Young Talent Programme 2013/2014 AAF in collaboration with Ion Art

This exhibition  allows the winners of last year's award to feature their work. I think the panel of judges include Benjamin Hampe and Boo Sze Yang. It goes on from 5th September to 23rd September 2014 at Ion Art Gallery.

The award is run yearly by the Affordable Art Fair group in collaboration with Ion Art.

The three winners are Hilmi Johandi, Lennard Ong and Noor Iskandar.

Hilmi Johandi presented a rather large triptych (painting) and multiple video displays. He's working on a new body of work "Framing Camellia : Fragmentation of Frames." The work, visually, is in the same vein as his cinema series, and viewers read the sequence from left to right. Good work. The balance of the painting is good and the control of the viewer/sequence of reading of the painting is excellent.

Lennard Ong is doing a study of form/shape, Filament Forest. He extrudes a white resin like thingy via a suspended apparatus.The white resin stuff hardens and takes the shape/form. He then juxtaposes the white 'filaments' against tree barks. Conceptually interesting but not quite perceptually pleasing.

Noor Iskandar presented Paradie. This consisted of a scroll of cloth running from the far wall to the floor, with words on the section on the wall and words at the end of the scroll. Read the writings, not impressed. On the far wall on either side of the start of the head of the scroll are a grid of frames of small fuji instax polaroid- size, empty polaroid photo frames. On these are written various things about how one wanted to die, and perceptions of heaven. On either of the two flanking walls are digital prints of images worked on with 'photoshop'. Interesting. But I am more traditional and thought this would be good if it were painted rather than just worked on digitally. For Digital art if you have the know how and the eye, the results can be achieved. For paintings, you need the eye and hand.

Good young talents. Good Panelist of Judges.

Points for Collectors: Hilmi is a good young talent to watch.