Goh Chai Seng: Some Truth

Tomio Koyama is back! Really happy they are back and Gillman Barracks have not lost any tenants. Tomio Koyama Gallery was supposed to pull out in Feb 2014. However, they are back! And according to them, they will be focusing on South East Asian Artists. Happy happy!

The current exhibition is Goh Chai Seng : Some Truth, running from 19/4/14 till 18/5/14.

Anyway Goh Chai Seng (Malaysian artist) is a good artist. His works are very nice and powerful. The paintings presented are mainly two styles. Abstract raw style which was nice and powerful. As usual, 2D flatten images doesn't do justice to the painting, you really have to view it in person. His understanding of colour, depth and balance are excellent. The symbolism is really up to the observer to understand it. Also he presented some drawings a bit like Chinese art style but with an Indonesian feel. Think one of the drawings was called Taoism or something like that.

Fish Becomes Hill

The other style would be large oil works painted with many symbols and filled to the brim. The oil paintings reminded me of Batuan Art. The work that was hanging in the office room, with the female body and the crocodile amongst other things was a bit disturbing, but that's how the artist flows and doesn't really say much about his works. But the wild tribal art style was heavy with symbolism and we also felt that there was some Indonesian feel to the art.He is definitely technically excellent.

Funny Believer

If you notice the bowl says Bak Kut Teh, so his symbolism is an important part of his art and that one has to figure out for oneself. 

Batuan Art for comparison

Anyway Mr Tomio Koyama has a great eye, so it's good to go and check out the things the gallery presents.

Please do check the exhibition out!

Points for collectors : Good artist. Great artworks. Nicely priced.
This paintings are a mixture of recent to older works. The content is not easily relatable but great for the serious collector.
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