去世20年首次遗作展谢玉谦——不该忘记的画家

去世近20年的画家谢玉谦,今天的新加坡人似乎很陌生,但这是一个不该忘记的名字,他曾为新马美术做出杰出贡献,也留下大批作品。从谢玉谦的首个遗作展,我们可以看到画家饱满的创作激情和精彩的艺术表现…
谢玉谦的关心民间疾苦，还因他在生命晚期，有过三次住院纪录。结果，他不但没有好好静养，还带去画具、颜料，伺机刻画医院的医生、护士、病人众生相，不遗余力。甚至连“闲人止步”的手术室，也留有他的作品。这批题材特殊的画作，共有31幅，目前正在本地展出…

谢玉谦的作品，强调地方色彩，题材贴近市井小民的生活，他本人也非常“草根”。他的名言是：“如果画家的作品，人们看不懂，这种画是没有价值的。艺术家的创作，应该反映现实，反映时代和民生。” 艺术见解方面，谢玉谦还说过：“‘美’这个字眼，给人很抽象的感觉，对艺术而言，并不是那些吸引人的东西才叫美，其实彩色艳丽不一定就美，相反，一些不美的东西和事情，甚至古旧和丑陋的，在艺术家眼中也是美的。而有时候，内在美更为重要，缺乏内在美，无论外在如何美观，也要大打折扣。”

谢玉谦遗作展，展出油画、粉彩和速写作品84件，作品包括从50年代学生时期的《静物》到90年代的另一幅《静物》。

节录自 联合早报- 2009年12月8日

Exhibition Details 画展资料

Date & Time: Opening: Thursday, 12 November, 6.30pm
Exhibition: 13 November – 27 December, 11am to 7pm daily (closed on Mondays and public holidays)

Venue: 南艺 Lim Hak Tai Gallery, NAFA Campus 1,
80 Bencoolen Street, S(189655)
For enquiries: Mr Justin Loke at 65 6512 4044 or
email: artgalleries@nafa.edu.sg

" Yu Chian In Nanyang " Art Exhibition ( Video ) Opening Speech part 2 of 2

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"Yu Chian In Nanyang" Art Exhibition ( Video )

" Yu Chian In Nanyang " Art Exhibition ( Slide Show ) 13 NOV-27 DEC 2009 NAFA, Singapore

Chia Yu Chian : Still Life With Wine Jugs 1967

Chia Yu Chian had studied at the Ecoles des Beaux Arts art academy in Paris during the late 1950s and was a prolific artist throughout his life. Still life painting was one of his fortes and this particular work, revealing syncretic qualities incorporating Western and Chinese influences, is indeed a most accomplished work. The flat empty, pale blue background on which the table exists, reminds us of a traditional Chinese painting devise emphasising the empty void. It heightens, in this case, figure/ground relationships. The aerial perspective view of the tilted table top with its placement of things, which include a fish, a crab and lemons plus the two wine jugs placed on the floor, has allowed for a suggestion of airiness and weightlessness. The forces of gravity have been considerably reduced as is the case in traditional Chinese still life paintings. One half expects the fish and the crab to slide downwards. The rich, painterly treatment of the oil medium is however expressive, modernist and Western. This is clearly a painting about the subtle formal synthesis of differing cultural values, influences and sensibilities. . .

Extract from "Masterpieces from the National Art Gallery of Malaysia" ~Redza Piyadasa

Still Life With Wine Jugs 1967, 76cm x 58cm, Oil on Board

Period of Parisian School

Norfolk 1960, 24cm x 36cm, ink on paper

Paris Street Scene 1959, 18cm x 28cm, ink on paper

The Red Hart Inn 2 Bodham-England 1960, 21cm x 35cm, ink on paper

Moulin Rouge 1959, 24cm x 33cm, ink on paper

The Red Hart Inn 1 Bodham-England 1959, 18cm x 26cm, ink on paper

Parisienne 1960, 70cm x 51.5cm, Oil on board

This superb portrait of a woman in a Paris café exemplifies the romance that this artistic “centre of the world” must have held for the Malayan student, and is a rare instance of such a candid gaze at a European subject.