The exhibition is headlined by Milenko Prvacki who hand picked some of his best students. Luke Heng, Jeremy Sharma, Filip Gudovic and Hilmi Johandi.
Milenko Prvacki presented some works which was in his typical/ recognisable stye and all were recent works painted in 2014. This included paintings from a series Unsent Letters.
Hilmi Johandi presented two paintings from his 'painting cinema' series and a video art. This work is in the same vein as his current body of works and were excellent. But the subject matter may not resonate with everyone. I suspect that due to his prior commitment with Galerie Steph in 9 days time, he only showed 2 works.
Filip Gudovic showed 7 pieces. 3 big pieces and 4 smaller pieces. His 4 smaller pieces were excellent, in fact a few people have likened his work to Ian Woo's. (Maybe because of the choice of colour palette.) His 3 larger pieces were nice. Yes, nice and safe. He can do much better, here. I think because of the type of gallery he is presenting at, the pieces he submitted or that were selected by the curator were very safe and more commercially viable. That's my opinion and how I feel. Just take a look at what he submitted at a concurrent exhibition, 'King for a Day' at Equator Arts Project, that piece was much better I feel.
Filip Gudovic's Yellow Flag
Luke Heng presented 8 paintings from a new body of work. The naming of the works were an alphabet followed by a number. The alphabet represents the first layer of paint and the number represents the number of layers of paint above that. The two best pieces of the 8 were b/28 and p/48 and both were sold too. The b/28 was featured in the Businesstimes article. It was a nice yellow colour worked up from the blue base. The appealing thing of the painting was the colour and the linear vertical lines which added structure and weight to the painting. Further, there was a door/ gate effect as the centre of the painting had more red then the perimeter frame, so this painting gave you a feel of Rothko's visual field painting. p/48 was equally excellent but in a different way. Through the 48 layers of paint over the purple(red/blue) to form a mainly red painting, you can see what the painter was thinking and trying to do with the colours. Working up the layers till he was satisfied. This painting also featured some gloss painting (unlike b/28) and more pouring and spreading of paint. No linear lines here. And because of the gloss the painting had much more dynamism and depth to it, even from different angles and distances. This painting was the first to catch Pizza Queen's trained eye, because for visual field paintings it is 'slow art' and you have to take your time, only with experience and training are you able to read slow art fast. Otherwise you'll be attracted to the superficially pretty piece which loses its appeal over time.
Luke Heng's p/48
Jeremy Sharma showed more of the 'Grey Paintings' which he first showed in 2011 at the Institute of Contemporary Arts and which he is also now showing at Galerie Michael Janssen. Here he had a part of tall ones which were sold and a couple of smaller ones for the 'lower level' collectors who wish to get an example of his series.
So from the paragraphs written, you can infer that you should go over mainly to check out Luke's work which I think is a brilliant progression from when he last showed at Quiet Mystics- Galerie Steph. Milenko's works were great too and I needn't have to say anything about it. Look at the smaller Filip Gudovic work and imagine them bigger, that's whats he's really capable of.
Online exhibtion catalogue.
Points for collectors: Go check out these emerging artists and consider getting their works to support them as they are most likely here to stay. Milenko and Helina Chan can't be very wrong.
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