Heman Chong’s installation for the three-person show in the Singapore Pavilion at the 2003 Venice Biennale, Murmurmurmurmurmur (2003), engulfed visitors to the baroque Palazzo Giustinian Lolin in a disorienting red glow emanating from rows of neon tubes arranged on the floor in one corner of the gallery. The other half of the space was taken up by... [more]

Anish Kapoor: The Fiction of Auto-Generation
By Sandhini Poddar

Since the early 1980s, Anish Kapoor’s investigation into notions of scale, volume, color and materiality has redefined contemporary sculpture. From the piles of pigment in his early works to the monumental building-embracing sculptures and installations for which the artist is now known, his focus has always remained on investigating the interaction between... [more]

An-My Le: Theater of Observation
By HG Masters

Clouds of white smoke rise from an arid landscape of large stones and scraggy bushes. Partially covered hills behind the plumes resemble oversized sand piles, and in the foreground of the photograph, a small formation of barrels is spray-painted with the letters... [more]