Departures and Arrivals
2022 new work for ‘A Paradigm Shift - Reflecting on Twenty Years of The Malaysian Art Scene’
at Wei-Ling Gallery from 21st June – 6th August 2022.
Arrivals
92cm x 163cm
Acrylic, Chinese ink on canvas
(2022)
92cm x 163cm
Acrylic, Chinese ink on canvas
(2022)
Departures
60cm x 135cm x 16cm
Face masks, Chinese ink, xuan paper on canvas
(2022)
60cm x 135cm x 16cm
Face masks, Chinese ink, xuan paper on canvas
(2022)
Departures and Arrivals
The work "Departures and Arrivals" consists of two separate works.
Departures
A three-dimensional work, a landscape construct from over hundred pieces of face masks.
For nearly three years our world was trapped in a pandemic which change everyone lifestyle, swifted the system of our society to a new facade. Wearing a mask had become a must now, it has become part of our clothing and this is a symbolic change of our society, in this work I am using a face masks to build a landscape, and this is the true portrait of our world's landscape for the past three years. The work "Departures" is a wish, hope this adverse situation is about to boarding and depart and the new beginning will arrive.
Arrivals
This is a landscape painting composed from 4 landscape master works, which are:
1.Wang Ximeng 王希孟 (1096 - 1119)
work: A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains千里江山图
year: 1113 (Northern Song Dynasty)
2.Guo Xi 郭熙 (1020- 1090)
work: Early Spring早春图
year: 1072 (Northern Song Dynasty)
3.Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890)
work: The Starry Night
year: 1889
4.Joachim Patinir (1485-1524)
work: Paysage au bord du lac
year: 16th century
Why these 4 paintings:
1.'A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains' -this is a work with powerful spirit, a positive energy lies within it. The charisma of nature kingdom and the splendid of mountain and river are successful describe, it is one of the greatest works of Chinese art.
2.'Early Spring' -in spring, the steam rises up slowly in the mountains, implying that the cold has not completely faded, thawing and warming, the mountains are moving, life seems to be suddenly woken up, there is a hazy light enveloped, all the life is about to reveal a little life signal is actually the most beautiful feeling in spring.
(Used two of this works to symbolize hope and new begining, it's the prototype of oriental wisdom)
3.'The Starry Night' -through this painting, Van Gogh does not want to use the vast universe to contrast the insignificance of human beings and make them fear, but to convey a spirit of not bowing to fate.
4. Chose Joachim Patinir's work because Patinir was a pioneer of landscape as an independent genre and he was the first Flemish painter to regard himself primarily as a landscape painter; and his landscape was descibe as effectively invented the world landscape.
(Used two of this works to symbolize cherish, never give up and unity)
And combine together these four works I want to convey a positive message, it is about the new beginning, hope, cherish and unity to our world, a community with a shared future for mankind, and this moment is about to arrive.
The work "Departures and Arrivals" consists of two separate works.
Departures
A three-dimensional work, a landscape construct from over hundred pieces of face masks.
For nearly three years our world was trapped in a pandemic which change everyone lifestyle, swifted the system of our society to a new facade. Wearing a mask had become a must now, it has become part of our clothing and this is a symbolic change of our society, in this work I am using a face masks to build a landscape, and this is the true portrait of our world's landscape for the past three years. The work "Departures" is a wish, hope this adverse situation is about to boarding and depart and the new beginning will arrive.
Arrivals
This is a landscape painting composed from 4 landscape master works, which are:
1.Wang Ximeng 王希孟 (1096 - 1119)
work: A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains千里江山图
year: 1113 (Northern Song Dynasty)
2.Guo Xi 郭熙 (1020- 1090)
work: Early Spring早春图
year: 1072 (Northern Song Dynasty)
3.Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890)
work: The Starry Night
year: 1889
4.Joachim Patinir (1485-1524)
work: Paysage au bord du lac
year: 16th century
Why these 4 paintings:
1.'A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains' -this is a work with powerful spirit, a positive energy lies within it. The charisma of nature kingdom and the splendid of mountain and river are successful describe, it is one of the greatest works of Chinese art.
2.'Early Spring' -in spring, the steam rises up slowly in the mountains, implying that the cold has not completely faded, thawing and warming, the mountains are moving, life seems to be suddenly woken up, there is a hazy light enveloped, all the life is about to reveal a little life signal is actually the most beautiful feeling in spring.
(Used two of this works to symbolize hope and new begining, it's the prototype of oriental wisdom)
3.'The Starry Night' -through this painting, Van Gogh does not want to use the vast universe to contrast the insignificance of human beings and make them fear, but to convey a spirit of not bowing to fate.
4. Chose Joachim Patinir's work because Patinir was a pioneer of landscape as an independent genre and he was the first Flemish painter to regard himself primarily as a landscape painter; and his landscape was descibe as effectively invented the world landscape.
(Used two of this works to symbolize cherish, never give up and unity)
And combine together these four works I want to convey a positive message, it is about the new beginning, hope, cherish and unity to our world, a community with a shared future for mankind, and this moment is about to arrive.
4 close-up views of the work "Departures"