Visualize

Visualize - 6 artists group show @ Atelier Art Space | Gallery

Organize by Atelier Art Space, curated by Goh Lee Kwang, is a 6 artists group show. The exhibition opening on 14th June 2011, opening ceremony will include a live performance from one of the participant artist Wong Eng Leong.

Atelier Art Space is a new gallery space located at Block D - Unit 7 - 3rd flr of Jaya One Complex, Petaling Jaya, starting on June 2011, Atelier Art Space promise to inject a strong energy to the local art scene. is the second exhibition by Atelier Art Space, presenting Wong Eng Leong, Wong Min Lik, Tey Beng Tze, Lim Keh Soon, Hee Chee Way, and Chong Kim Chiew, all with very strong self-awareness, self motivation, and making art in high spirit; also they are actively involved in local arts scenes.

Visualize opening on 8:30pm, on 14th June 2011, the exhibition will end on 10th July 2011.

由Atelier Art Space主办，吴利光策划，《视象》 - 6艺术家展将于6月14日晚上8：30pm于Jaya One, D - Unit 7 - 3rd flr Atelier Art Space隆重开幕，届时参与的艺术家之一黄英隆将会做一段表演，做为展览的序幕。

Atelier Art Space是艺术画廊的新贵，于2011年6月正式启动，决心为本地艺坛注入一股清流。《视象》将是Atelier Art Space的第二个展览，6位艺术家，黄英隆、黄敏立、郑明智、林启顺、许志伟与张锦超全都具有强烈的自我意识，主动以及全心投入艺术创作中，另外也积极地参与本地的艺术活动，推动及拓展本地的艺术领域。

《视象》于6月14日晚上8：30pm开幕，展览至7月10日。

Curatorial note:

Visualize - 6 artists group show @ Atelier Art Space | Gallery
Wong Eng Leong, Wong Min Lik, Tey Beng Tze, Lim Keh Soon, Hee Chee Way, and Chong Kim Chiew, all with very strong self-awareness, self motivation, and making art in high spirit; also they are actively involved in local arts scenes. With 5 of them graduated from Malaysian Institute of Art (M.I.A.) - Eng Leong, Min Lik and Beng Tze are from Fine Art Department, major in oil painting; Keh Soon and Chee Way are from Graphic Department, major in Illustration. Kim Chiew graduated from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art in China, major in oil painting.
There are many ways to express yourself; you can become a writer, composer, film maker, etc… Visual artists, in a way, decide to visualize their expressions. As an artist (mind you, this is neither a job title nor a position), you might have to go through a very painful process of inner-searching (not only sitting at the mamak or café to do brain storming, those are designers, just in case you don’t know the difference), before you can find “something” called your own.
The act of visualization utilizes a few common techniques: form, line, colors and planes, and lastly composition. Everybody subconsciously understand them and use them to express their ideas or record down their thoughts or memory but somehow it can be very personal too, with the topic and subject matter chosen by respective artists, they create a new language of their own, a new dialog or a new connection is created between the artist and the viewer through their medium of visualization.
And this is the most interesting part about the visual art, not only one can appreciate the beauty of an art work, one can also learn about the personal language of the artist, break the da vinci code and decipher the hidden message, share the joy and passion of every individual artists.
About the artists:
Min Lik created a series of work that depicts an obscure sense of memories, and led us to confront the inner most expressions that we may have forsaken long ago. These adorable creatures allow us to escape from brutal reality and to seek for spiritual peace and joyfulness.
Beng Tze uses a mixture of media (oil, charcoal, ink, oil pastels, pencil, and acrylic) on his artworks. He loves to paint and draw since childhood. Art is an expression of your experiences and memories for him. In truth, his work is inspired by everything around him, from outsider’s art, to Radiohead, cartoons & toys. He claims: “My works are purely autobiographical; they are exploration of life around me. They are documentations about me as well as the people and things around me. What I really like to preserve is what interests me.”
Keh Soon’s work is open for a varied response and aims to trigger memories and thoughts, especially in environment of today.
Hee Chee Way is interested in photographic and digital art, and likes to insert them into his painting and illustration. He often manipulates printed images and combines them with hand-drawn elements to create collages of reality and fantasy.
Kim Chiew’s art practices provoke us to ‘think (and rethink) about our national developments and aspirations’. He has exhibited widely in Malaysia since 1994 and has held his first solo exhibition, Isolation House at Rumah Air Panas gallery in July 2005. He has also participated in numerous group exhibitions around Kuala Lumpur.
“A genuine map doesn't exist, for there isn’t a type of description which is truly dependable.” - Chong Kim Chiew.

《视象》 - 6艺术家展
6位艺术家，黄英隆、黄敏立、郑明智、林启顺、许志伟与张锦超全都具有强烈的自我意识，主动以及全心投入艺术创作中，另外也积极地参与本地的艺术活动，推动及拓展本地的艺术领域。其中5位艺术家毕业于马来西亚学院黄英隆、黄敏立与郑明智属纯美术系，主修油画，另外林启顺与志伟属广告设计系，主修插画。锦超毕业于广州美术学院油画系。
要表达自我，您能成为一位作家、作曲家、舞台或电影导演等等…视觉艺术家，就是经已做出选择，决定以视觉做为他们的表达、表现的方式。作为艺术家(说实在的，这可不是职称或工作岗位)，在真正找到自己的视觉语言之前，或必须经历一段艰难的自我内在的探索过程(或许您不知道，这不仅只是坐在mamak或café谈天说地，那些是设计师想点子符合顾客要求时干的事)。
视觉拥有许多共同的语言：形式、线条、颜色和结构。大家对它们多少都有一定的理解(或至少知道什么是)，但是它们也可以莫名其妙地变成非常个人的。每位艺术家个人的选择，都会创造出一种新的语言、新的对话和艺术家和观察者之间的新的联系。这就是视觉艺术的最有趣的部分，这不仅是表面上的欣赏，更是理解艺术家的个人语言，破解意象密码，取得隐藏讯息，分享艺术家的喜悦和激情。