in art during the 1960s to 1980s – [re:form] and [re:figure]. Form and figure are two basic elements in art. Every single mark in an artwork suggest a form in the physical and material sense, as well as a figure in the personal and expressive sense. ‘Figurative’ in literature denotes metaphor. In visual arts, it refers to recognisable figure or objects portrayed in an artwork. It is, however, through the use of forms that such subject matters are articulated. Hence, figure and form are overlapping categories and often it is through the discussions and debates of their relations that art criticism may be situated. Such discussions are also historically specific, as we can see in Telah Terbit, where artists addressed conventional understandings of form and figure through new perspectives.[...]

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