LGDR & Wei, Hong Kong, is pleased to present Scenes of This World: Modern Paintings from Singapore and Vietnam, an exhibition dedicated to the paintings of twentieth-century Southeast Asian artists connected to the cultural contexts of Singapore and Vietnam. Curated by art historian Karin G. Oen and part of a larger reappraisal of twentieth-century art from Southeast Asia, this exhibition reveals a rich visual language that brings together aspects of Asian, European, and North American painting traditions and a distinctly Southeast Asian vernacular.

Opening January 18 at LGDR & Wei’s Ice House Street location, Scenes of This World: Modern Paintings from Singapore and Vietnam features over 30 works in oil, ink, and gouache, among other media, by eleven artists recognized as modern masters of their respective countries. The exhibition beckons the viewer to examine the defining styles of a generation of transnational artists that came of age in the 1930s and were collectively shaped by cosmopolitanism. They distinguished the modernist movement in their countries, responding to sociopolitical changes while maintaining conceptual and artistic affiliations with the School of Paris, including—Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, and Cubism.

Gallery address: 2 Ice House Street Central