19 December 2022
Blk 47 Malan Road, #01-26
Gillman Barracks, Singapore 109444 
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RKFA DOUBLE BILL
What Makes A Mountain
Solo Exhibition by Yeoh Choo Kuan
Another Day
Solo Exhibition by Zac Lee
7 – 19 January 2023
Press Release
Richard Koh Fine Art (RKFA) is pleased to announce two solo exhibitions of Malaysian artists, Yeoh Choo Kuan (b. 1988) and Zac Lee (b. 1968). The exhibitions are titled What Makes A Mountain and Another Day respectively. They are scheduled to run from 7 – 19 January 2023 at Richard Koh Fine Art Singapore, Blk 47 Malan Road, #01-26 Gillman Barracks, Singapore 109444.
What Makes A Mountain
In What Makes A Mountain, Yeoh Choo Kuan explores “Shan Shui”, branching from his Streaming Mountain series where his ‘paint streaming’ technique is employed as the element of “Shui” (water). The individual paintings are configured in an assorted format which are then placed in varying heights. The variation of heights mimic the layers and rhythm of mountain ridges, aligning with
the idea of “Shan” (mountain). Through the process of paint dripping from different directions, the various gestures allow Yeoh the freedom to create and experience dynamics within each scene. To him, the process of making art and a mountain are the same, both challenge one’s perspective in understanding things differently and one must endure trials for things to be made right.
Another Day
In Another Day, Zac Lee presents a body of work that centres around the everyday, depicting the most routine of acts and finding joy within them. Using sombre and bleak hues, this helps further illustrate the paintings’ uneventfulness and normality such as picking up a book put down from the night before, a quick sketching session, a Sunday afternoon. To him, everyday life is valuable — the bad times, the good times, everything in between, and everything that comes before and after.
Today’s ending simply means tomorrow’s beginning. At the works’ core, it is Lee’s way of magnifying these vignettes of life onto the canvases, celebrating their simplicity as he believes that life’s fulfilment is found in these everyday moments.
Artists Biography
Yeoh Choo Kuan (b.1988, Malaysia) lives and works in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
His practice articulates the tension between a spiritual élan and the magnetism of desire, violence and the flesh. The natural landscape and the overload of information are extremes of a spectrum he embraces and represents in all its contradictions. With abstract painting as a strong foundation, he has in the latest years transcended into the conceptual realm of installation. His
explorations of different artistic domains meet a sheer enjoyment of textures, mark making, and disintegration of the pictorial matter.
Zac Lee (b.1968, Malaysia) has a diploma in Fine Arts from the Kuala Lumpur College of Art (1990) and a diploma in Illustration from The One Academy of Design (1993). In 2006, he won a full sponsorship by Freeman Fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center, USA. In 2010, he was selected for the Three Shadows Residency in Beijing, China.
Lee was awarded as the finalist for the Sovereign Asian Art Prize in Hong Kong in 2014, as well as the silver award for UOB Painting of The Year 2020. He has been participating in local and international exhibitions since 2006, including The Peak Magazine’s 25th Anniversary, Galeri Petronas, Kuala Lumpur and ASIA WEEK NEW YORK, Louis K.Meisel Gallery, New York.
He currently resides in Kuala Lumpur, and teaches as a senior lecturer at Dasein Academy of Art, Kuala Lumpur.
Yeoh Choo Kuan
Installation of What Makes A Mountain
2022
Acrylic on linen
Variable dimensions
Yeoh Choo Kuan
Petal Dance (Detail of What Makes A Mountain)
2022
Acrylic on linen
205 x 150 cm
Yeoh Choo Kuan
Barrage Blow (Detail of What Makes A Mountain)
2022
Acrylic on linen
205 x 150 cm
Yeoh Choo Kuan
Branch Poke (Detail of What Makes A Mountain)
2022
Acrylic on linen
150 x 170 cm
Zac Lee
Future Perfect
2021
Oil on canvas
102 x 82 cm
Zac Lee
Love is Love
2021
Oil on canvas
102 x 82 cm
Zac Lee
Companionable Silence
2021
Oil on canvas
92 x 153 cm
TQPR Thailand
Tom Van Blarcom or Nuie Titichayapon
Tel: 0 2260 5820
Email: tom@tqpr.com | nuie@tqpr.com
Founded in 2005, with spaces in Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and Bangkok, RICHARD KOH FINE ART is committed to the promotion of Southeast Asian contemporary art on regional and international platforms. Centred around a core belief in developing an artist’s career, the gallery looks to identify understated, albeit promising practices, and providing it opportunities to flourish. Through its regular exhibition cycles, print & digital publications and cross-border gallery
collaborations, Richard Koh Fine Art engages the art community with the aim of developing regional and intercultural dialogue.
For further information about the exhibition, please do not hesitate to contact:
Wei Fung at +60 16 491 2644 or the gallery at info@rkfineart.com.
Or
TQPR Thailand
Tom Van Blarcom or Nuie Titichayapon
Tel: 0 2260 5820
Email: tom@tqpr.com | nuie@tqpr.com
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