FROM THE GROUND UP @ GLOCAL CONNECT VILLAGE Art Gallery - Temasek Polytechnic (May 28-June 25)

FROM THE GROUND UP Show launches Wednesday, May 28th (7pm) @ GLOCAL CONNECT VILLAGE Art Gallery - presented by centre for transcultural studies and Clogtwo, Inkten & FREAKYFir. Exhibiting thru June 25th, 2014, you can find out more about the show via the Facebook Event Page (WIP/set up pics here via).

FROM THE GROUND UP: "Should the “Art in the Streets” be folded into the grand narrative of art history? At what price of sanitizing and stepping down for a good fit in museums and galleries? Rhetorical.

Street art IS the new paradigm where artists consider the urban landscape as their necessary working environment and in practice a language of their own, with learned codes, rules, hierarchy of prestige and means of communication. It can be a multidisciplinary platform where street culture intersects with traditional art form, initiating compelling improvisations and identities in the contemporary visual culture. Whether utopian or anarchic, aggressive or sympathetic, original or derivative, street artists work with a deep identification and empathy with the surroundings, using irony, humor, beauty, clever prank, critique to reveal their thoughts and emotions.

It is simply beautiful, making the invisible visible, the city re-imaged and re-imagined."

GLOCAL CONNECT VILLAGE Art Gallery, west gate
Temasek polytechnic
21, Tampines Avenue 1
S529757