A Massive Show that is Managing
By Ooi Kok Chuen
March 2016 PENANG PALETTE
The Sixth Art Stage Singapore was an event suited to its time, but these are bleak times.The Sixth Art Stage Singapore (AS6) ended on January 24, 2016 (vernissage January 20) with mixed signals: the hoopla of Singapore’s Golden Jubilee celebrations muted by ill winds from China’s economic deceleration; declining footfalls (40,500 compared to last year’s 51,000 visitors); and the absence of several marque galleries which was compensated for by a mini-invasion of at least two dozen Japanese galleries!Zhang Yi Fa's...
Ooi Kok Chuen
is an art-writer and journalist, and the author of MAHSURI: A Legend Reborn (Ooi Peeps Publishing), an adult contemporary fantasy “movel” (a novel conceived as a mock movie) spun from a local legend.
