Friday, August 21, 2009

Yeoh Kean Thai

Crossing, a solo exhibition of works done during the Freeman Fellowship and after, by Yeoh Kean Thai, December 1, 2008 - January 30, 2009, at Shalini Ganendra Fine Art, the Private Gallery.
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Yeoh Kean Thai - BEYOND POINTS OF RUST, in Malaysia Tatler, January 2009
- - In his recent solo exhibition entitled ‘Crossing,’ award winning artist Yeoh Kean Thai communicates his primary concerns. Michele Theseira relates his subject matter. Have you ever visited an art gallery or attended an art exhibition where you surf the gallery, walking through the many artworks and suddenly are captivated by a particular one that seems to speak to you? You stop, take in the piece’s impact and by now, your mind wonders into its own domain trying to make some sense of the arresting visual in front of you.... read on

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Yeoh Kean Thai, in ASIAN ART NEWSPAPER, December 2008
- - When Malaysian born Yeoh Kean Thai (b. 1966) won the Phillip Morris Award for Malaysia with a large canvas work, stretched and interwoven within the hand crafted, patiently rusted and irregular metal frame – a fascination with all things discarded and rusted captured the attention of judges and observers. That award was in 1997 and Thai had pursued this aesthetic topic and focus for many years before then, and would continue to do so for many years after... read on

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