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ARTIST'S STATEMENT
Charles
Cham
Charles Cham started painting at the age of five inspired by the first
movie he ever saw. It was a story about an artist with a magic brush
and everything he painted became alive. He painted birds and they flew
away. He painted fish and they swam away in the river. Finally he painted
a woman, she became alive and they fell in love. When Charles came home
that day after the movie, he started to draw a portrait of the painter
on the floor with some cake powder belonging to his mother. That was
his first portrait.
After
working as an editorial artist for a few years in Kuala Lumpur, he went
to France to paint. He became a member of the Association des Artistes
IndÈpendants in Aix-en-Provence and exhibited in the Salon des IndÈpendants
in 1990 and 1991. In 1993, he set up his studio in the old quarter of
his hometown in Malacca, Malaysia, and named it The Orangutan House.
In 1995, he had his first solo exhibition "Yin Et Yang Et Cetera" at
the Creative Centre of the National Art Gallery in Kuala Lumpur. This
quickly followed by other exhibitions in the region and internationally.
Since then he has exhibited in Singapore, Hong Kong, Bali, Australia,
France, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Portugal and Malaysia.
Charles Cham's works are based on the philosophy of Yin and Yang - the
duality of life and the attraction of opposites. He believes that everything
has another side, visible or not. "The Yin and Yang paintings are actually
multiple paintings. They are in fact two paintings on one canvas, with
each other facing in the opposite direction."
He is also a strong believer in the art of drawing and in the simplicity
of forms. "Simplicity is the most profound stage one can achieve, in
art and in life." "There is no painting without drawing. For a painting
to be strong, it has to come from a drawing. Drawing is the basis of
it all - the mother of art. Drawing is the idea, the thought; painting
is the emotion, the expression. I believe that drawing is thinking and
painting is feeling. Therefore, I draw what I think and paint what I
feel. As there is no feeling without thinking, there is also no painting
without drawing. Sometimes I feel more comfortable calling my works
painted drawings rather than just paintings."
Charles Cham's works are in the collections of art collectors in more
than 30 countries.
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