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Life-long rebel who found an artistic cause |
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China
ARTIST Shi Qi's birth was accompanied by tragedy. His family was too poor to feed another mouth, so his grandmother decided to sacrifice her own life for the new born, wrapping herself in a quilt and setting herself on fire.
Such traumatic beginnings perhaps explain why Shi has always been something a rebel in the art world, always determined to do things in his own way.
Organized by Shanghai Art Museum and Wanda Group, a solo exhibition of Shi is running at Shanghai Art Museum through May 13.
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 Indonesia
Agus Suwage is exhibiting his latest artwork. He still uses the idiom of skin and bones and Mother Mary.
Piles of beer bottles almost touch the ceiling of the room. A Monument Safeguarding National Defense and Security. So was the title of Agus Suwage's installation which was the one and only artwork displayed on the second floor of the exhibition hall of the Nadi Gallery in the Puri Indah housing complex, West Jakarta.
The other four works are on the first floor, however, the bottle monument is the most impressive.
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Theatre review: Shakespeare In The Park: Twelfth Night |
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A love triangle goes around in a gorgeous circle
After last year's successful flirtation with the dark side courtesy of Macbeth, Singapore Repertory Theatre returns once more to the breezy vibe of previous Shakespeare comedies that has made its now-annual Fort Canning Park offering such a hit.
Consistently top-notch stage sets have always been one of the major draws throughout the Shakespeare In The Park series. With Twelfth Night, they've taken it up a notch or two - with a yacht, a bar, lots of sand, a facade of a classic Italian villa and, through some seductive video visuals, the sea. Production designer Robin Don's sloping circular platform is one of the most gorgeous sets we've ever seen. For the briefest of moments, we even recalled Michelangelo Antonioni's classic '60s film L'Avventura.
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The root and fruit of love |
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 Thailand
A subversive re-imagining of King Lear traces the rise and fall of a kingdom
As much of Thailand's classical trove consists of creations from the court, it comes as no surprise that kings in Thai literature are mostly portrayed as exquisite, god-like beings _ the epitome of goodness and wisdom. Some contemporary Thai artists like to mine the canon to create works for the purpose of teaching the accepted set of morals and ethics, rather than to question them.
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