That's all there is - PG Lee and Yeo Tze Yang

This exhibition is held from 29th July to 7th August 2016 over at That Spare Room, which is The Fabulous Baker Boy cafe's spare room. And this cafe is located at Foothills at Fort Canning, a stone's throw from Cape of Good Hope Gallery.

This exhibition is a collaborative exhibition between the two artists. You can read about the concept behind the exhibition at their blog and other sites on the net. You could even purchase the exhibition book for $15. Nicely printed book.

Anyway back to what I have to say;

If you have been following my blog you would already have heard of Yeo Tze Yang's name and you would know he is a figurative painter. He has been actively painting and his keen. And from the works he presented,  I am glad to say that he has definitely improved and his work is getting better. I like the colour palette and he has found another means to produce dynamism and good flow in the painting.

PG Lee presented more conceptual works. A photograph of a family member propped up against a wall, a wax box, a wax cubicle and 2 fishing rods. Nice works. But I felt there was a disconnect between his works when presented in the show. But I do like the fishing rods.

Not easy to pair a conceptual / installation artist and a painter, they tried their best I guess. The painting of the person by the ocean went well with the fishing rods.

Points for collectors: Yeo Tze Yang - buy rating. His skill has improved, now he has to go to art school. (The debate of whether an art education is necessary or not is a perennial one. But I feel an art education is necessary, at least a diploma. If one doesn't want to go down that route then one should go for residencies. But being a figurative painter, he should really go train in Italy or do a residency there. Not only to improve one's skill but also one's knowledge of the medium which one uses.) PG Lee - neutral rating. For me I think conceptual artists must do brilliant, provocative, fresh and edgy works, because the concept is what they are judged upon.  So we have to see what other works he produces to push the limit. (PG Lee pushed a ball around for SCOUT, the Cambodian Svay Sareth dragged a steel ball around his country; wrt wax works, recently have seen another artist also using the paraffin wax in his works and propping up a photograph isn't groundbreaking either)