Art Plural Gallery is an art gallery in

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. It has been called one of the ten best contemporary art galleries in SingaporeEllen Von Wiegand. ( .d.br>Art in the Lion City: The Ten Best Contemporary Art Galleries in Singapore
. Theculturetrip.com. Accessed October 2013. and in 2013 was named as one of the world's best new galleries.Culture Stop: World's Best New Galleries and Museums
ArtInfo, 8 July 2013. Accessed October 2013.

History

The gallery was founded in 2011 by a Swiss art dealer, Frédéric de Senarclens. It occupies in a historic

Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French ''Arts Décoratifs'', and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the Unit ...

building on Armenian Street, in the cultural district of

.Jane A. Peterson (9 June 2011)
Singapore Adds to Its Art Scene
The Wall Street Journal: Scene Asia. Accessed October 2013.Jane A. Peterson (4 October 2013)

''Financial Times'' (London). Accessed 13 November 2013. It opened on 3 June 2011 with "Avant Première", which included works by Marc Quinn,

Fernando Botero Fernando Botero Angulo (born 19 April 1932) is a Colombian figurative artist and sculptor, born in Medellín. His signature style, also known as "Boterismo", depicts people and figures in large, exaggerated volume, which can represent politic ...

, Fabienne Verdier,

Bernar Venet Bernar Venet (born 20 April 1941) is a French conceptual artist. Early life Bernar Venet was born to Jean-Marie Venet, a school teacher and chemist, and Adeline Gilly and was the youngest of four boys. He was brought up in Château-Arnoux-Sai ...

and Shirin Neshat. Artists who have exhibited at the gallery include Pablo Reinoso, Ian Davenport, Bernar Venet, Shirin Neshat, Fabienne Verdier, Chun Kwang Young and Qiu Jie. In early 2012 the gallery started its Emerging Artists programme to promote the work of promising artists at an early stage of their career. The programme offers the selected artist a first solo show in the gallery. Siddhartha Tawadey was the first artist to exhibit under this programme. .n.(12 September 2012)
Indian Photographer Siddhartha Tawadey Inaugurates Art Plural Gallery’s Emerging Artist Programme
Art Radar Asia. Accessed October 2013. By 2013 about 35% of the clients of the gallery were from

; some overseas clients visit the gallery. About 25% of sales are made online.

Publications

Catalogues published by the gallery include:"Art Plural Gallery"
OCLC WorldCat. Accessed January 2015. * Olivia Ludlow (2011). ''Regards Croisés: A Selection of Asian Contemporary Art''. * Henri-François Debailleux (2012). ''Pablo Reinoso: Scribbling Power''. * Joséphine Matamoros (2012). ''Tom Carr: Visualisation de la pensée''. Barcelona: Comanegra; Singapore: Art Plural Gallery. * Michael Stanley (2012). ''Ian Davenport: Between the Lines''. * Caroline Ward (2013). ''Chun Kwang Young''. *

Michael Peppiatt Michael Henry Peppiatt (born 9 October 1941) is an English art historian, curator and writer. Biography Son of Edward George Peppiatt (died 1983), B.Sc, ARCS, of Silver Birches, Stocking Pelham, near Buntingford, Hertfordshire, technical and ...

, Jane A Peterson (2014). ''Art Plural: Voices of Contemporary Art''. Singapore: Gatehouse.

References

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