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TO ARTS, AND NATIONAL EDITORS:
Critically Acclaimed Guggenheim UBS MAP Inaugural Exhibition
Showcasing Artistic Creativity In South And Southeast Asia Opens In
Singapore At The Centre For Contemporary Art On May 10, 2014
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NEW YORK and SINGAPORE, March 10, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- From
May 10 to July 20, 2014, Singapore's Centre for Contemporary Art
(CCA), a national research center of the Nanyang Technological
University (NTU), will host the exhibition No Country: Contemporary
Art for South and Southeast Asia, as part of the Guggenheim UBS MAP
Global Art Initiative. The exhibition was first presented in New York
at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (February 22-May 22, 2013) before
its recent showing at the Asia Society Hong Kong Center (October 30,
2013-February 16, 2014).
Curated by June Yap, Guggenheim UBS MAP Curator, South and Southeast
Asia, the exhibition will feature 19 paintings, sculptures,
photographs, videos, and mixed-media works by 16 artists and
collectives from 11 countries, including Bangladesh, Cambodia, India,
Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand,
Vietnam, and the United Kingdom. Through these works, No Country
invites audiences to engage with some of South and Southeast Asia's
most challenging and inventive artists, including Tang Da Wu, who
lives and works in Singapore.
No Country's presentation in Singapore, which brings the artworks to
the region from which many of the artists hail, calls for an even
closer examination of regional cultural representations and relations,
and suggests the possibility of a renewed understanding through a
process of mutual rediscovery that transcends physical and political
borders.
The CCA presentation will mark the debut of two works from the
Guggenheim UBS MAP Purchase Fund not previously shown as part of No
Country: Loss by Sheela Gowda and Morning Glory by Sopheap Pich. The
exhibition also features individual video installation rooms for works
by Tran Luong and the Otolith Group.
Exhibition Overview The exhibition-the title of which was drawn from
the opening line of W.B. Yeats's "Sailing to Byzantium"
(1928)-presents South and Southeast Asia in terms of transformation
and trace, charting patterns of historical and contemporary influence
within and beyond the region itself.
With a narrative stretching back to the ancient kingdoms and empires
from which they emerged, No Country seeks to reflect upon exchanges
and relationships within and between South and Southeast Asian
nation-states, as well as on the overall status of the nation-state
today and the pressures and effects of globalization and colonialism.
The artworks are grouped according to four themes: reflection and
encounter, intersections and dualities, diversities and divisions, and
the desire for unity and community. No Country presents artworks that
challenge and explore the region's historical ambiguities, territories
both psychic and literal, individual subjectivities, and political,
economic, and aesthetic negotiations.
The artists in the exhibition are:
-- Bani Abidi (b.1971, Karachi, Pakistan)
-- Reza Afisina (b. 1977, Bandung, Indonesia)
-- Poklong Anading (b. 1975, Manila, The Philippines)
-- Sheela Gowda (b. 1957, Bhadravati, Karnataka, India)
-- Shilpa Gupta (b. 1976, Mumbai, India)
-- Amar Kanwar (b. 1964, New Delhi, India)
-- Vincent Leong (b. 1979, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
-- Tran Luong (b. 1960, Hanoi, Vietnam)
-- Tayeba Begum Lipi (b. 1969, Gaibandha, Bangladesh)
-- Tuan Andrew Nguyen (b. 1976, Saigon, Vietnam)
-- The Otolith Group (est. 2002, London, United Kingdom)
-- Sopheap Pich (b. 1971, Battambang, Cambodia)
-- Navin Rawanchaikul (b. 1971, Chiang Mai, Thailand)
-- Norberto Roldan (b. 1953, Roxas City, Philippines)
-- Arin Dwihartanto Sunaryo (b. 1978, Bandung, Indonesia)
-- Tang Da Wu (b. 1943, Singapore)
Launched in April 2012, the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative
is a multi-year collaboration that charts contemporary art practice in
three geographic regions-South and Southeast Asia, Latin America, and
the Middle East and North Africa-and encompasses curatorial
residencies, international touring exhibitions, audience-driven
education programming, and acquisitions for the Guggenheim's permanent
collection. All works have been newly acquired for the Guggenheim's
collection under the auspices of the Guggenheim UBS MAP Purchase Fund.
The initiative builds upon and reflects the Solomon R. Guggenheim
Foundation's distinguished history of internationalism and
significantly increases the Guggenheim's holdings of art from these
dynamic communities.
The exhibition is accompanied by a variety of educational programming
at the Centre for Contemporary Art and online. The initiative's online
environment features individual artist pages and writing, audio, and
video by curators, art historians, artists, and regional experts. As
part of its mission to encourage cross-cultural dialogue about
contemporary art and cultural practice, the Guggenheim has worked in
close collaboration with the CCA and Singapore's National Art Gallery
to develop interactive exhibition touring strategies for adults and
youth. Teacher Resource Guides will be provided in print and online
formats, and teacher workshops, hosted by Singapore Teacher's Academy
for the Arts (STAR), will focus on ways that teachers can introduce
contemporary art to their classrooms.
For more information visit: Initiative Website: guggenheim.org/MAP
Centre for Contemporary Art Website: gillmanbarracks.com/visit.php
June Yap's
Biography guggenheim.org/new-york/about/staff-profiles/curators/june-yap
Social Media: guggenheim.org/connect
For updates, follow #GuggUBSMAP on Twitter. For a complete press kit,
go to guggenheim.org/presskits.
SOURCE Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
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