Coin Telephone - Black (2014) . . . . . . . . . . . . . Coin Telephone - Red (2014)
oil on canvas 61cm x 31cm each S$2800 each

When was the last time you saw a coin phone, or even a card phone? Isn't it amazing that once-ubiquitous objects like these are rapidly being consigned to the pages of history, to be commemorated by nostalgic artists?

Honoured clients,
It's the last day of Art Apart Fair at Parkroyal on Pickering! Come and enjoy the great variety of works with a Philippine focus this year in a cool, hip and green hotel where the 14th floor is converted to an art arcade, with each room containing one gallery! As for Utterly Art, visit us at the end of one corridor in Room 1410.

As National Day rehearsals are flying overhead amidst night flash fireworks, we ourselves are pivoting to Singapore, and this mail illustrates the Made in Singapore series of Leo Liu Xuanqi. Images of objects and goods of Singapore manufacture immediately take on an iconic status when enlarged and celebrated as single subjects on canvas. Such images trigger feelings of fondness and familiarity when we are confronted with reminders of our fading past.

Remember Ayam Brand? And that they bottled up Singapore goodness in the form of curry rempah?

Born in China 1977, Liu Xuan Qi graduated from the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology press printing and Institute of art and design, in 1999. He moved to Singapore in 2006.

With his background as a graphic designer, he explores elements from traditional Chinese ink paintings, icons and imagery from eastern cultures and fuses them with contemporary design, merging the east and west. He adopted a different artistic expression by exploring the art with his personal style touch of traditional media and design element of eastern meet western culture.

Liu Xuan Qi’s works have been exhibited and well-received in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and the United States. He has received various awards, such as the 2012 Platinum Award from the United Overseas Bank Painting-Of-The-Year Competition, Singapore and was selected as a finalist in the Dr. Tan Tsze Chor Art Award, Singapore, for years 2012 and 2014.

Various medicated oils are also part of our visual, and yes, olfactory heritage! Whether they linger depends on whether we will continue rubbing on our children what our parents rubbed on us :)

Queries and reservations for the above works to me at 94872006 (Keng Hock). It's the last ever day to visit the 6th edition of Art Apart Fair @ Parkroyal on Pickering TODAY Sunday, 11.30am to 9pm! Much of Utterly Art's Philippine stock is also on loan to Art Apart Fair in the Presidential Suite and two adjoining rooms, so this is a GOOD chance to see them displayed without having to dig through the crowded shelves of our Chinatown gallery.

Get free entry by filling up the form provided in this link: http://goo.gl/forms/ZBIfM7JzGf and you will be placed on the special RSVP list at the door! In addition, you can forward this link to your family and friends. However, only ONE response for TWO guests is allowed for each e-mail address.

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