One of Singapore’s most notable artist and photographer, John Clang debunks talk of him being sentimental, the nature of commercial photography and the delicate balancing of his own art in this candid interview with Esquire magazine.
Having had a solo show earlier this year at the National Museum of Singapore, where he displayed a staggering series of works documenting families and kinship, the man honors his craft with a sensitiveness and integrity that well reminds us of the Heroic Artisan..
Hear it from the man himself here.
Tags: Art, Inspiration, John Clang, People, Photography
May 28th, 2013
Posted in Musings
Art enthusiasts whose inclines have always been skewed towards art from the east and lesser-known regions of the world , there is reason to rejoice. With shifts in art-buying from the western hemisphere to Asia, Guggenheim Museum leads the pack with its UBS MAP Global Art Initiative, where the museum will focus on buying art from three main geographic areas- South and Southeast Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East and North Africa.
Organized by June Yap, an independent curator from Singapore and comprising of a total of 22 artists and collectives hailing from the Indian subcontinent, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, the show is quite aptly, or ironically titled ‘No Country’.
Read more about it here.
Tags: Art, Asia, Guggenheim, Lifestyle, Museum
April 11th, 2013
Posted in Musings
” While most of the Western world divides the day into two halves — a.m. and p.m. — Russians tend to think in terms of four quarters: morning, day, evening and night. Typical ways to describe time in Russian include phrases such as ‘I woke up at 7 in the morning’ or ‘I will stop by at 2 in the afternoon’ or ‘Someone was making a lot of noise at 11 at night,” Mr. Chaykin said. Using revolving indicators, the Quartime presents these four time sections, each allowed a six-hour window.”
Introducing Konstantin Chaykin, a self-taught watchmaker who started from selling watches to fixing them, and then reading up on all the sources he could lay his hands on.
“He started, with a confidence based on blissful ignorance, a tourbillon- the complicated mechanism invented by the 18th-century master Abraham-Louis Breguet that remains to this day one of the supreme tests of watchmaking skill.”
Read about it here.
Tags: Art, Craft, Horology, Inspiration, Lifestyle, Timepiece, Tourbillon Watchmaker, Watch
April 11th, 2013
Posted in Musings
