Seeing, feeling, being: Alberto Giacometti
Dialogue with audience, Conversation with Curator and Exhibition, Singapore Art Museum, 2008
Dawn
Solo Exhibition, Art-2 Gallery, 2002 I encounter thirty-six tiny babies in the incubation site that is Victor Tan’s studio. Their movements are curious and playful, soft and natural. That they are made of wire is perhaps even more curious, and I cannot decide whether to examine the sculptor’s motive behind these dedicated pieces, or to […]
Between 2 and 3
Solo Exhibition, Gallery Everson Hotel, 2001 When confronted with a wire sculpture of Victor Tan Wee Tar’s, one is invariably drawn to handling the figure and marveling at the intricate handiwork that has gone into its synthesis. The medium of stainless steel wire, especially when used for figuration, is Victor’s own in Singapore, innovated as […]