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Fascinations of painting with light
two scenes from Singapore National Gallery’s art film festival
A visit to the National Gallery Singapore just never lets me down. And it’s not just the building — which is actually three-in-one: The 1929 former City Hall (also called the Municipal Building — a perhaps somewhat uninspiring Acropolis-like structure alongside the Padang green), the adjacent former Supreme Court (a very British-looking, domed, and porticoed neo-classical edifice by Frank Dorrington Ward, 1939) — and a superb, modern-vernacular connector of both, with an imposing, multi-functional roof structure, by the French Studio Milou, 2010–2015.
Not just this. For an effervescent immersion in the (mostly modern-to-contemporary) SE Asian Art scene, and beyond, this is the go-to venue.
painting with light
Take painting with light, Singapore’s well-loved annual festival now having its 5th edition — combining art films, video art, and international films on art — in a hybrid onsite/online format.
The film fest presents over fifty films, from GIFs to shorts to art projects to full-feature documentaries — all…
