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'50 Years: In Progress' Exhibition
Location: Exhibition Hall, School of Design and Environment, Level
1, SDE 3, National University of Singapore
Dates: 16 Jan 09 7 Apr 09
Opening Hours:
Tues - Fri: 12 pm - 8 pm;
Sat - Sun: 11 am - 5 pm.
Mon & Public holidays
closed.
10,000 ARCHIVAL PHOTOGRAPHS, 50 YEARS OF DRAWINGS, MODELS, DRAWING
EQUIPMENT COLLECTED FROM ALUMNI AND STAFF WILL BE ON SHOW AT THIS
EXHIBITION. THE INVALUABLE ITEMS THAT ARE BEING COLLECTED FOR THE
EXHIBITION REFLECT THE RICH HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE EDUCATION AND
PRACTICE OVER THE PAST FIVE DECADES. THERE WILL ALSO BE A SPECIALLY
DESIGNED MEMORABILIA AVAILABLE, AS WELL AS A SPEICAL PREVIEW AND
CHARITY SALE OF THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATIVE BOOK, WHOSE
PROCEEDS WILL GO INTO THE STUDENTS FUNDS.
Constructed Landscapes: Singapore in Southeast Asia
23 December 2008 till December 2009
at the
University Art Museum
Cheong Soo Pieng
St. Andrew's Cathedral, 1955
Oil on Board
The
University Art Museum (precursor of NUS Museum) was
inaugurated in 1955 at the University of Malaya in Singapore. The
collection was instrumental in the teaching and study of Art
History. Its holding of acquired paintings served as a vital archive
and resource to interpret landscapes and themes in Singapore and
Southeast Asia.
Presented in three sections - Engagement/Memory/Imagination - the
exhibition explores artistic interactions with the land, personal
and collective memory, as well as relationships with physical space,
cultural imagination and practice. Through paintings, drawings,
photographs, textiles and video documentations, the landscape
observations convey, construct and represent aspects of such
landscapes, as well as offer presentations and interpretations.
The exhibition forms the framework for reconnections with teaching
and learning of architecture and urban history, through modules
developed by the Department of Architecture, NUS, which celebrates
its 50th anniversary this year. In conjunction with the exhibition,
two forums will be organised at the NUS Museum alongside four
walking tours at Kampong Glam, Padang, Telok Ayer and Tiong Bahru to
encourage the public's interest in and appreciation of the
Singaporean landscape.
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