Credit Suisse: Innovation In Art Series
The Collectors Show: Weight of History

25 January 2013 to 5 May 2013, Singapore Art Museum

Vertical Submarine, Sun Tzu’s Art of War (Part of Arm Chair Philosophy), 2010, Mixed Media

The Collectors Show is one of the most anticipated shows on the arts calendar and continues to present compelling contemporary artworks from private collections in Asia. Defying conventional expectations of private art collections as being merely showpieces to be hung on walls, this edition features a spectrum of more than 20 works that show how artists perceive, and re-conceive the multiple facets of history in the Asia-Pacific region. Curated and independently organised by SAM, Weight of History examines how artists engage with, and evaluate, local traditions and culture, translating them into masterpieces which display the interconnected relationship between past and present in our increasingly globalised societies. (From Singapore Art Museum website)