What Reviewers Say...
Lin Hsin Hsin is an important Singaporean artist whose interdisciplinary artistic practice across visual art, technology, poetry, science and music has been acknowledged locally and beyond.
The National Gallery Singapore has 33 artworks by her in the national collection of Singapore. The curators are planning to meet Ms Lin in 2020 to view more of her artworks as part of our on-going research
on art historically significant Singaporean artist.
January 7, 2020
Der Anspruch der Deutschen Bank als international ausgerichteter "Top Bank" erfährt seinen Niederschlag in ihrem Kunstkonzept durch die Präsentation von Kunst im Ausland. Seine nationalen Wurzeln demonstriert das Institut gleich-wohl durch finanzielle Unterstützung solcher Ausstellungen im In- und Ausland, die repräsentativ für das Kunstgeschehen im deutschsprachigen Raum sind. Damit soll zugleich ein Beitrag zur Integration verschiedener Kulturen geleistet werden, indem Barrieren, die sich in der ökonomischen Sphäre schon in der Vergan-genheit zunehmend aufzulösen scheinen, auch im gesellschaftlichen Kontext über die Vermittlung ausländischen Kulturgutes durchbrochen werden. Beispiele hier-für: die Ausstellung "Deutsche Kunst im 20. Jahrhundert" in der Royal Academy of Arts in London und im Lenbachhaus München 1996, die Ausstellung "Wassilij Kandinsky" und die Ausstellung "Max Beckmann" in der Galleria Nazionale d`Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Roma 1996 sowie "Berlin - Moskau, Moskau - Berlin" in der Berlinerischen Galerie und dem Staatlichen Puschkin-Museum für Bildende Künste 1996, die Ausstellung "Lin Hsin Hsin" im National Museum Art Gallery in Singapur 1989 und die Ausstellung "Georg Baselitz" im Schinkel-Museum in (Ost-)Berlin 1990. Erwähnenswert auch die Mitfinanzierung des 1991 fertiggestellten Neubaus des Busch-Reisinger Museum an der Harvard University in Boston, in dem eine der bedeutendsten Sammlungen deutscher Klassischer Moderne aus-gestellt ist.
Kunst-Sponsoring durch Banken -- Das Beispiel des Kunstkonzepts der Deutsche Bank AG,
Vortrag beim 11. Churburger Wirtschaftsgespräch am 12.10.1996
For Lin, narrative is a mode by which relationships and positions are ordered and shaped; her ideology is constructed out of experience...she gives prominence to the medium; in viewing her pictures we are continually reminded of the process of making, of the material and conceptual constructs of painting as art.
The embedded essentials like a keen sense of humor, cheeky irony and sheer playfulness play an important role when appreciating Lin's art, the visual and verbal imageries are, quite often, inseparable.
The artist's individuality is expressed in a convincing synthesis of Chinese and Occidental cultural heritage. Into this synthesis flows her culturally overlapping view of the world and her innovative impetus to transform the media of expression.
... the sparingly use of brush strokes, the poetic transparency-oil water-color-liked paintings of the artist and poet Lin Hsin Hsin caught the interest of the Hamburg Museum
Lin Hsin Hsin's paintings are both lyrical and sophisticated... Her poetic compositions provide an escape from the urban jungle yet reaffirms the basic inherent values of the society, minus the hard edge, immaculately executed, they are inspired by day-to-day experiences and are characterized by a repertoire of personal idioms and symbols scattered over tonal compositions over subtle modulations.
...the artist Lin Hsin Hsin creates here the longest lasting impression with her highly cultivated, sensitive, small works.
Call her a computer consultant, for that's Lin Hsin Hsin' job. then again, call hjer an artist, for she has held eight solo shows and joined in 100-plus exhibitions the world over, but call her a poet too, because she writes verses well enough to have won a U.S. prize.
...we gain enormous relief from the power of the artist, in her effortless ability to create works in which sense and sensibility are tremendously interlocked, even while we do so, we gain equal relief from the apparent absense of the artist, her transparency, her palpable egolessness.
Lin Hsin Hsin's work is Asiatic -- meditative,... the four works from Memoirs of Deutschland are oil on paper. They are completely abstract, the atmospheric mood reflexes her impressions...
...an almost overwhelming ability to assimilate, as in the case of Lin Hsin Hsin, strikes one's eye..., as a characteristic of quality, mind you.
...Lin's work is of Eastern elegance...Her poems,a s well as her paintings feature a primary natural experience.
Memoirs of Deutschland was inspired by her visit to Germany and is notably her most brilliant and self-assured. The artist's sensation of a particular place and space are translated directly into color and line by a free spontaneous brush. Again, there is an abundance of the artist's personal symbols and dream images, and evidence of her innate sense of humor...in these paintings a greater strength of composition and a richness of colors.
A highly original artist, Lin Hsin Hsin has developed a lyrical style in a totally personal idiom. She paints reflections of experience and sensations transformed by her imagination into balanced and dramatic compositions if subtle tonal hues and simple design. These manifestations of her emotional response to external stimuli contain a repertoire of signs and symbols, each with a multitude of allusions, and are painted in oils which assume the translucency of watercolors.
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