Fact or Fiction
To round off the exhibitions at the gallery this year, Wei-Ling Gallery presents the intuitive printmaker, KIM NG’s second solo exhibition, ’Fact or Fiction’.
For ‘Fact or Fiction’, Kim Ng investigates the connection between the past and present, through the use of symbols and visual images, which all carry with them reminisces from his past. What does familiarity mean? How important is the memory of the past? That which has changed with age and time? Kim Ng’s works suggest a way in assessing the daily occurrences within the modern world.
He says:
“Art has become,above all a means of communication through symbols, a ‘synthesis’ of visual forms, carrying within them memories, feelings and ideas.”
This series of works are an intimate look at the passing of time through the use of colour, forms, and texture which reflect the real and the unreal.
What does familiarity mean? How important is the memory of the past? That which has changed with age and time? Kim Ng’s works suggest a way in assessing the daily occurrences within the modern world.
Kim Ng’s oeuvre has always been concerned with the environment and nature. He explores the details within nature, using images and objects from the real world as a source.
In an attempt to sustain the physical experience, he records the image through the situation he encounters. The captured moment frozen in time has been re-examined, manipulated and transformed into a visual stimulus, to evoke a sense of familiarity.
Through investigating and evaluating the phenomenon of our fast changing society, his experience is recorded through represented images. Kim Ng combines figurative and abstract forms, presenting the ‘objective images in a subjective way’. To understand Kim Ng’s artworks, one should not focus too much on the way he has constructed the visual effect, but rather on how he sees the world and how he associates himself with the complexity of the society and environment in which he lives and thrives.
His work reflects the relation between the present and the absent, a record of what exists and what is void, laid contradictory within the work; all under the presence of time. Reality and imagination merge into one; the real and reconstructed exist at the same time, leaving the viewer in doubt about the truth of the interpretation of the experience.
An exhibition not to be missed, ‘Fact or Fiction’ runs at Wei-Ling Gallery from 4th December-28th December 2006.Wei-Ling Gallery is located at 8,Jalan Scott,Brickfields,K.L. and is open Mon-Fri,12pm-7pm,Weekends by appointment only (Call 0178877216 for details). Please visit our website for details of exhibition.www.weiling-gallery.com
Automobile, 2006 Jordan, 2006 Untitled #70, 2006 Untitled #71, 2006
Water colour, object print collage, Silkscreen, woodcut, Collagraph, emboss Collagraph
20cm x 29.5cm 20cm x 29.5cm 35cm x 50cm 35cm x 50cm
Plant 1, 2006 Plant II, 2006 Plant III, 2006 Plant IV, 2006
Bitumen, monoprint, object Bitumen, monoprint, object Bitumen, monoprint, object Bitumen, monoprint, object
print collage print collage print collage print collage
25cm x 35cm 25cm x 35cm 25cm x 35cm 25cm x 35cm
Gua, 2006 Kedai, 2006 Landscape with Bird, 2006 Landscape with Lily, 2006 Plot III
Bitumen, silkscreen, spray, Monoprint, silkscreen, Object print, silkscreen, Monoprint, silkscreen, bitumen, Object Print, water
paint bitumen collagraph, charcoal, bitumen water based paint, object print based paint
35cm x 100cm 35cm x 100cm 35cm x 100cm 35cm x 100cm 35cm x 100cm
Filing the Void I, 2006 Filing the Void II, 2006 Filing the Void III, 2006
6B pencil on paper, 25cm x 35cm 6B pencil on paper, 25cm x 35cm 6B pencil on paper, 25cm x 35cm
Jordan's, 2006 Landscape (Blue), 2006 Plot IV, 2006
Screen print, water based paint Silkscreen Object print, silkscreen
70x100cm 70x100cm 70x100cm
Bird catcher, 2005 Plot II
Bitumen, silkscreen, woodcut, Bitumen, object print
100cm x 100cm 140cm x 100cm
Scene, 2006 Once upon a time , 2005
Bitumen, silkscreen, woodblock, charcoal, pencil, object print, Bitumen, silkscreen, collagraph, woodblock with crayon, object print.
water based paint
140cm x 100cm
Scene 2, 2006 Untitled #69, 2006 Untitled #72, 2006
Silkscreen, woodblock, bitumen, Silkscreen, Silkscreen, pencil, bitumen, water based paint,
70cm x 100cm 70cm x 100cm 70cm x 100cm
Temple, 2006, Waiting, 2006 Plot III Untitled (Black Pot), 2006
Object print, silkscreen, pencil, Monoprint, silkscreen, Bitumen, object print Silkscreen, charcoal, water based paint
water based paint, bitumen water based paint 35x100cm 70cm x 100cm
35cm x 100cm 35x100cm
Untitled (Grapes), 2006 Viewing the Void, 2006 Yesterday
Pencil, silkscreen, collage Screen print Charcoal, silkscreen, water based paint,
70cm x 100cm 70cm x 100cm 70cm x 100cm
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"Between real and imagined" by Lim Chia Ying
Star, 16th December 2006