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New pop-up showcase to help galleries affected by Art Stage Singapore cancellation
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Last post: A preview of The Sound of Silence, an interactive installation by Helene Le Chatelier & Pang, posted on Art Stage Singapore’s Facebook page on Nov. 19, 2018. It was the last post on the Facebook page promoting what would have been the ninth edition of the contemporary art fair. (Facebook/Art Stage/-)
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new pop-up showcase called The ARTery has been set up to display works from exhibitors left stranded by the sudden cancellation of Art Stage Singapore - the country's main contemporary art fair.
Organized by non-profit group Art Outreach with help from the National Arts Council (NAC), Singapore Tourism Board (STB) and the Economic Development Board (EDB), the event will run at a hall in the Marina Bay Sands Expo & Convention Centre from Jan 24 to 27.
Art Stage Singapore was supposed to have run during the same period in what would have been its ninth edition. However, organizers cancelled it on Wednesday (Jan 16), just nine days before its public opening, citing poor local sales and "unequal competition".
According to the Art Stage website, more than half of the fair's 45 exhibitors were from overseas.
Read also: Art Stage canceled to chagrin of galleries, critics, artists
Since then, exhibitors have been left in a state of limbo, with some seeking alternative exhibition spaces as galleries, artists, commercial entities and even homeowners stepped forward in a groundswell of support - some even offering their spaces for free.
Over at The ARTery, each exhibitor will have to pay a nominal fee of $2,000 for a 30 sq m booth which will come with standard entitlements.
The pop-up showcase is supported by Marina Bay Sands, with help from NAC, STB and EDB - the three agencies have backed Art Stage Singapore since its first edition in 2011.
A Singapore Art Week shuttle bus moving between Marina Bay Sands, National Gallery Singapore and Gillman Barracks will be available at selected times between Jan 25 and 27.
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Where: Hall A, Marina Sands Expo & Convention Centre, 10 Bayfront Avenue
When: Jan 24 to 27, 11am to 7pm daily
Admission: Free
Info: http://facebook.com/theARTerySG or e-mail theartery@artoutreachsingapore.org
This article appeared on The Straits Times newspaper website, which is a member of Asia News Network and a media partner of The Jakarta Post
