Exhibition Opening: Thursday Jan 13, 2022. 2pm - 8pm.
Gillman Barracks, 9 Lock Road, 03-21.
In-Person Panel Discussion: Inside the Wild Cube: Artists and Curator in Dialogue
Sunday, 16 Jan. 2022, 2pm, at Gillman Barracks, 9 Lock Road, 03-21.
Click on this link for information and registration
Exhibition Tours: Friday Jan 14 5pm (registration link), Saturday Jan 15 3pm (registration link)
Inside the Wild Cube is an art exhibition purposefully positioned outside the museum and gallery space. It addresses the architectural implications, economic structures and institutional expectations that significantly impact creative labour.
Conceptualised by the collaborative group Progressive Disintegrations, this exhibition asks how one can become aware of one's surroundings, and how these environments shape ways of seeing. Through photography, painting, and installation, the exhibition steps away from the classical independent art space environment and embraces white cube aesthetics, which in this instance are the remains of a former gallery. The works presented in the project investigate how the group’s own history co-mingled with that of the space, can create structures that deeply influence the creative outcomes.
Through the exhibition, the project reconsiders the spatial implications and impact on art production that Brian O’Doherty addressed in his groundbreaking book “Inside the White Cube”. Together with the work of Chua, Gloede, Johandi, and Tay, one of O’Doherty’s seminal rope drawings that impacted his ideas formulated later in his book will be shown. In this way, the exhibition asks what it means to actively create a zone that questions the immediate demands of an art industry, to create a structure of criticality.
Progressive Disintegrations began in early 2020 out of the need to create a format that provides a space to exchange creative and artistic practices between Chua Chye Teck , Marc Gloede, Hilmi Johandi and Wei Leng Tay. The project aimed to open normally individual artistic and curatorial practices up to those of others, creating situations to explore and expand the participants’ notions of their own practices.
This exhibition is supported by the National Arts Council Singapore and Galerie Thomas Fischer, and a part of Singapore Art Week.
Normal Opening Hours:
Jan 13 to Feb 26
Tuesdays to Sundays
11am to 7pm (except public holidays)
Singapore Art Week 2022
Friday Jan 14 – Sunday 23 Jan 23
Fridays (14th and 21st) – 11am – 9pm (longer hours)
Link for exhibition floor plan
Guest artist Brian O'Doherty:
Brian O’Doherty’s work consists of objects, drawings and in-situ installations. He investigates limits of perception, language, serial systems and identity, seeking to engage viewers’ minds as well as their senses. O’Doherty invented several personae and worked as an artist under the pseudonym “Patrick Ireland” from 1972 until 2008. With his essay “Inside the White Cube” from 1976 Brian O‘Doherty became a key figure in the discourse around the presentation of contemporary art.
Brian O’Doherty (born in 1928) lives in New York.
More info: https://galeriethomasfischer.de/artist/brian-odoherty/