{"id":12158,"date":"2017-10-06T14:43:18","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T06:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/?post_type=portfolio&amp;p=12158"},"modified":"2017-10-06T14:43:18","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T06:43:18","slug":"choy-chun-wei-tectonic-traces-press-release","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/dev08.mm-sb.com\/web04\/portfolio-item\/choy-chun-wei-tectonic-traces-press-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Choy Chun Wei &#8211; Tectonic Traces &#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-12158'><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 '   ><p>\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-2  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first  '><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=\"Choy Chun Wei \u2013 Tectonic Traces \u2013 Works\" href=\"http:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/portfolio-item\/choy-chun-wei-tectonic-traces-works\/\">works<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a class=\"selected\" title=\"Choy Chun Wei \u2013 Tectonic Traces \u2013 Press Release\" href=\"http:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/portfolio-item\/choy-chun-wei-tectonic-traces-press-release\/\">press release<\/a>\u00a0|<\/h3>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/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-4  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-5  el_after_av_hr  avia-builder-el-last  first flex_column_div '   ><p><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;\">Tectonic Traces<br \/>\nBy\u00a0Choy Chun Wei<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; color: #666666; text-align: justify;\">\n<p><i>\u2018Life is beautifully questioned in a sense, but I also question how it\u2019s arranged.\u2019<\/i><\/p>\n<p>To arrange and rearrange, to construct and deconstruct, to connect and break, to cut and paste \u2013 the importance of Choy Chun Wei\u2019s pieces stretch within his actions, privileging dynamic large-scaled collages. This series marks a progression from his previous work, notably through\u00a0the process of assembling more reliefs and creating greater overlaps. Pushing boundaries with through the use of tectonic materials, the works exhibited in\u00a0<i>Tectonic Traces<\/i>\u00a0accentuate the complexities and contradictions inherent in life\u2019s fragments.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u2018Graphic design produces many effects around us these days.\u2019<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The artist\u2019s current practice took its roots from graphic design, which soon evolved into dimensional works, portraying references to architecture. Juxtapositions of omnipresent geometrical forms such as rectangles and circles \u2013 the latter being a recent addition to his works, particularly notable in the piece\u00a0\u201cCity of Buttons\u201d\u00a0(2017) \u2013 are symbolic receptions of today\u2019s living spaces, electronics and other accessories that surround us day-to-day.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u2018I\u2019m constructing my own organic in the society.\u2019<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Sensible to the tensions among the solid and the organic, each piece constantly illuminates two opposing characteristics: between supermarket product codes and fluid doodles of anonymous portraits, between straight lines and handwritten jottings of people met during his sojourn in Hong Kong. Thus, the word \u2018corporate\u2019 frequently appearing in the titles of his works, seems to deliver two interpretations: on one hand \u2018designed corporation\u2019 \u2013 symbol of consumerist environment, on the other hand \u2018togetherness\u2019 \u2013 a human quality essential to society.<\/p>\n<p>These strains and junctures are emphasized in\u00a0\u201cRambling\u201d\u00a0(2017), as evident through the technique of newspaper collage. Extracts of actual headlines are cut and arrayed on canvas following nothing but the artist\u2019s intuition, forming new meanings in the process. Overlaying these linear arrangements of words, the artist applied paint and sand in a vigorous manner \u2013 giving birth to robust and burnt effects \u2013 so as to break the messages.<\/p>\n<p>The indicated piece illustrates our frustration with the information world, which in fact is not physically existent \u2013 the same way as the rectangular forms that can be spotted in most of his collages mimic the multiplying screens of our electronic devices.<\/p>\n<p>In this rapidly changing world, the artist tags along, while continually seeking peace and settlement through the process of making art.<\/p>\n<p>Chun Wei also touches on the celebrity phenomena and how it has\u00a0commodified\u00a0human beings.\u00a0As humans climb ladders to success in great speed, their humanity slowly becomes abstracted. This notion is explored in\u00a0\u201cFuture Stars\u201d\u00a0(2017), where images of famous footballers echo the artist&#8217;s original sentiment and further shed light on how a sport, as symbolic and communal as football is, has also become abstracted and commodified.<\/p>\n<p>Dealing with information and facts, at the same time interrogating the state of mind of human beings, Choy Chun Wei envisages how our identity is transforming into numbers and codes. Through twelve pieces displayed during his third solo exhibition at Wei-Ling Contemporary and Wei-Ling Gallery, following \u2018Kaleidoscopic Landscapes\u2019 (2007) and \u2018Here and Now\u2019 in (2011), he seems to question: Is our identity no longer defined by anything but our surroundings?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Tectonic Traces will be showing from 19th October to\u00a030th November 2018 at Wei-Ling Contemporary.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Wei-Ling Contemporary is located at Lot No RT-1 6th Floor The Gardens Mall, Lingkaran Syed Putra, 59200 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Admission hours are Tuesday &#8211; Sunday 11am &#8211; 7pm.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Please call +603 2282 8323 \/ +603 2260 1106 or email: noel.weilinggallery@gmail.com for more information.<\/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-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-7  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  '  style='font-size:14px; '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.satulingkar.com\/single-post\/2017\/10\/18\/Keseharian-Sebagai-Landasan-Inspirasi-Seni-Kontemporer\">Keseharian Sebagai Landasan Inspirasi Seni Kontemporer &#8211; Satulingkar.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Dialogue-with-Choy-Chun-Wei.pdf\">Dialogue with Choy Chun Wei by Amanda Ariawan<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.star2.com\/culture\/2017\/11\/07\/choy-chun-wei-collages-wei-ling-tectonic-traces\/\">Choy Chun Wei\u2019s collages contemplate the cut and paste aspects of real life by Qishin Tariq &#8211; Star 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bfm.my\/choy-chun-wei-collages-of-tectonic-traces\">Collages of Tectonic Traces by Soon Heng Lim &#8211; BFM<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Tectonic-Traces-The-Edge.pdf\">Architectural Thoughts by Mae Chan &#8211; The Edge<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Art-Republik.pdf\">Reframing by Kelvin Chuah &#8211; Art Republik<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Tectonic-Traces-PDF.pdf\">Click to view e-booklet<\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"post-title left\"><\/h1>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":12283,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"portfolio_entries":[4],"class_list":["post-12158","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_entries-exhibitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev08.mm-sb.com\/web04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/12158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev08.mm-sb.com\/web04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev08.mm-sb.com\/web04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev08.mm-sb.com\/web04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev08.mm-sb.com\/web04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/12158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev08.mm-sb.com\/web04\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev08.mm-sb.com\/web04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev08.mm-sb.com\/web04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12158"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_entries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev08.mm-sb.com\/web04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_entries?post=12158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}