Art Seasons

01/06/2026

New York’s senior art critic, Jerry Salt in his recent article, “Seeing Red” for Vulture grieved that auction houses celebrate record-breaking sales in the language of finance, collectors are advised by wealth managers, and artworks are frequently described as “investment-grade assets.” Prices rise and collapse according to confidence, scarcity, visibility, and reputation, often detached from sustained discussions about artistic meaning.

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The contemporary art market increasingly resembles a financial marketplace rather than a cultural sphere organised around aesthetic judgment, historical significance, or intellectual discourse. New York’s senior art critic, Jerry Salt in his recent article, “Seeing Red” for Vulture grieved tha...

29/05/2026

Komkrit Tepthian’s Subhuman artworks are available at ART SEASONS Gallery.

UBHUMAN – The bloodless coup of 1932 marked a pivotal moment in Thailand’s history, ending nearly 800 years of absolute monarchy. King Prajadhipok was compelled to adopt a constitutional system, ushering in modern Thailand and initiating the long-standing civilian–military struggle for political control. Since then, Thailand has experienced numerous coups and attempted coups, reflecting ongoing instability within its political landscape.

In SUBHUMAN, Thai artist Komkrit Tepthian explores the tensions between power, memory, and social inequality. His sculpture Golden Head resembles a fractured relic, yet its glossy contemporary finish situates it firmly in the present. The rough textures and crude form evoke Thailand’s political conflicts, from struggles between the monarchy, military, and civilian governments to tensions between aristocratic power and emerging elites. The painted numbers “193” and the staring eye intensify the work’s ominous atmosphere, suggesting surveillance, loss, and collective amnesia.

Komkrit critiques a society shaped by plutocracy and cronyism, where ordinary voices are overshadowed by ruling elites. However, he also points to the rise of literacy and social media as forces challenging entrenched power. Inspired by the student movements and violent crackdowns of the 1970s, his works express hope for social change and a new turning point in Thailand’s history. Even under King Vajiralongkorn, the artist warns that political rhetoric may change, yet systems of manipulation often remain strikingly familiar.

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26/05/2026

Komkrit Tepthian’s Subhuman available at Art Seasons.

UBHUMAN – The bloodless coup of 1932 marked a pivotal moment in Thailand’s history, ending nearly 800 years of absolute monarchy. The movement was compelled to adopt a constitutional system, ushering in modern Thailand and initiating the long-standing civilian–military struggle for political control. Since then, Thailand has experienced numerous coups and attempted coups, reflecting ongoing instability within its political landscape.

In SUBHUMAN, Thai artist Komkrit Tepthian explores the tensions between power, memory, and social inequality. His sculpture Golden Head resembles a fractured relic, yet its glossy contemporary finish situates it firmly in the present. The rough textures and crude form evoke Thailand’s political conflicts, from struggles between the monarchy, military, and civilian governments to tensions between aristocratic power and emerging elites. The painted numbers “193” and the staring eye intensify the work’s ominous atmosphere, suggesting surveillance, loss, and collective amnesia.

Komkrit critiques a society shaped by plutocracy and cronyism, where ordinary voices are overshadowed by ruling elites. However, he also points to the rise of literacy and social media as forces challenging entrenched power. Inspired by the student movements and violent crackdowns of the 1970s, his works express hope for social change and a new turning point in Thailand’s history. Even under the movement, the artist warns that political rhetoric may change, yet systems of manipulation often remain strikingly familiar.

Art Galleries Association Singapore

24/05/2026

The contemporary art market has increasingly come to resemble a speculative financial system rather than a cultural sphere organised around aesthetic judgment. The question raised by recent criticism in the art market is therefore urgent: what would a post-investment art market look like?

PDF version: qrco.de/AMBFV

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The contemporary art market has increasingly come to resemble a speculative financial system rather than a cultural sphere organised around aesthetic judgment. Prices rise and collapse according to confidence, visibility, and reputation, often detached from any stable discourse about artistic meanin

23/05/2026

馬福民 Desmond Mah in The 2026 Sovereign Asian Art Prize!

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07/05/2026

PHUNK Transmission 02

05/05/2026

David Chan (1979)
Bias Colours
2017
Oil on Linen
200 x 200 cm
(soon available on prints)

David Chan’s master work, Bias Colours examine and touch on explicit bias, which refer to attitudes, stereotypes and discrimination expressed through one’s thoughts and actions, as well as implicit bias which a person might not even be aware.

The characteristic of human visual perception is described through colour categories, and bespeaks the idea of beauty by pouring contempt on social prejudices; bias is a natural process that results in the survival and reproductive instincts of collective individuals or groups adjusted to their environment and that leads to perpetuation of genetic qualities best suited to that particular experience.

To embrace diversity means acceptance of skin complexions beyond physical appearances, gender differences, religion etc. Yet In many of our sensorial concepts and figures of speech, we continue to do the opposite. Instead of categorising people as a homogeneous lot, we still hold onto many misconstrued perceptions which are connected to our visceral associations. Numerous indeed are visual fallacies which we have never discarded.

David Chan’s closely aligned ideologies, a layering of styles, possibilities and even paradoxical equivalents in his art acknowledges coloured tensions for the ephemeral nature and ethereal quality of all species of mankind. His works are monumental, epic, representational, and generates environmental concerns based on realms mediated and grounded in reality.

He has epitomised the quintessence of human dignity using imageries that evokes emotions and which open windows to cultural identities by close juxtaposition of subjects with common nature.

Art Galleries Association Singapore David Chan

25/03/2026

Remembering Lee Kuan Yew.

We have received many requests for David Chan to produce his first iconic work from the National Identity 4.0, Lee and Raffles - Five Stars Arising prints.

David will produce a one-off limited editions of 3 prints. Details below:-
David Chan (1979)
Lee and Raffles - Five Stars Arising
23/3/2026
Fine Art Print on Matt Board
95 x 77 cm (with Frame)
Limited Editions of 3

Art Galleries Association Singapore Remembering Lee Kuan Yew

22/03/2026

Thank you all for attending Artists@Work, getting behind the scenes with Zhang Qiao’s intaglio printing using etching; and Joanna Maneckji’s use of reclaimed materials in collage making.

Check out Dialogue of Differences - brings together artists whose practices confront the frictions shaping today’s geopolitical, cultural, and social landscapes. At a time when rising nationalist sentiment and renewed “war economies”— both literal and ideological, seek to reinforce old hierarchies, the exhibition offers a counterpoint through artistic dissent, complexity, and exchange. Rather than collapsing perspectives into simple binaries, it opens a space where contradiction and nuance become modes of resistance.

Participating artists: Awang Damit Ahmad, Karina D. Simon, Lester Lee, Joanna Maneckji, Umibaizurah Mahir@Ismail, Wang Jiang, Yin Chua, and Zhang Qiao.

Dialogue of Differences e-catalog: qrco.de/bgZS8y

Co-presenter Y Art Project

ART SEASONS Gallery
50 Genting Lane, Cideco Industrial Complex, #03-02, Singapore 349558

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