ART GALLERIES > The Drawing Room

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Martin Heine, Voltaire, Inversion number 170, 2010

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Martin Heine, Old Man and Dog Sniffing Out Nuclear Power Station, 2014

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Thilo Westermann, Lilies and Card with Putto, 2013

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Trek Valdizno, The Unicorn, 2014

Exhibition
Magis Autumn
28 Mar 2014 - 27 Apr 2014

This group exhibition gathers three artists who examine the notion of technique in contemporary art practices. Martin Heine employs what he calls the “reverse iconography.” Literally working from the back of the canvas, his painting process is described as a performative act that denies the artist’s ego where each brush mark disappears into the void and goes to the core of art. Trek Valdizno achieves a similar obsessive aesthetic to his paintings but he goes through an equally tedious method in rolling oil paint into beads to make up his images. Thilo Westermann uses the old technique of reverse glass painting – a method, which, as opposed to regular oil painting, acts from front to back – to create a realistic depiction of objects that is usually only achieved in the medium of photography.

The Drawing Room
5 Lock Road, #01-06, Singapore 108933

The Drawing Room is a contemporary art gallery in the Philippines and Singapore. It features artists from the Philippines in the solo projects of sculpture and installation. The artists that The Drawing Room represents are critical towards ideas of neocolonialism, history’s debris in a cosmopolitan world and other practices formed in the experience of diaspora. 

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