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Singapore Art Museum, Published 2012. Hardcover, 111 pp.; 26 cm; exhibition catalogue for The Singapore Show: Future Proof, 14 January - 15 April 2012; illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs of the artworks; essays printed on a natural, undyed paper stock, artist section on bright white stock.
In Good condition, no dust jacket. White illustrated paper over boards, front with title and a multicolored dot-matrix panel. Two half-inch bumps with some tearing to paper along fore-edge of front cover near bottom. Light overall surface and edge wear with some soiling to covers. Lime green endpapers. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Catalogue of the Singapore Art Museum's survey of young Singapore contemporary artists, 26 artists and 34 works, curated by Khairuddin Hori and David Chew. Four essays on Singapore art since the late 1980s, then a spread for each artist with a reproduction of the work and a short text. Charles Lim's Inside Outside (2005), labeled Sea State 1, belongs to the SEA STATE project he showed at the Singapore Pavilion of the 2015 Venice Biennale; Robert Zhao Renhui represented Singapore at Venice in 2024. Foreword by SAM director Tan Boon Hui. Contents: Foreword by Tan Boon Hui; Performing the Contemporary by Khairuddin Hori; The Slow Burn by Tan Boon Hui; There's No Place Like Home by David Chew; When Marginality Becomes Legitimacy by Zaki Razak; Artworks; Acknowledgements. Artists: Ang Sookoon; Angela Chong; Genevieve Chua; Chun Kaifeng; Clog 2; Gerald Leow; Charles Lim; Lynn Lu; Mojoko and Eric Foenander; Dawn Ng; Francis Ng; Donna Ong; Ruben Pang; :phunk studio and Keiichi Tanaami; Rizman Putra; Bruce Quek; Ryf; Shah Rizzal; Speak Cryptic; Grace Tan and Randy Chan; Melissa Tan; Vertical Submarine; Andree Weschler; Joel Yuen; Robert Zhao.