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The exhibition features forty works by modernist Singapore artist Cheong Soo Pieng, many of them revealed to the public for the first time. It promises to be the first and most significant overseas survey exhibition of the artist ever since his passing away in 1983.
As one of the most significant of overseas Chinese artists active in the 20th century, Cheong Soo Pieng was a ceaseless innovator, never settling for an established style. In the process, he developed a highly iconic personal visual vocabulary, both reflective of a modernist internationalist bent and a commitment to depictions of the Nanyang region he found himself settling in as an émigré Chinese artist.
Arising from his training and knowledge of the inherited traditions of the School of Paris and traditional Chinese ink painting, Cheong Soo Pieng synthesised the aesthetic paradigm of Chinese and Western art, moving between oil painting and traditional Chinese ink painting seamlessly, straddling the spectrum of abstraction and figuration throughout his oeuvre.
Arising from his training and knowledge of the inherited traditions of the School of Paris and traditional Chinese ink painting, Cheong Soo Pieng synthesised the aesthetic paradigm of Chinese and Western art, moving between oil painting and traditional Chinese ink painting seamlessly, straddling the spectrum of abstraction and figuration throughout his oeuvre.