{"id":7340,"date":"2015-10-28T13:24:45","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T05:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/?post_type=portfolio&p=7340"},"modified":"2015-10-28T13:35:30","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T05:35:30","slug":"love-on-canvas-by-dennis-chua","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/portfolio-item\/love-on-canvas-by-dennis-chua\/","title":{"rendered":"Love on Canvas by Dennis Chua"},"content":{"rendered":"
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New Straits Times, 20 July 2008
\nLove on Canvas
\nby Dennis Chua<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
\"\u201cNo<\/a>

\u201cNo Parking\u201d (left) and \u201cGood Year For The Roses\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

THE art exhibition \u201cPainted Stories, Conditional Love\u201d by Anurendra Jegadeva is the artist\u2019s first solo exhibition since his return from Australia in 2005.<\/p>\n

\"\u201cFor<\/a>

\u201cFor The Love Of God\u201d.<\/p><\/div>\n

The exhibition from Aug 11 to Sept 4 at Wei-Ling Gallery in Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur gathers nearly 20 new works from the past year. They find the artist \u201cstill baffled\u201d about the world around him.<\/p>\n

Addicted to news, sitcoms, reality television and pulp fiction, the artist references the world around him in his paintings, touching on a broad range of issues as if he were surfing channels.<\/p>\n

From Tibet to detention-without-trial in Guantanamo Bay, from Punjabi love songs to the recent general election in March, from vampire brides to little children with their dogs, the artist has used a mix of nostalgia and romanticism tinged with an enjoyable dose of cynicism to tell his stories.<\/p>\n

Love is merely their back-drop as \u201clove\u2019s conditions are much more interesting\u201d.
\n\u201cConditional Love\u201d sees a departure from his predisposition to the organised picture planes within the brightly-coloured, luscious canvases of his previous works.<\/p>\n

Among the interesting works at the exhibition is \u201cNo Parking\u201d where a devotee performs both his religious and civic duties during the annual Thaipusam celebration, \u201cFor The Love Of God\u201d is a series of paintings which takes to task people who go to war in the name of religion and narrow nationalism, \u201cPlayful Priests\u201d depicts two temple devotees playing a game of charades and \u201cGood Year For The Roses\u201d is a tribute of sorts to iconic soul group The Alleycats.<\/p>\n

Wei-Ling Gallery is located in Jalan Scott, off Jalan Tun Sambanthan, Kuala Lumpur. It is open from noon to 7pm from Monday to Friday and from 10am to 5pm on Saturdays. Call 03-2260-1106, 03-2260-1107 or 012-302-5302.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Straits Times, 20 July 2008 Love on Canvas by Dennis Chua \u201cNo Parking\u201d (left) and \u201cGood Year For The Roses\u201d THE art exhibition \u201cPainted Stories, Conditional Love\u201d by Anurendra Jegadeva is the artist\u2019s first solo exhibition since his return from Australia in 2005. \u201cFor The Love Of God\u201d. The exhibition from Aug 11 to [...]","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"portfolio_entries":[17],"class_list":["post-7340","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","hentry","portfolio_entries-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/7340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/7340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7342,"href":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/7340\/revisions\/7342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7340"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_entries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_entries?post=7340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}