Pick of the week

>Paresh Maity at Art Stage Singapore: Don't fret yet if you've missed Indian artist Paresh Maity's solo exhibition, Metamorphosis of Colours which was held at The Arts House earlier this week, because some of his works will also be on display at Art Stage Singapore over this weekend.

Five oil canvas works and one installation piece will be showcased by the Gallery Sumukha at booth D9, and priced from $90,000 to $100,000 for the oil on canvas pieces, and $150,000 for the whole installation. The installation piece is titled Story of Life, and is made up of nine metal trunks of different sizes. Each trunk can also be purchased separately. According to the artist, he created Story of Life as a way of paying homage to his youth, when he often used metal trunks to store his drawings and watercolours while he was still studying as an arts student.

Maity hails from a small town in West Bengal India called Tamluk, which is famous for its terracotta art. When he was younger, he started off by watching the local artisans making clay idols, and eventually learnt to make his own clay images of gods and goddesses.Since then, Maity has come a long way, and now has held over 60 exhibitions all over the world, and even won the Royal Watercolour Society Award in London.