[11AM] Curator Tour | Teo Eng Seng: We’re Happy. Are You Happy?

Name: [11AM] Curator Tour | Teo Eng Seng: We’re Happy. Are You Happy?
Start: 2024-10-19T11:00:00+08:00
Location: 1 St. Andrew’s Road, Singapore, Singapore 178957

Schedule

Sat Oct 19 2024 at 11:00 am

UTC+08:00

Location

1 St. Andrew’s Road, Singapore, Singapore 178957 | Singapore, SG

Curator Tour | Teo Eng Seng: We’re Happy. Are You Happy?
Sat 19 Oct 2024 | 11am | Singtel Special Exhibition Gallery 1 (near Lift Lobby B), Level 3, City Hall Wing, National Gallery Singapore | Free, registration required: https://bit.ly/TESCuratorTour*

*This programme is free for exhibition ticket holders. You will be directed to purchase an admission ticket to "Teo Eng Seng: We're Happy. Are You Happy?". For Gallery Insiders, please email [email protected] to directly sign up for the tour.
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In this special tour, exhibition co-curator Roy Ng will bring you through artist Teo Eng Seng’s practice across seven decades. Explore Teo’s paintings, paperdyesculp works, sculptures and large-scale installations in a non-chronological order, and delve deeper into the ways the broader environment he has lived, worked and taught in has resonated with him emotionally to result in his works.
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About the curator
ROY NG is Assistant Curator at National Gallery Singapore. He co-curated the exhibitions "Living Pictures: Photography in Southeast Asia" (Dec 2022–Aug 2023) and "Nam June Paik: The Future is Now" (Dec 2021–Mar 2022). He completed an MSt in History of Art and Visual Culture from Trinity College, University of Oxford.
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About the exhibition
National Gallery Singapore presents "Teo Eng Seng: We’re Happy. Are You Happy?" as part of the SG Artist series, where you can discover the innovative spirit of Singapore artists and their commitment to experimental artmaking. This is the most expansive solo exhibition yet, celebrating Teo’s profound impact on the Singapore art scene.
Teo Eng Seng (b. 1938, Singapore) is an artist whose dynamic, seven-decade career is marked by a playful and evolving approach. Teo transforms everyday materials into vibrant works of art, embedding humour and irony into his socially engaged practice. His creations, full of spontaneous and vivid compositions, reflect his tongue-in-cheek takes on personal and broader social events.
Teo’s practice undermines conventional ways of thinking about and making art while staying relevant to local and global issues. By asking “We’re Happy. Are You Happy?” the exhibition invites you to explore Teo’s honest and witty negotiation between self and society.
For more information, please visit: https://nationalgallery.sg/teoengseng2024
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