Funky-smelling perfumes! Crazed Pinoy performance artist! Filipino art at SAM!
From Saturday onwards, Singapore Art Museum will be going gaga over Pinoy art, with two exhibitions. Woot. There’s Thrice Upon A Time: A Century of Story in the Art of the Philippines, which runs until Jan 31, and In the Eye of Modernity: Philippine Neo-Realist Masterworks, until March 14. I just came from the media tour of both works, but they haven’t finished setting up four of the eight galleries for Thrice Upon A Time, so for the sake of fairness, I’ll have to postpone my “Score Card” blog entry until all the works are up. Apparently, those are the ones that will have some of the “crazier” stuff that this RAT craves for. But there are two contemporary installations I got to see: Alwin Reamillo’s installation of an actual piano, created from different leftover parts from various different pianos, as a homage to his piano-maker father. It was an idea that began from Reamillo’s stint at one of the previous Future of Imagination events in Singapore. Then, there’s this one.