Exhibitions The ExtraOrdinary @ Tanjong Pagar
3 February 2012 - 24 February 2012
solo exhibition by Boo Sze Yang

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Fire Extinguisher (2010), Oil on canvas, 73 x 60 cm 
About The Exhibition

"In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary." – Aaron Rose

He said, "Go and tell this people: Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving." – Isaiah 6:9

The ExtraOrdinary is a series of paintings of ordinary and everyday objects which the artist encountered in his daily living. We live and learn in an environment where we never fully see or grasp the entirety of an object. Our life is a series of assumption and belief about what we see, who we are and how we should go on living. We take certain things for granted simply because we can’t question them. Sometimes we take the wrong things for granted and we will never know if the life we lived is actually just an illusion.

For Boo, painting is not cosmetic; but a means of recovery or disclosure to the various nuances in life. Boo believes that the potency of a painting lies neither in its lucid narrative nor polished surfaces but in its metaphorical inference through the image it presents.


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