SINGAPORE, July 22 — The National Gallery Singapore will be collaborating with Tate Britain for an exhibition slated for October 2016.
The show, titled Artist And Empire, will look at artistic productions relating to the British Empire, with a selection of works ranging from the 16th century to the present day.
It will be the Singapore museum’s second collaboration with an international institution for an exhibition. Last month, it had announced a show co-curated with France’s Centre Pompidou. Presenting an overview of modern art, it is scheduled to open in April at the museum’s Singtel Special Exhibition Gallery.
Tate Britain will be presenting Artist And Empire in London in November first. For the Singapore version, curators from Tate Britain will be joined by the National Gallery Singapore’s own curatorial team led by Low Sze Wee, Director of Curatorial and Collections, to give the show a more regional focus.
Alongside works loaned from Tate’s collection and other international collections will be works by artists during the British Malayan period, such as Low Kway Song, Abdullah Ariff and Chuah Thean Teng. — TODAY
