For Those who have been killed - Vincent Leow

This exhibition is held at Chan Hampe's Shophouse 5. It opened on the 3rd December 2015 with an open house on the 5th and the artist talk will be on the 12th of December 2015.

He presented 4 types of works dealing with the armed conflicts, terrorism, wars and other 'unnecessary' loss of lives. The first type was the words painted on canvas with different colours and backgrounds. The works dealing with different events like Peshawar Massacre and Gaza deaths. He showed 4 of this style of work. Another was 2 works of words on American army surplus stretchers, one had a bone (resin) and another wooden 'AK-47'. The words were quotes from people involved in these conflicts. He also presented a 'coffin' holding his old works of art and was presented against one of his revived paintings which he did in 1990 and managed to salvage. He reworked it and mounted it onto a new canvas. A juxtaposition of old/dead and new/alive. The last one was a collage of stuff he collected and this was done many years ago after a stint in Paris. Over the collage he painted the French flag over it. It seem a poignant reminder of the French shootings recently and how Facebook profiles were overlaid with the French flag in support of the French.

The works were well selected, thought through and gelled well with the theme. The stretcher works had the most impact and easily caught your eye.

Points for collectors: Buy rating. However the pieces were big and not for everyone. I guess he would have sold more if he did the stuff in a smaller format. Prices are fair for a prominent artist his age.