EXHIBITION

Thinking of Landscape: Paintings form the Yeap Lam Yang Collection

LASALLE College of the Arts, 03/08/2014 - 04/16/2014

ABOUT

Thinking of Landscape: Paintings from the Yeap Lam Yang Collection is a publication and exhibition project that explores a selection of paintings from the private collection of Yeap Lam Yang, which relate to the subject of landscape. One of Singapore’s most passionate and committed private collectors, Yeap Lam Yang has been building his collection for over 25 years, with a broad focus on Southeast and East Asian and Australian modern and contemporary art. This project is an attempt to share his collection with the public in a meaningful way.

Encompassing works in Chinese ink as well as paintings on canvas and paper,Thinking of Landscape provides interesting opportunities to look at a diverse range of artistic approaches to the genre of landscape, stretching and redefining its parameters, probing its formal, emotive, and conceptual potential. The interplay between the paintings presented here reveals correspondences and tensions that will stimulate thinking on the relationship between the painting traditions of East and West, landscape as an ideology, and its role in contemporary art practice.

On a more intimate level, the project also sheds light on the collector’s process, revealing a parallel narrative of changing tastes and directions, affinities discovered with and between the artworks, and his relationships and friendships developed with artists as he follows their careers. 

The project comprises 60 artworks and series of works by 26 artists from China, Taiwan, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines. Artists include pioneering modernists as well as leading contemporary figures and emerging artists. The notion of landscape as a context for the project is elastic. The ‘landscapes’ that appear are at times deeply rooted in place; at others, they are imaginary or symbolic. In many of the works, landscape represents a sense of personal journey. For certain artists, landscape provides a rich surface narrative for mark making; elsewhere, it is inverted, pared down, and mapped as an imaginative construct.

Thinking of Landscape: Paintings from the Yeap Lam Yang Collection, a 192-page hardback publication, is launched in tandem with the exhibition. It is edited by Beverly Yong and Adeline Ooi and includes essays by Charles Merewether and Low Sze Wee.

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