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May was a busy and exciting month at Sin Sin Fine Art with the show at our booth in ARTHK12 and the Earthly Evocations group show at Sai Street. Read on to find out more!
On 17th of May, Sin Sin Fine Art proudly opened Earthly Evocations: Indonesian Art Now, an exciting, specially curated group exhibition of performances, installations, sculptures and paintings by leading and emerging Indonesian contemporary artists, including Jumaldi Alfi, Hanafi, Kokok P. Sancoko, Lie Fhung, M. Irfan, Nasirun, Pande Ketut Taman, Putu Sutawijaya, S. Teddy D., Tisna Sanjaya, and the venerable émigré artist Arie Smit, whose work has rarely been exhibited in Hong Kong. Each of these dynamic artists represents special strengths and characteristics of the Indonesian contemporary art scene, and their coming together in a group exhibition constitutes a rare and celebratory event in Hong Kong. To celebrate this special occasion, Sin Sin Man is showing her wearable art series as a Guest Artist, featuring unique hand-painted batik on cotton works.
The Earthly Evocations: Indonesian Art Now, which is co-curated by Valerie C. Doran & Sin Sin Man, is held in all three spaces: the gallery spaces at 53 and 54 Sai Street, plus the atelier space at 52 Sai Street. Yes, we have transformed the Atelier into a 2-story gallery space filled with amazing works of art!
The event begun with a VIP Preview at 11:30 am when friends and customers of Sin Sin Fine Art started to arrive at Sai Street. The fun continued on at the Opening Night when so many art-lovers from all over the world filling in the gallery spaces and the street space in between - from Asia to Australia, to USA and Europe. At some point, it felt like the Who's Who List of Indonesian contemporary art world were there: from the participating artists, to other Indonesian artists such as Agus Suwage, Rudi Mantofani and Yuli Prayitno, and curators like Enin Supriyanto and Rifky Effendi, and gallery owners such as Biantoro of Nadi Gallery, Edwin Rahardjo of Edwin's Gallery, Deddy Irianto of Langgeng Gallery and many more. So much positive energies flowed that evening!
We are honored that the Indonesian Vice Consul officiated the show by pouring water onto a little paddy field especially prepared for the ceremony as a symbol of nurturing support to the Indonesian art development. The highlight of the evening was the performance by renown artist-activist Tisna Sanjaya which was so moving. He got the audience to participate, being a part of his performance. We are very grateful for this rare opportunity to present and to experience such a meaningful art performance here in Hong Kong.
Finally, we would like to thank Komaneka Gallery and Neka Museum for their support and collaboration in bringing out Indonesian art to the international audience. We would also like to thank Garuda Indonesia and The Indonesian Consulate in Hong Kong for their support.
Sin Sin Fine Art was proud to present a special solo exhibition of Jumaldi Alfi’s work at ARTHK12, curated in collaboration with the artist himself.
We are happy to share that our participation at the ARTHK12 was successful with many interesting people visited our booth, which many has complimented as one of the most wonderful spaces in the art fair. We are also excited with new possibilities and opportunities brought about by this and are looking forward to explore them further.
Sin Sin Fine Art is pleased to present a photography exhibition, Agoraphobia by Alfred Ko. It is a series of portraits of public space, or space abandoned by the public. While the agora is commonly known as an open space used for markets and public meetings in ancient Greece, Agoraphobia addresses not ancient history, but the oblivion of history as that which makes us human. Ko has been contemplating on the way built environments become oppressive forces that break up social fabrics over the past ten years. Select works from his first ever color series Claustrophobia featured in this exhibition reveal how ill-favored colors of our consumerist society are blinding. From condemning congestion and decay, Ko moves on to evocation. Agoraphobia is the flip side of colorful lives emptied out of values. It confronts the deliberate policies and systems of power that constitute the void. The portraits are the remains of the purges.
At the same time, Alfred Ko will be launching the book "HongKong/China Photographer Series 7" - published by Asia One.
Sin Sin Atelier is excited to host a One Day Pre Summer Holiday Specials on Thu, 14 June 2012 when many gorgeous items in the Atelier will be available at special pricing up to 80% Off Discount. This is the perfect opportunity to pamper yourself and to stock up on exquisite gifts for your loved ones at huge saving. Do not miss this rare chance!
Sin Sin is excited to present her wearable art series entitled "Hands on Yogyakarta", consisting of exquisite hand-painted batik on cotton featuring bold and yet finely detailed designs of five animals: the sensuous Fish, the playful Monkey, the pretty Butterfly, the elegant Dragonfly and the free-spirited Bird. These beautiful designs are applied on her timeless, signature silhouettes which are shown as part of the "Earthly Evocations" group art exhibition currently running through June 17th. All the pieces in this series are to be made in Limited Edition of 10 Each. Sin Sin Atelier is accepting orders for this series until end of June only. So please secure your exclusive wearable art pieces before June 30th!
Sin Sin Atelier is pleased to share that Sandra d'Auriol Summer Show held in last May 22nd and 23rd was another great success - people just can never get enough of her gorgeous jewelries. The fact that all profit from their sales is donated to Children Welfare Scheme charity organization only makes the jewelries even more enticing. We would like to thanks everyone for their continuous support and we look forward to Sandra's next show.
Refresh your senses amongst lush greenery and pure tranquility! Situated in rice fields around the Legian/Seminyak area, Sin Sin Villa is the perfect place to relax your soul, body and mind this summer.
The show is to be held from June 15 to August 15, 2012 and will be accompanied with music, performance and talks program. Sin Sin Man, the founder of Sin Sin Fine Art has been invited to give a talk which will be held on July 10, 2012 in Kunstraum, Liechtenstein. The topic of her talk is "Crisscrossing" in which she will share her experience and passion on art and cultural exploration and exchange.
In this exhibition, nine Hong Kong artists show recent work; and, amongst their individual intentions and messages, they reveal a little about themselves. Amidst the frenzy of Hong Kong's supposed recent "art boom", the actual work that artists undertake - the thinking, conceptualization and physical realization of a project - should also be appreciated. In 'Traits, curator John Batten will briefly tease out some personal qualities within each artists' work.
Our talented French woman-sculptor Antoinette Rozan is participating in the Enlightened Substance group exhibition as part of the Le French May. Antoinette and Sin Sin are inviting you all to the cocktail party to close the exhibition where Sin Sin will be participating in the Body Art Performance to take place there. Don't miss it!
Three of our Indonesian artists Jumaldi Alfi, Abdi Setiawan and Yunizar, together with Fendry Ekel, Erianto are participating in a group exhibiton at Marc Straus Art Gallery New York: "YOGYAKARTA" Five Artists From Indonesia - which will be held on June 27, 2012 - August 19, 2012.

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