Curated by Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa), and co-organised by Goethe-Institut and Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, this exhibition featured 40 gouaches by the German artist, Sigmar Polke. Born in Oels in Silesia (then Germany, now part of Poland) in 1941, this internationally acclaimed artist, who started practicing in the early 1960s, had been concerned with the relationship between the reality contained in a picture and reality itself. Titled Music from an Unknown Source, Polke made the dripping and flowing of the paint the central theme in this show which also represented an artistic form that held a significant and singular position in the art scene of post-war Germany.
Music from an Unknown Source: Sigmar Pollke
Artist(s)
Sigmar Pollke
