Lot 063
GAN TEE SHENG
b. Johor, 1984
FAMILY, 2010
Signed and dated 'Gan Tee Sheng 10' (lower right)
Oil on canvas
120cm x 120cm
PROVENANCE
Private collection, Kuala Lumpur.
ESTIMATE RM 4,000 - 7,000
PRICE REALISED RM 31,360
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Titled ‘Family', this Gan Tee Sheng work is obviously not classified G (General Audiences), not even PG-13, in the movie rating system. Probably ‘Adults Only.’ But that is the reality in what sometimes happen within the four walls of a family or families, and the nagging feeling is not helped by the lecherous-looking botak (bald) man in a tie. This is a work from Tee Sheng’s Dark Domestic Drama (DDD), one of the two trajectories of his figuratives, the other dealing on more sober depicting of the forlorn elderly.
Gan Tee Sheng’s stature is unique: He is the only double Malaysian winner of the highly coveted UOB Painting of the Year Award, first the Major Award (Established Artist category) in 2013 and the Gold Award in 2016. He made a breakthrough when he was selected as one of the five winners of the Malaysian Emerging Artists Award in 2011. He had taken part in the International Art Expo Malaysia from 2013 to 2016. His international (participation) “cap” is impressive: Fukuoka Asian Museum residency (2014), Art Gwangju 2015, Art Kaoshiung (2015, 2016), Art Stage Singapore and Art Busan(both 2016). And he’s only 33. He made a huge impact in his first solo, Withdrawn, at Taksu Kuala Lumpur, in 2014, on forlorn old people, and his first artist’s residency was the six-month HOM’s Adopted Artist-in-Residence (A-Res). Tee Sheng was educated at the Dasein Academy of Art, Kuala Lumpur. |