Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Commission Series

The Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Commission series invites one leading international artist each year to present a site-specific work that reflects upon our region's rich cultural heritage and complex histories from a contemporary perspective.

Shilpa Gupta

Edited by Adele Tan

248 × 174 mm

120 pages, paperback

ISBN: 978-981-18-6827-6 (PB) | 978-981-18-6828-3 (digital)

USD 23 | GBP 20 | SGD 25

Expected publication: August 2023

The latest title in this book series presents Indian artist Shilpa Gupta’s monumental inflatable sculpture, Untitled. The sculpture depicts the dualities of our innermost struggles and the externalities around us. This book includes a curatorial essay that situates Gupta’s new work in relation to her art practice and other global sociopolitical forces as well as a full colour photo documentation of the sculpture against the backdrop of Singapore’s skyline. It also features a guest essay written by a well-known mental health professional who engages with the artist’s take on the human conditions. The last section of the book is a set of colourfully illustrated activity sheets, co-developed with an art therapist, that children and adults can use to navigate their emotions and responses towards conflict and other difficult issues.

See also the four other titles in the Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Commission series (p. 28)

Liu Kuo-sung: Experimentation as Method

Edited by Cai Heng

Approx. 275 × 205 mm

Approx. 296 pages

English and Chinese

ISBN: 978-981-18-5568-9

USD 40 | GBP 30 | SGD 50

Expected publication: August 2023

With a career spanning more than 70 years, Liu Kuo-sung is a pioneering figure in modern Chinese ink. He has forged new ways of thinking about the legacy of Chinese painting through his non-traditional brush methods, and experiments with the materiality of ink and paper.

This bilingual exhibition catalogue features full-colour reproductions of over 60 works across Liu’s career, newly commissioned essays by leading scholars, and rare archival materials documenting key episodes of Liu’s engagement with international and regional art discourses.

The Modern in Southeast Asian Art: A Reader

Edited by T.K. Sabapathy and Patrick Flores

244 × 182 mm

Two volumes, 1326 pages, paperback

ISBN: 978-981-14-0664-5

USD 90 | GBP 72 | SGD 120

Published with NTU Centre for Contemporary Art

Published May 2023

Who spoke of the modern in Southeast Asia? When and where was the modern written? How was it written? How was it received? This collection brings together nearly 300 texts that were originally published between the late 19 th to late 20 th centuries, selected by a group of scholars as responses to questions such as these. The texts were produced chiefly in various locations in the region, by artists, critics, historians and curators in 13 languages, many of which had never before been translated into the English language. Years in the making, this publication is the first to present such breadth and depth of art writing in the region of Southeast Asia, and will be a valuable resource to students, teachers, scholars and those interested in Southeast Asian studies and art history.