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Tuesday, July 05, 2005
Journeys Revisited - A Goh Beng Kwan Retrospective Exhibition

UOB is proud to present Journeys Revisited – A Goh Beng Kwan Retrospective Exhibition.

Pop by Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Gallery 2 from 5 to 15 Jul 2005 (10am to 8pm) to catch a glimpse of this collection of some of Goh's finest works.


• Date:
5 to 15 Jul 2005

• Time:
10am to 8pm

• Venue:
Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Gallery 2
80 Bencoolen Street


As the first UOB Painting of the Year Competition winner in 1982, Goh Beng Kwan has been an integral part of UOB's art journey. Twenty-three years later, the Bank is proud to partner him once again in presenting his retrospective solo exhibition – a tribute to his enormous talent and dedication as an artist, and a testament to UOB's appreciation and support for the arts.

Goh Beng Kwan's artistic career spans over five decades of practice. Since his early years as a young student, he was influenced by the Pioneer Artists and imbibed the regionalism of the Nanyang Style. Later, during his years in New York, American Abstract Expressionism left a deep impression on his approach to art-making. These experiences have contributed to Goh's course of stylistic development that has positioned him as one of the leading exponents of abstraction among second generation artists in Singapore. Best known for his signature style in collage work, Goh has established a unique approach in abstract composition with surface translucency and tonal play, coupled with an evocative sense of the local and an inspired consciousness of regional cultures and colours.

A consistent theme over the span of Goh's practice is his interest in travelling to explore and experience the sights and tastes of regional cultures, thereby to draw inspiration. His collages are not simply an erudite play of abstract compositions. His intuitive choice of materials, including the pieces of found objects he imbeds and layers in the two dimensional surfaces of his paintings, raises to fore a curiosity and longing for his own cultural identity and Asian heritage.

Goh's oeuvre includes works in the ink tradition. Though less well known than his practice in collage, Goh has built up a significant body of ink paintings over the last two decades.

Journeys Revisited is a retrospective exhibition that surveys Goh's practice over a span of fifty years. The exhibition invites ideas of travel and artistic trajectories, evoking a sense of time, and of encounters and experiences. These ideas are intended to bring out and highlight major oeuvres and inspirational sources in Goh's developments over the course of his artistic career.


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