{"id":3338,"date":"2015-07-05T16:18:22","date_gmt":"2015-07-05T08:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.weiling-gallery.com\/contemporary\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=3338"},"modified":"2017-04-06T13:41:43","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T05:41:43","slug":"wong-chee-meng-fortune-of-lives-press-release","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/contemporary\/portfolio-item\/wong-chee-meng-fortune-of-lives-press-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Wong Chee Meng &#8211; [F]ortune of Lives &#8211; Press Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='artists-title'  class='avia-section av-av_section-142ff43b7600746a6e970fde5cf91c57 main_color avia-section-default avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  avia-bg-style-scroll  container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-3338'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n<div class='flex_column av-av_one_full-2a9015ff38129c418a3f2eafba3e9512 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-1  el_before_av_hr  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div '   ><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><h3 class=\"p1\" style=\"font-family: 'eb garamond'; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase; text-align: left;\"><a title=\"EXHIBITIONS \u2013 CURRENT\" href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/contemporary\/exhibition-current\/\">CuRRENT<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a class=\"selected\" title=\"EXHIBITIONS \u2013 PAST\" href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/contemporary\/exhibition-current\/exhibition-past\/\">PAST<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_hr-a6de236e6c183bbbd700292deacd2b52\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-av_hr-a6de236e6c183bbbd700292deacd2b52{\nheight:20px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-av_hr-a6de236e6c183bbbd700292deacd2b52 hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_textblock  '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><h3 class=\"p1\" style=\"font-family: 'eb garamond'; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase; text-align: left;\"><a title=\"Wong Chee Meng \u2013 &#091;F&#093;ortune of Lives \u2013 Works\" href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/contemporary\/portfolio-item\/wong-chee-meng-fortune-of-lives-works\/\">works<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a class=\"selected\" title=\"Wong Chee Meng \u2013 &#091;F&#093;ortune of Lives \u2013 Press Release\" href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/contemporary\/portfolio-item\/wong-chee-meng-fortune-of-lives-press-release\/\">press release<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_hr-a07f7596b1fca85f6595a75d593069df\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-av_hr-a07f7596b1fca85f6595a75d593069df{\nheight:40px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-av_hr-a07f7596b1fca85f6595a75d593069df hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_one_full  '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class='flex_column av-av_one_full-2a9015ff38129c418a3f2eafba3e9512 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-6  el_after_av_hr  avia-builder-el-last  first flex_column_div '   ><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '  style='font-size:14px; '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><span style=\"font-family: open sans thin; font-size: 25px; line-height: 24px; letter-spacing: 1px; color: #333333;\">[F]ortune of Lives<br \/>\nWong Chee Meng<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; color: #666666; text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Chance or luck (especially good luck) as an arbitrary force affecting human affairs -The Oxford English Dictionary<\/p>\n<p>Wei-Ling Gallery is pleased to present [F]ortune of Lives, an exhibition of new works by contemporary Malaysian artist, Wong Chee Meng.<\/p>\n<p>Featuring paintings on canvas and sculptural works in mixed media, this exhibition is the artist\u2019s second solo exhibition with the gallery.<\/p>\n<p>[F]ortune of Lives serves as an exploration of the profound influences of the historical and cultural sedimentation of Ancient China.<\/p>\n<p>Over thousands of years, through their wisdom and imagination, ancient Chinese have created wide-ranging auspicious elements to represent their longing and pursuit of richer, more prosperous lives. This was achieved through illustrations combined with the implementation of metaphors, analogies, homonyms and puns.<\/p>\n<p>Those devoted to this way of life hold firm to the belief that they hold the key to attracting positive changes in their lives through the act of praying for fortune, wealth and health. Sometimes creating imagined ideal worlds to \u201cescape from the real world\u201d (Cao, 1993) and an example of this would be the design and creation of Chinese Gardens which are usually built to imitate ideal worlds, arranged with natural and manmade objects to create immortal scenes. These gardens reveal much information such as values, practices, preferences, beliefs as well as cultural influences. Simply put, \u201cChinese garden is a visualisation of a spiritual world\u201d (Lin &amp; Chien, n.d.).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCompositional elements and principles in creating Chinese gardens like \u2018spatial contrast\u2019, \u2018visible vs invisible\u2019, \u2018hinting and metaphor\u2019, \u2018scatter vs mass\u2019, \u2018twists &amp; turns\u2019, and \u2018depth and grounds (layers)\u2019 are techniques we can adopt in painting. Therefore, derived from design principles of the Chinese garden which incorporate design methods, compositional principles and themed settings of natural and artificial elements, virtual settings in the form of paintings using prosperous objects to create imaginary worlds and scenarios accompanied with a set of 3D objects in mixed media will be displayed in this show.<\/p>\n<p>These \u2018treasures\u2019 composed of Chinese characters, living objects and elements of nature symbolise luck, blessings, wealth, longevity et cetera. These icons are usually concise, elegant, explicit and artistic, and have been used in various forms found today including sculptures, paintings, posters, furniture, textiles and paper cutting. The characteristics I researched from these forms are reflected in my artworks. Symbolic and iconic auspicious objects can be seen on the surface layer; while underlying layers with juxtaposition and fragmentation of elements can be observed. Each artwork is a beacon of hope, at the same time like a themed setting in a garden with a concept based on the contemporary issues of today\u2019s world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wong Chee Meng (b. 1975) lives and works in Kuala Lumpur. His works have been shown in the Czech Republic, Malaysia, Macau, Singapore, and South Korea.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[F]ortune of Lives will begin showing on 5th May and will continue until 30th May 2015 at Wei-Ling Gallery.<br \/>\nWei-Ling Gallery is located at No. 8, Jalan Scott, Brickfields, 50470, Kuala Lumpur.<br \/>\nPlease ring 0322601106 or email weiling.shaz@gmail.com for more information.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_hr-9a4b51fdc01b8b13bd201ffe5054f031\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-av_hr-9a4b51fdc01b8b13bd201ffe5054f031{\nheight:35px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-av_hr-9a4b51fdc01b8b13bd201ffe5054f031 hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-8  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_textblock  '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/contemporary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pubpdf-fortuneoflives.pdf\"><strong>View online catalogue<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/contemporary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Fortune-of-Lives-essay.pdf\">Read essay by Jenny Gebauer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CuRRENT\u00a0|\u00a0PAST works\u00a0|\u00a0press release [F]ortune of Lives Wong Chee Meng Chance or luck (especially good luck) as an arbitrary force affecting human affairs -The Oxford English Dictionary Wei-Ling Gallery is pleased to present [F]ortune of Lives, an exhibition of new works by contemporary Malaysian artist, Wong Chee Meng. 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