28 May to 20 June: "Flux Technicolour" by Ian Woo (Fortune Cookie Projects)

"Magic Mountain" by Ian Woo

Steady Flux of Talent
La Salle College lecturer paints his imaginary cinematic experience

FORTUNE Cookie Projects presents an exhibition of new work by Singaporean artist Ian Woo. His seemingly free-form improvisations belie a highly disciplined architectonic. Using pattern and colour he creates a series of imaginary worlds, landscapes and allegories that allow the viewer to make his own choices and his own discoveries.

A lecturer for Postgraduate Studies at Lasalle College of the Arts, Woo has exhibited extensively throughout Asia. His work can be found in corporate, private and institutional art collections around the world.

Artist's Statement

'The title Flux Technicolour comes from a reference to the idea of a continuous presence of fluctuating changes in both colour and forms that affects the gravity of the paintings. I think about temperature and quality of light quite a lot when applying colours to a painting.

"I also have this fascination that the painting is an imaginary light box, where structure, substance, colour co-relate to become matter. I like to pretend that the painting is like a film still from some imaginary cinematic experience.'

The Organisers

Fortune Cookie Projects, an international art advisory and curatorial firm with offices in Singapore and New York, has long been active in organising art exhibitions of major artists throughout Asia. Mary Dinaburg and Howard Rutkowski, the principals of Fortune Cookie Projects, each have over thirty years experience in the international contemporary art market.

Projects featuring prominent artists such as Sigmar Polke, Georg Baselitz, Jorg Immendorff, A.R.
Penck, Per Kirkeby and Markus Lupertz have been realized in Seoul, Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing and Hong Kong. Most recently Fortune Cookie Projects curated the first major retrospective of art paintings by Julian Schnabel, which traveled throughout China and Korea.

Fortune Cookie Projects has also been instrumental in curating exhibitions and securing platforms for Asian artists at institutional and commercial venues throughout the United States and Europe.

Fortune Cookie Projects is the organiser of Showcase Singapore, Southeast Asia's first international contemporary art fair, which debuted in September 2008.

Fortune Cookie Projects also curated the first exhibition of paintings by Julian Schnabel in Singapore which will travel to the National Museum of the Philippines in June 2009.

For directions:

Fortune Cookie Projects
39 Keppel Road #02-04
Tanjong Pagar Distripark
Singapore 089065
Tel. No. (65) 9382 1700