Bank Art Fair 2015

This was held from from 20th to 22nd November 2015. It is the 3rd Edition of the Bank Art Fair but was the 2nd time it was held in Singapore.

Last year it was held concurrently with AAF and the attendance might not have been good so it's held a week after that this year. But don't think attendance was great either as they were offering free entry from 1pm to 3pm. And even went on to offer free entry for Sunday/ the last day. And I don't think 33 Auction happening on 21st and Borobudur Auction on Sunday had any impact on the fair either.

So you can guess which day I went. LOL.

Anyway, I think Bank Art Fair is by the Koreans, hence there was a larger contingent of South Korean galleries.

There were some interesting pieces and artists. But the feel that Pizza Queen and I got was that there was too many commercial art and not really Fine Art. Even if there were some big names, the works weren't the best either. Saw Fan Shao Hua and Hong Sek Chern's works there, but these were previously shown and unsold.

Things that stood out:
Instinc's room as usual showed good works. Valerie Ng presented some nice drawings which is a depature from her usual abstract works. Eunice showed very nice small format paintings along the line of her Catharsis series.

Define Art Gallery. Danya Yu presented some paintings. She had three smaller format paintings which were more detailed and different from her more loose and expressive strokes. Very different and I would say very good.

There was also a good Korean artist Park Joo Hee, can't remember which gallery but presented good works.

Park Joo Hee's Name Card

Park Joo Hee

Danya Yu (not including the top row left most piece)

Danya Yu (not including the bottom right work)

Danya Yu - interesting small triptych

Valerie Ng's drawings

Instinc's room

Valerie Ng

Points for collectors: If you haven't any spare time, I wouldn't bother to attend. If I had to pay money I wouldn't attend either. Unless you are eyeing a specific artist who will be presenting his/her works there. As this fair is a different format with a different audience and a different price range, the works will be much different. And some of the artists will be willing to experiment as the fair isn't too important a platform, then you will be able to get fresh and interesting works by them. Not often, but you have to do your leg work to get great pieces.