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The smart home gets smarter.

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Hubert Le Gall diffuses fantasy and humour within his artful pieces, cementing how much of a sculptor and sewer of stories he is.

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The 3rd Audemars Piguet Art Commission lit up the Florida oceanfront, featuring Lars Jan’s massive installation.

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Are shiny silver aliens frying your brain cells? Why isn't sci-fi considered real literature?

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And no, you don't want to use them as a lap desk.

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An architectural account of sanatoriums, peculiar vacation spots scattered across the former Eastern Bloc.

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Immersive virtual-reality experiences could well be the future of cinema.

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The Artist Dreams of Golden Art

Kim Il-tae first toyed with the idea of golden art out of desperation. He’d made it to the America as an artist, but was struggling to make a name for himself. His art teacher mother, who’d spent 36 years encouraging students to risk the path less travelled, suggested painting in gold. Not gold leaf or gold foil, but the actual malleable, ductile, material itself. Completely unheard of then and now. He became an amateur alchemist and took seven years to perfect a secret mixture of 24-carat gold powder, natural oil and a glue of his own making. Then spent several more practicing with the finest red clay from the southwest province of South Jeolla. Today he is the only artist who does gold pigment paintings that do not crack or change colour. But blood, sweat and tears weren’t the only toll.

[caption id="attachment_63831" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Prince Michael of Kent with Kim Il-tae[/caption]

The Price for a Dream

To plaster the precious metal on canvas, he sold the only property he owned, and no one, from art critics to his own wife, thought he was sane. Even his wife left him and he was ostracized by society. Yet, all he wanted to do was rise to the challenge of pioneering an unknown art area. The result? Deep, rich textures and shades from deftly manipulating a fine chisel as opposed to a brush.

[caption id="attachment_63830" align="aligncenter" width="720"] Ivana Trump won the bid for Kim Il-tae's work jacket in Saatchi Gallery London 2016[/caption]

The Grand Unveiling

His first private exhibition was awarded in 2011, at Insa-dong, a culture and art district in downtown Seoul. A ruckus ensured when someone brought along a metal detector to determine if indeed the artist was true to his word. Since then, his work has been greatly welcomed in China, Hong Kong, the United Kingdom and Japan.

[caption id="attachment_63826" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Serena Chiam, Kim Il Tae, Michael Teh and Allison Yeo[/caption]

Promoting Art

If you’re interested to purchase his sublime work, a gentleman named Michael Teh will be glad to make you an offer. The founder and managing director of Saged Assets, together with Serena Chiam, the founder of Acts One Group, have been given the rights to jointly represent Mr. Kim Il Tae to promote his works. You can also read the full feature published in January 2018 issue on how this investment maverick got attracted to the the artwork and why he has decided to promote the gold artist.  Subsequently, you can find out more about the Gold Art here.

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These are the spiffy rides that may be hitting the streets this year.

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The most stylish wet market of today

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Creative director Andrée Deissenberg tells us why the Crazy Horse Paris is more into butts than boobs.

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At last month’s opening of his New Paintings exhibition at London’s Saatchi Gallery, British artist and fashion designer Philip Colbert talked branding, Trump and surrealist lobsters.

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