Lehmann Maupin returns to Singapore for the third edition of Art SG with a presentation that foregrounds the gallery’s Asian artists alongside artists from its global roster. The gallery will present a focused selection of work dedicated to artists from the Asian region and diaspora, including Mandy El-Sayegh, Lee Bul, Tammy Nguyen, and Kim Yun Shin. Concurrent to the fair, Lee Bul's commissioned facade sculptures, titled Long Tail Halo, are on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. In 2025, Tammy Nguyen and Kim Yun Shin will have debut solo exhibitions at Lehmann Maupin, in New York and London, respectively. Kim will also have a major solo exhibition at Lehmann Maupin New York, opening spring 2025.
Additional highlights include works by Loriel Beltrán, McArthur Binion, Billy Chidish, Teresita Fernández, Todd Gray, Chantal Joffe, Tony Oursler, Alex Prager, David Salle, Nari Ward, and Erwin Wurm. On the heels of the fair, Todd Gray’s debut solo exhibition with Lehmann Maupin in New York will be on view from January 23–March 22, 2025.
At the fair, Mandy El-Sayegh will present a group of new paintings that build on El-Sayegh’s long-running process of combining found materials from her collected archive to create densely layered compositions. The new paintings relate to her ongoing Piece Painting and Net-Grid series, which combine collaged and screen-printed fragments. In the Net-Grid series, these fragments are overlaid with grids, creating an illusion of unity that functions to simultaneously contain and obscure information. The grounds of these new works are composed from ephemera produced within a specific moment in time—October 2024. For El-Sayegh, this period marked a year of extreme violence in the Middle East, as well as the run-up to the American elections; in London, where El-Sayegh is based, the Frieze art fair was taking place. These contrasting realities created a very disjunctive moment, recorded in the new paintings. The components of each work are assembled in a Mondrian-esque grid format—a Minimalist gesture which, in El-Sayegh’s hands, becomes oversaturated and overstuffed with information, advertising, and media. Indebted to Pop Art and the readymade, the paintings are pseudo-archives, embedding historical ephemera within recognisable art tropes. On Friday, January 17 at 3:30 PM, El-Sayegh will be in conversation with curator Zoe Butt, hosted at Art SG’s Talks Theater.
A new work from Korean artist Lee Bul’s acclaimed Perdu series will debut at the fair. Composed of multi-layered organic and inorganic materials like mother of pearl and acrylic paint, Perdu CCIII (2024) depicts an otherworldly and fragmented cyborg-like body, its parts suspended in space at various distances and in differing detail. This undefined form emerges from the picture plane as if proliferating or expanding, inhabiting a liminal space between biology and technology. In this way, the artist’s Perdu works gesture towards a yearning for completeness, posing potential processes for achieving such a state. Concurrent to the fair, Lee Bul’s Genesis Façade Commission at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, titled Long Tail Halo, is on view through May 25, 2025.
In Tammy Nguyen’s new multimedia painting Pious Woman from the Rainbow (2024), literary narrative serves as a metaphor for geopolitical theater. Nguyen’s multidisciplinary practice is highly research-driven, exploring the intersections between geopolitics, ecology, and history, using narrative to intertwine disparate subjects through artmaking. Across her mediums, Nguyen’s work aims to unsettle, and the tension between her elegant forms and harmonious aesthetics often belies the nature of her storytelling. She probes this contrast between form and content by confusing the visual plane, working with watercolor and vinyl paint and repeatedly obscuring and revealing her subjects to build friction. The artist’s debut solo exhibition with Lehmann Maupin in New York, Paradiso, will open in June 2025, concluding a three-part exhibition series based on Dante’s Divine Comedy.
A selection of sculpture and painting from the early 2000s to the present by Kim Yun Shin probes the fundamental qualities of materials and nature, navigating themes of confrontation, introspection, and coexistence. Kim uses solid wood as her primary sculptural medium, visualizing the intersection between nature, time, and history to reconsider the very essence of human existence. Her paintings are marked by distinctive surface fragmentation; across her compositions, large sections gradually divide into smaller shapes. The resulting artworks evoke a primordial energy, at once expansive and concise, concentrated and diffused. Kim’s debut solo exhibition in the United Kingdom will open at Lehmann Maupin in London in February, with a major solo exhibition in New York to follow, opening spring 2025.
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