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Yeoh
Kean Thai: Generation Flow
Mixed Media on Canvas
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“WHAT GOES UP…. “
@ SHALINI GANENDRA FINE ART, KL, Malaysia
From October 22 - December 30, 2009
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An exhibition
centered around the meaning of the title ,
as represented by four established and
award winning artists:
Yeoh Kean Thai, Lileng Wong, Zac Lee and
Shia Yih Yiing.
Yeoh Kean
Thai
investigates the flow of generations, using
vernacular symbolism. Thai has recently
been awarded the prestigious Commonwealth
Art – International Residency.
Award winning artist, Yeoh Kean Thai, has
developed an artistic language using metal
to comment on environment, social identity
and individual introspection. For a
significant part of his aesthetic career, he
has documented processes of disruption,
corruption and manipulation of environment.
His focus on the visual consequences has
created an aesthetic vocabulary that adeptly
voices concerns for environmental and social
issues, from contemporary and historical
perspectives, and has garnered international
recognition through awards, including the
Phillip Morris Art Award (Malaysia) and the
Freeman Fellowship in 2008. He was also the
first artist from Malaysia to have work
featured during New York’s Asian Art week
(in 2008).
Shia Yih
Yiing
looks at what keeps her spirits high –
fairytales
and wishes.
Shia Yih Yiing
was born in Kuching, Sarawak and received a
Diploma in Fine Art from KL's Malaysian
Institute of Art.
Her works address and investigate issues of
cultural identity, heritage and
globablisation, along with relationships
between perceptions and realities. Her
technique is detailed and meticulous and she
gives careful thought to the symbols and
colours that she applies.
Shia has participated in a number of art
programs including the 1994 ‘Asean Visual
Art Education Symposium & Workshop’,
Mandalayong, Philippines and the 1999
‘Commonwealth Fellowship in Arts & Crafts’,
UWS Nepean, NSW Australia
Lileng Wong ,
whose work will be featured at Ayala Museum
in Manila later this year, presents
beautifully crafted ceramics.
Lileng Wong was
captivated by the art of pottery from
childhood, growing up in Kota Kinabalu,
Sabah, in East Malaysia. She spent numerous
hours with her father at his workplace, a
factory that produced red brick. There she
was left to play with the clay, while her
father fired up a six chamber vacuum wood
kiln.
Her early works were characteristically
round with narrow necks, with very simple
glazing. Besides gas firing, Lileng often
chooses Raku or Smoke firing. Intrigued by
the nuances of shape, form and shadow, her
work explores these relationships and
others.
She leaves her creations unnamed, giving
them to the imaginations of the audiences.
Zac Lee
works with the national flowers to question
the rise of society and related
implications.
Lee’s fluid strokes study sublime behaviors
and relationships, and present ‘trace
evidence’ of need, desires, distortion, and
interactions. Objects and forms are
metaphors for human relationships and often
involve inquiry into contemporary and
international applications of traditional
folklore and national iconography.
Trained in the traditional and local
painting aesthetic, Lee has developed
techniques experimenting with abstraction
and realism, influenced in part by work done
during the Freeman Fellowship.
Lee divides his time between his art and a
full time teaching position at a local
academic institution.
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