{"id":8001,"date":"2015-11-30T19:57:50","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T11:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.weiling-gallery.com\/contemporary\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=8001"},"modified":"2015-11-30T20:27:37","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T12:27:37","slug":"chin-kong-yee-volker-hamann-eye-llusions-press-release","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/contemporary\/portfolio-item\/chin-kong-yee-volker-hamann-eye-llusions-press-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Chin Kong Yee &#038; Volker Hamann &#8211; EYE-llusions &#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-8001'><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=\"Chin Kong Yee &amp; Volker Hamann \u2013 EYE-llusions \u2013 Works\" href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/contemporary\/portfolio-item\/chin-kong-yee-volker-hamann-eye-llusions-works\/\">works<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a class=\"selected\" title=\"Chin Kong Yee &amp; Volker Hamann \u2013 EYE-llusions \u2013 Press Release\" href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/contemporary\/portfolio-item\/chin-kong-yee-volker-hamann-eye-llusions-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;\">EYE-llusions<br \/>\nChin Kong Yee &amp; Volker Hamann<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; color: #666666; text-align: justify;\">\n<p>In April 2007, Wei-Ling Gallery brings you \u201c(EYE)-llusions\u201d, an exhibition that came about after two artists from opposite ends of the globe, met and realized that although they came from completely different cultures, they somehow shared similar ideologies and outlooks towards their art. They became friends, and decided to create their own cross-over activities in each other\u2019s respective parts of the world. Chin Kong Yee hails from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Volker Hamman from Stuttgart, Germany.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2005, Volker Hamann, a photographer, spent two weeks in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to attend the wedding of a friend and in April 2006, Chin Kong Yee, one of Malaysia&#8217;s most exciting contemporary artist and photographer spent four weeks on a train traveling through the \u201cOld Continent\u201d \u2013 Toulouse, Barcelona, Rome, Berlin, Vienna.<\/p>\n<p>In this exhibition, we encounter the documentation of two journeys: Chin Kong Yee\u2019s paintings of his second visit to Europe and the photographs of Hamann\u2019s first visit to Malaysia. Continuing on from a two man show held in Stuttgart, Germany in May 2006, this exhibition once again brings together these two artists but this time in Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p>Ricarda Geib the curator of the exhibition in Germany wrote:<br \/>\n&#8220;Two artists, two ways of life, and two cultures are brought into dialogue with one another. Both are freed from a logical, argumentative structure but are instead juxtaposed against each other in a bid to see thorough the mundane into the essence of the experience that each encountered on their journeys&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Volker W. Hamann\u2019s visit to Malaysia in the winter of 2005 did not result in pleasant photographs. His images confront us with another reality, unveil polar tensions, and sensitively capture a fascinating picture of the exotic. We have the tendency to view a journey as a rapid change to a more or less arbitrary place. One gets onto a plane and exchanges one place for another. In former times, traveling was a radical experience that not only demanded a readiness for adventure, but also organizational skill and patient preparation. Even when a journey was sometimes characterized by hardship and privation, the enticement of the fully new and unexpected outweighed the negatives. Travel always serves as a useful comparison of the known with the unknown, the familiar with the strange. A way to journey as a person, to renew one\u2019s body and soul.<\/p>\n<p>Chin Kong Yee\u2019s paintings display his continuous search to capture his own experience of a time and place. The linear structure of his images appears to mock all traditional rules of painting. His compositions testify to a high level of confidence, in which the artist frees himself from his everyday vision. They are photographic montages, he delivers parcels of reality. With a surrealistic spirit, he works with multiple perspectives and superimposes objects and layers (so that the borders between fantasy and reality are blurred). His particular concentration is on the city square and street as anonymous places of constant motion and meeting. His view is that of a distant observer, or he sets himself in the middle of the brightly lit city. In this way, he succeeds in dramatizing and intensifying his subject, aggressive \u2013 also in terms of color \u2013 and exciting at the same time, just as in the city itself.<\/p>\n<p>Stuttgart with its art museum and K\u00f6nigsbau appears as a place without clear contours, stairs and facades are distorted, passers-by appear out of the blue, are comical figures, who \u2013 like on St. Peter\u2019s Square \u2013 are interwoven in each other. Bicycles resemble bent lanterns, objects are not subject to gravitational laws. The light gives the pictures a warm climate, a specific aura that fuses the real and the fictional together. Through layering and reflection, a specific type of photography develops that reminds one of the film medium. The computer-assisted editing is not concealed, rather it is used in a virtuosic manner: the images capture everything within the artist\u2019s field of vision, as if he could simultaneously see above, below, right, and left. Comparable to a fish-eye lens, the photos show a spherical perspective that presents everything as bizarre and almost soft, as if it could melt away. Occasionally, someone from the crowd looks directly at the camera, perhaps unnoticed and unintentional, and breaks the illusion of the photographer as the unobserved observer.<\/p>\n<p>A high degree of self-reflection is characteristic of both artists \u2013 no clich\u00e9s, no \u201ctypical\u201d pictures. They confront us with changing realities and portrait the image of the stranger in their artworks. But this stranger is never just one image, it is many images, because the image of the stranger is also an image of one\u2019s self.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>\u201c(EYE)-llusions\u201d features at Wei-Ling Gallery from 16th April 2007-10th May 2007. Wei-Ling Gallery is located at No.8 Jalan Scott, Brickfields K.L. 50470<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em> Opening Hours: Mon-Fri, 12 noon &#8211; 7pm.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em> Saturdays 11am &#8211; 5pm.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em> Tel: 03-22601106\/0178877216 Fax: 03-22601107<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em> Email: esmelimweiling@yahoo.com<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em> www.weiling-gallery.com<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em> Admission is free.<\/em><\/span><\/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 title=\"Read opening remarks by Dr. Volker Wolf, Director, Goethe Institute\" href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/contemporary\/portfolio-item\/read-opening-remarks-by-dr-volker-wolf-director-goethe-institute\/\"><strong>Read opening remarks by Dr. Volker Wolf, Director, Goethe Institute<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a title=\"\u201cKlang Valley Streets: Painting with Photos\u201d by Su Aziz\" href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/contemporary\/portfolio-item\/klang-valley-streets-painting-with-photos-by-su-aziz\/\"><strong>&#8220;Klang Valley Streets: Painting with Photos&#8221; by Su Aziz<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a title=\"Artworks on Display a visual treat by Ivan Loh\" href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/contemporary\/portfolio-item\/artworks-on-display-a-visual-treat-by-ivan-loh\/\"><strong>Artworks on Display a visual treat by Ivan Loh<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CuRRENT\u00a0|\u00a0PAST works\u00a0|\u00a0press release EYE-llusions Chin Kong Yee &amp; Volker Hamann In April 2007, Wei-Ling Gallery brings you \u201c(EYE)-llusions\u201d, an exhibition that came about after two artists from opposite ends of the globe, met and realized that although they came from completely different cultures, they somehow shared similar ideologies and outlooks towards their art. 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