Travel Singapore : Art in the City

I went back to The Esplanade Theaters on The Bay just last week and the weather was superb!

Sunny weather and humid as the usual-lovely! This taken from the Esplanade Promenade; stood one of the outdoor ground venues for outdoor performances.During evenings, this would be the perfect place for an after dinner stroll.

Ahead of me is the Merlion Hotel. You can't be able to see the mystical creature because she's enclosed within the 100 sqm luxury room. Her guests found themselves a good deal as it was sold out reservations at SGD 150nett!! It will be occupied from April 4 to May 5 2011.Click the link below for more story: http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_640037.html

This walk was out of the norm, no definite destination.
On my walk, I found some interesting sculptures along the way. On my way looking up the sunny skies, there stood the clusters of skycrappers and just one building caught my eyes (and some sculptures too)

Here's to another episode show and tell : Arts in the City!

The Bird by BOTERO, Fernando

This sculpture is an aesthetics artwork;roundly figure by this famed Columbian artist.This, I could say a classic example of how my waistline gonna be in years to come should I not diligently follow the exercise regime and of course,this goes without saying - cutting down unhealthy snacks! Locate the Bird on the ground floor, near to the Singapore River's promenade of United Overseas Bank Plaza (UOB PLaza). Anyway,for further reading about public art in Singapore - here's to it: http://www.publicart.sg/?q=Botero-Bird

United Overseas Plaza (UOB PLaza)

As you walk out the plaza and along the Singapore River's promenade,look above the exterior of UOB Plaza and you will see something spectacular.How could a simple geomatric form that was found in usual rectangular buildings could be manupulated into something visually beautiful? You will see not just 1 but 2 octagonal towers linked by an office bridge of 12 meter high. These towers consist of rotated cubic volumes and angled at 45 degrees to each other.This composition set apart from the rest,really and it was designed by the Japanese architect - Mr. Kenzo Tange.

First Generation sculpture by the Singapore River,behind Fullerton Hotel

Ah yes, this the sculpture that I wanted to tell you about.

The boys in their younger heydays, high in spirit and can't wait to leap into the cooling river under such hot sunny weather.The sculptor, Mr. Fah Cheong, CHONG managed to captured such carefree essence which I doubt younger children in today's generation can appreciate the simplicity of life and without any attachment to electric gizmos, agree?

For more information on Mr. Chong - the sculptor, here's the link:
http://www.fahcheong.com/bio.html

Such a lovely art walk in such a short time and all these public art are within reach,we pass them by everyday.On our way to work,out from the office for lunch and appointments.It is always there.

But we never stop and see.We never seem to get the time to appreciate it.We just wade through our surroundings somehow, unknowingly missing out the best of it all.