Richard Koh Fine Art (RKFA) Kuala Lumpur presents Wong Perng Fey’s Equilibrium, a selection of the artist’s most recent abstract paintings. The exhibition will be held simultaneously in Richard Koh Fine Art Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and ART SEASONS Gallery, Beijing, China.

Moving away from evident figuration, Perng Fey’s new abstract works are informed by his experience of living in Beijing. The ancient metropolis’s urban landscape and inner-city exterior structures and features such as rough walls, corroded cement constructions and graffiti marks that are created slowly over time by natural forces and human intervention are some of the main inspirations.

These tactile, richly coloured works are created through the acts of image erasure and layering and visually echo the façades of the urban built environment as well as the process of palimpsest. The building-up of surfaces and layers of paint as well as their gradual subtraction allude to the historical development of cities and to the passing of time. Composed of reflective enamel and oil paint on linen, these gestural works, apart from being richly coloured reflect the colours and light of their surroundings thus their formal appearance are slightly altered when placed in different environments.

About the artist:

Wong Perng Fey (b. 1974, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) is an experimental and versatile painter that graduated from the Malaysian Institute of Art under the school’s scholarship in 1998. He has mounted a number of solo exhibitions in Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and China and was awarded the Artist Residency in Rimbun Dahan, Kuang, Malaysia in 2002. His works are in many prominent public collections such as the National Visual Arts Gallery, Bank Negara Malaysia Museum and Art Gallery and Petronas Gallery. He lives and works in Beijing, China.

Perng Fey’s gestural paintings of figures, nature, and natural vistas fluctuate between abstraction and figuration with an acute sensitivity of colors, layers and textures. His body of work, consisting of a diverse subject matter, ranging from traditional landscape and portraiture to abstraction exhibits a talented and confident brush play. The canvas, becoming more than a picture plane, is transformed into a ‘stage’ for the documentation of actions and mistakes. It records gestures and becomes a space for registering mental states.

-Richard Koh Fine Art

Image: © Wong Perng Fey
Courtesy of the artist and Richard Koh Fine Art