Lot 055
SIUND TAN
b. Kedah, 1981
BIOMIN, 2013
Signed 'SIUND' (lower left)
Oil on canvas
73cm x 89cm
PROVENANCE
Private collection, Kuala Lumpur.
ESTIMATE RM 2,500 - 4,500
PRICE REALISED RM 2,747
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The things girls keep as pets could be a subject for some thesis study. The little duckling (or is it a chick? If so, Chick, Chick, if you get the drift) prised from its mother and siblings thoroughly out of place, if not miffed, in a human living-room what more in the palm of a girl. Is the girl asking permission to keep it as a pet? Small as it is, it is certainly what every one’s attention is drawn to, unless you find the girl unusually fascinating.
Siund Tan’s paintings are based on childhood memories and dreams, but with the newly represented Present in a surrealistic twist. Siund Tan, real name Tan Hong Shiung, was one of the star winners of the biennial Malaysian Emerging Artists Award, hosted jointly by HOM Art Trans and Galeri Chandan, in 2011. The other winners were Chong Ai Lei, Ng Swee Keat, Muhammad Syahbandi Samat and Sun Kang Jye. In 2011, he was also a finalist in the da Dun Fine Arts exhibition in Taichung, Taiwan. He had his first solo titled SOMETIME at the G13 Gallery in Selangor in 2014. Siund Tan obtained his BFA in Graphic Design at the Curtin University of Technology in Australia in 2004. |