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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"-->TWENTY paintings worth up to $500,000 have been lost in transit on the way to ARTSingapore, a major contemporary art fair opening tomorrow.
The paintings by Italian artist Luigi Rincicotti, packed into a 50kg box, were being transported by delivery service company TNT Express from Bangkok to Singapore.
Ms Delia Kang, who owns the Bangkok-based gallery that is bringing in the show, says the paintings were to arrive in Singapore three weeks ago.
But TNT has been unable to find the shipment. A TNT spokesman says: 'We take the matter of correct delivery very seriously and regret that this incident has occurred as well as the distress caused to Ms Kang.''
The spokesman says that the company has 'increased efforts'' to track down the shipment.
Ms Kang's Carpediem Galleries is one of more than 100 outfits taking part in the four-day art fair, which is showing art worth US$30 million (S$44 million).
The missing paintings, which depict human figures in a variety of magical and colourful settings, are unframed and linen-on-board. They are of different sizes but 12 paintings, in a series inspired by Italian operas, are 50cm by 60cm large. Read the full story in Thursday's edition of The Straits Times Life!.
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"-->TWENTY paintings worth up to $500,000 have been lost in transit on the way to ARTSingapore, a major contemporary art fair opening tomorrow.
The paintings by Italian artist Luigi Rincicotti, packed into a 50kg box, were being transported by delivery service company TNT Express from Bangkok to Singapore.
Ms Delia Kang, who owns the Bangkok-based gallery that is bringing in the show, says the paintings were to arrive in Singapore three weeks ago.
But TNT has been unable to find the shipment. A TNT spokesman says: 'We take the matter of correct delivery very seriously and regret that this incident has occurred as well as the distress caused to Ms Kang.''
The spokesman says that the company has 'increased efforts'' to track down the shipment.
Ms Kang's Carpediem Galleries is one of more than 100 outfits taking part in the four-day art fair, which is showing art worth US$30 million (S$44 million).
The missing paintings, which depict human figures in a variety of magical and colourful settings, are unframed and linen-on-board. They are of different sizes but 12 paintings, in a series inspired by Italian operas, are 50cm by 60cm large. Read the full story in Thursday's edition of The Straits Times Life!.
