Lot 104
WONG PERNG FEY
b. Kuala Lumpur, 1974
PALM OIL ESTATE, 1998
Oil on canvas
187cm x 200cm
PROVENANCE
Private collection, Penang.
ESTIMATE RM 9,000 - 16,000
PRICE REALISED RM 16,800 |
The windswept vast vistas of an oil palm plantation with the purplish dark hues of dusk and with visibility reduced is a piece of Wong Perng Fey’s contemporary landscape. What is contemporary or so ‘contemporary’ about this new landscape is difficult to defined, for it is certainly not so much the style and more an adjective, with the accent on the approach, design and construction with new sensibilities, but it is something ever open to change. As opposed to simple plein air exercise, it is more structured maybe but with an eye for the atmospherics. The serrated ranks of the closely planted oil plant trees form an interesting play of light which offers some forms as well as contrast, taking up a third of the whole work, while the top is the sky with a large expanse of heavy clouds virtually snoozing on the tree-tops.
Perng Fey has relocated to China but keeps the art crowd here informed about his artistic developments and preoccupations through exhibitions at Richard Koh Fine Arts in Kuala Lumpur (Examples New Life in 2008, Recent Works in 2010, Transitions in 2011 and Equilibrium in 2014). In the interim, he managed to slip in exhibitions outside Malaysia: Jakarta, at the Vivi Yip Art Room in 2009 in an exhibition called Role Play; in Sydney, in Slot Gallery in a show titled, I’ll Wait for You To Come Back in 2010; and in Beijing, China, namely at 798 Art Zone (The Other Shore) in 2012 and Art Seaons (Equilibrium, 2014); and in Hong Kong, titled Tonight The Light Is Almost Sweet, 2015. His first solos were at Valentine Willie Fine Art (Kuala Lumpur), now defunct: 2000; New Landscape, 2002; Works 2003-2004, 2004; Still View, 2005; and New Life, 2008. In 2011, he took part in the Beirut Art Fair and the Art Expo Malaysia, and in 2013, Art Stage Singapore. He graduated with a Diploma from the Malaysian Institute of Art, Kuala Lumpur, in 1998,and was given the Rimbun Dahan residency in 2002. |