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SINGAPORE: The Singapore Botanic Gardens turns 150 years old this year, and to celebrate the milestone, it has tied up with the Korea Festival 2009 to spruce up the gardens with nature offerings of a different kind.
The eight-week exhibition called "Nature Borne" features works by 10 visual artists from Singapore and South Korea.
"Conversation From Nature," a 2.1-ton granite sculpture, was flown in from South Korea just for this exhibition.
"I want to show the relationship between Singapore and Korea for the future. So I present two images for the relations - that is the orchid flower and the other is the Korean Rose of Sharon," said Professor Lee Soo Hong, a South Korean artist at the Nature Borne Exhibition.
However, not all the artworks are conventional sculptures - like the 2-D piece called "Mind Map".
"There is this immediate connection between my Mind Map and the library, which is the centre of information, the centre of discovery, of research. My Mind Map doesn't contain everything possible that you can think about in terms of human, plants animal-relationship," said Michael Lee, a Singaporean artist at the Nature Borne Exhibition.
More than 25 sculptures and installations are dotted over one third of the gardens, near the Botany Centre.
Curators of the Nature Borne Exhibition said the locations for the sculptures and installations were decided according to how they interact with people and nature.
The new exhibition is already proving a hit with shutterbugs, who cannot resist taking pictures with the artworks.
The exhibition will end on December 27.
- CNA/sc
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