{"id":11382,"date":"2017-05-20T10:32:06","date_gmt":"2017-05-20T02:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/?page_id=11382"},"modified":"2024-11-27T22:44:57","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T14:44:57","slug":"chin-kong-yee-biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/artists\/chin-kong-yee-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Chin Kong Yee &#8211; Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-3va0cxi-d4420b753f232c3a83694b89f8564ed5\">\n.avia-section.av-3va0cxi-d4420b753f232c3a83694b89f8564ed5{\nbackground-color:#f2f2f2;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div id='av_section_1'  class='avia-section av-3va0cxi-d4420b753f232c3a83694b89f8564ed5 main_color avia-section-small avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_section  avia-builder-el-first  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-11382'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><h1 style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 30px; font-family: Open sans;\">Chin Kong Yee<\/h1>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/main><!-- close content main element --><\/div><\/div><div id='artists-title'  class='avia-section av-2t42c7q-ac4a3f1d054dac9ca21fae9eecdb7a8b main_color avia-section-default avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_section  avia-builder-el-last  avia-bg-style-scroll  container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-11382'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n<div class='flex_column av-2n8rlme-918b12883d54769f74e5b0d50e9e76e8 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-3  el_before_av_textblock  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=\"Chin Kong Yee \u2013 Overview\" href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/artists\/chin-kong-yee-overview-2\/\">overview<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Chin-Kong-Yee-CV.pdf\">biography&nbsp;(CV)<\/a> |&nbsp;<a title=\"Chin Kong Yee \u2013 Exhibitions\" href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/artists\/chin-kong-yee-exhibitions\/\">exhibitions<\/a>&nbsp;| <a title=\"Chin Kong Yee \u2013 Publications\" href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/artists\/chin-kong-yee-publications-2\/\">Publications<\/a> | <a title=\"Chin Kong Yee \u2013 Press and News\" href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/artists\/chin-kong-yee-press-and-news-2\/\">press and news<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-l2zli-e0134573f97f2ce3a9f1c5d812b46d58\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-l2zli-e0134573f97f2ce3a9f1c5d812b46d58{\nheight:30px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-l2zli-e0134573f97f2ce3a9f1c5d812b46d58 hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-5  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: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Chin Kong Yee (B.1973)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">B. 1973, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia<br \/>\nLives and works in Selangor, Malaysia<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since graduating from the Central Academy of Art in 1990, Chin Kong Yee has had an illustrious 25 year journey as an artist, which has seen him traverse the world for inspiration for his work. Chin Kong Yee\u2019s paintings display his continuous search to capture his own experience of a time and place.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chin Kong Yee\u2019s works are warped in perspective, with a fish-eye lens effect to them. By combining the present, past and future through a depiction of two perspectives (realistic and unrealistic) his paintings have an exciting, dramatic edge about them that draws the viewer into his space. Chin Kong Yee seeks his audience to feel and see what he has experienced in the creation of his artwork. He has labelled his style as Actuality Accorded Painting (AAP), whereby, in painting and portraying an object, it has to have existed, and have undergone the process of being real, in order for it to be translated onto the canvas as art.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are a couple of facets to the enjoyment of Chin Kong Yee\u2019s works. First, and the most evident, is the visual pleasure that his paintings bring. Saccharine yellows flirt with lush cobalt blues on the canvas, and swirling landscapes send the eyes on a kaleidoscopic viewing journey that has become the artist\u2019s signature offering. Less obvious, though, are the subtle nuances that make up each work. There are the personal tales and precise moments in time when the scene was captured, and philosophical musings that simmer beneath the surfaces. So, despite their seemingly benign facades, Kong Yee\u2019s works are complex creatures. And the artist, a critical filter of life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">His painterly style hinges greatly on European painting legacies, and his use of photographic tools throw his practice into more recent times. This decisive, unrepeatable moment \u2013 the photographic punctum or punctuation, as described by Henri Cartier-Bresson \u2013 is exactly what Kong Yee captures in his works, and like a flower that blooms, each scene is a compression of thousands of moments, stories, and elements rolled into one. Kong Yee\u2019s compositions are anything but linear. There\u2019s some logic then, in Kong Yee\u2019s adoption of the Golden Ratio. A mathematical principle that constitutes two rectangular shapes and a golden spiral, Kong Yee uses its principles to lay out the formal properties of his works.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kong Yee aims to encapsulate as many sensorial experiences into his works as he can. Indeed, Kong Yee presents a very keen and observant view of the world. He always has, and as an artist, plays the role of a \u2018fly on the wall\u2019 and a secret eye on the streets. With years of experience charting life unravelling before him, he has developed highly-tuned sensitivities to the temperaments of the weather, how these may have an effect on people\u2019s moods, and even considers real-world developments like the fluctuating oil prices, headlines that inevitably seep beneath the conscious human skin. In many ways, he ruminates all of this to try to bring us back to the very moment when the flower first \u2018bloomed\u2019 before his eyes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The elasticity of time is mentioned by the artist in descriptions of his work, and he hints that the warmer shades of his palette play a role in his past, while the cooler blues are a reference to the future. Perhaps Kong Yee\u2019s own words sum it up best. \u201cI have been a practising artist for 20 years now. From \u2018Undulating Spaces\u2019 till today, I have been on a continuous exploration of space and time, and I have finally figured out that time is not linear. The past, present, and future are all happening simultaneously. The past continues to change as our state of mind changes, in turn affecting how our future plays out.\u201d There\u2019s hope and promise in those words, and a palpable belief that nothing is permanent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With his 2022 solo exhibition at Wei-Ling Gallery titled &#8216;#tomorrow&#8217;, Kong Yee pushed the boundaries by experimenting with wearable paintings, video work, and performance, all while staying true to his signature artistic expression. His work was a testament to the meticulous detail and thoughtful approach applied to every aspect of its creation \u2013 from the choice of materials to the immersive experience and interaction within the exhibition space. The concept of presenting the past, present, and future was vividly reflected through the different periods of time explored in this exhibition. By depicting flooded scenes from Venice, Bali, and the Klang Valley due to rising sea levels, Kong Yee uncovered the beauty amidst the grittiness of these scenarios. Personally affected by environmental catastrophes occurring one after another, he emphasised the urgent need for collective action to address this pressing issue, highlighting the potential disappearance of our lands if we fail to unite our efforts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chin Kong Yee has a strong following of local and international collectors who appreciate the expansive and detailed vistas captured on his canvases. His works can be found in numerous private and public collections such as The National Visual Arts Gallery, Shearn Delamore, Wong &amp; Partners, The Aliya and Farouk Khan Collection, HSBC, Anika Insurance Brokers, and the United Overseas Bank. Chin Kong Yee has also exhibited in multiple international art fairs and exhibitions in China, France, Indonesia, Singapore, Korea, Taiwan, Germany, Romania and Pakistan.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><\/div><\/section>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chin Kong Yee overview&nbsp;|&nbsp;biography&nbsp;(CV) |&nbsp;exhibitions&nbsp;| Publications | press and news Chin Kong Yee (B.1973) B. 1973, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Lives and works in Selangor, Malaysia Since graduating from the Central Academy of Art in 1990, Chin Kong Yee has had an illustrious 25 year journey as an artist, which has seen him traverse the world [...]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":23,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11382","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11382"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24129,"href":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11382\/revisions\/24129"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}