chin kong yee
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Biography
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Chin Kong Yee seeks his audience to feel and see what he has experienced in the creation of his art work. He has labeled his style as Actuality Accorded Painting (AAP), whereby, in painting and portraying an object, it has to have existed, and have undergone the process of being real, in order for it to be translated onto the canvas as Art. AAP, is basically the act of seeing-where the past, the present and the future is enveloped into one when one looks at an object. Once eye contact has been made through AAP, the images become the past. This can be seen in some of his cityscape works, namely Kull Mariyanan where "half of a moving taxi" gradually fades into the facade of a building.
The same theme is seen in his figurative works, where the model is painted over a period of a few hours, and thus never really stays in one position (movements and expressions however slight, are continually undulating). As the artist aptly says, ` / cannot subjectively decide how she looks, / can only portray her according to a combination of changing expressions, over a period of time... because the affinity between different individuals changes very subtly with every moment".
To this artist, nothing is ever stagnant. Images are changing and evolving as you look at them. Space can never be measured or fixed, it is only present in the mobility of Time.
Kong Yee's works evoke a some what surreal feel about them.By combining the present, past and future through a depiction of two perspectives (realistic and unrealistic) his paintings have an exciting, dramatic edge about them that draws the viewer into his space.
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Statement
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Actuality According Painting (AAP), the portraying object it have to be realistically exist and had to undergo the quality of being real.
An existent reality without undergo the process of experiment and contact, that is not reality. It is merely a scheduled reality.
The AAP is a phenomenon of seeing, interlace by the contact and experience of subjectivity and objectivity world.
Seeing phenomenon means develop and making of the mark system in spatial and sight.
When seeing this system begin to operate and produce, marks being trace continuously, and because of difference it creates an initial image, and between these mark new images are being form continuously, they become the past once the contact has been make.
An absolute presence that is impossibility, images is situated endlessly in an uncertain circumstance, they can only reorganize and transform.
The actuality of spatial cannot be fixed, it just present in the mobility of time.
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Exhibitions
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2000
June 2000 `World in Square Feet' Central Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur
July 2000 `Colours of Brazil' Isetan Gallery, Kuala Lumpur
Dec 2000 ` 3 Man Show' Anugerah Gallery Star Hill Lobby, Kuala Lumpur
Nov 2000 `Philip Morris Group of Companies ASEAN Art Awards 2000 `
National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur
2001
June 2001 ` Locals Only! ` Gallerie Taksu, Kuala Lumpur
Oct 2001 ` Manusia ` N.N. Gallery Kuala Lumpur
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April 2002 `Identities Who we are`National Art Gallery,Kuala Lumpur
Oct 2002 'Figuring Splendour'Metro Fine Art,Kuala Lumpur
2003
April 2003, `Undulating Spaces'Townhouse Gallery,Kuala Lumpur
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