Performance Responses to "Fernando Zobel: Order is Essential"

Name: Performance Responses to "Fernando Zobel: Order is Essential"
Start: 2025-11-22T14:00:00+08:00
End: 2025-11-22T14:30:00+08:00
Location: 1 St. Andrew’s Road, Singapore, Singapore 178957

Schedule

Sat Nov 22 2025 at 02:00 pm to 02:30 pm

UTC+08:00

Location

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

Performance Responses: "Fernando Zobel: Order is Essential"
Sat 22 Nov | 2pm, 3pm | National Gallery Singapore, City Hall Wing, Level B1, Padang Atrium | Free, registration not required
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Experience a compelling Spanish dance performance inspired by Fernando Zóbel’s engagement with the works of Spanish playwright Federico García Lorca during his academic life at Harvard. Presented by dancer and arts producer Tania Goh, the performance explores themes of love, longing and vulnerability through expressive choreography and music.
Following the performances, catch a performance lecture at 3.45pm by Tania alongside the Gallery's Chief Curator Patrick Flores as they delve into the theme of connections surronding Fernando Zóbel’s artistic journey in front of the artworks on display.
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About the "Fernando Zóbel: Order is Essential"
“Order is essential," the transcontinental Fernando Zóbel once remarked. This philosophy guided both his artistic practice and his methodical exploration of the world. Yet, within this order, his work reveals a tension between structure and spontaneity.
This survey of his art invites you to travel with Zóbel to North America, Asia and Europe, where he practised from the 1940s to the 1980s. You will see his fascination with art history and American Abstract Expressionism in Boston and Rhode Island, his experiments with the syringe as a device for painting in Manila, his deft compositions of black paint on white canvases in Madrid, and his homage to the landscapes of Cuenca. As we trace his travels across the world, we will discover how modernism took different forms in each place and time.
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