Chua Ek Kay

Download or read book Chua Ek Kay written by Low Sze Wee and published by National Gallery Singapore. This book was released on 2015 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chua Ek Kay is regarded as one of Singapore’s leading ink practitioners, celebrated for his distinctive visual vocabulary that bridges Chinese ink painting traditions and Western aesthetics. The catalogue, Chua Ek Kay: After the Rain, accompanies an exhibition at National Gallery Singapore that gathers a collection of works presenting momentous inflections in over three decades of the artist’s prolific practice. Essays illuminate Chua Ek Kay’s approaches to ink painting and underscore his contributions to its development in Singapore. The catalogue also includes a heretofore unpublished manuscript interview by Chua discovered posthumously in his study, as well as reflections by Mrs Chua Ek Kay.