PRIVATE SELLING EXHIBITION

Chang Fee Ming:
Weaving The World In Watercolour

17 June – 18 August 2015 | HONG KONG

Born in 1959 in a coastal town in East Malaysia, Chang Fee Ming is one of Asia's foremost artists working in the medium of watercolour. Richly detailed and vibrantly coloured paintings of life in idyllic rural scenes have established his reputation as a sensitive observer of culture and watercolourist extraordinaire. Over the last two decades he has developed an impressive body of work depicting the stories of the rural people, culture and landscape of countless places in Asia and beyond in his signature realist style.

Presenting a range of Chang Fee Ming's older and more recent works, this Christie's Private Sales exhibition demonstrates the artist's ability to present the seemingly familiar yet foreign cultures around us in a new light, reinforcing the importance of cultural understanding. This is the artist's first solo exhibition in Hong Kong.

The exhibition brings together more than 70 individual artworks, including over a dozen recent large-format watercolour paintings; a broad selection of iconic older works; and rare drawings, sketches and mail art from the artist's personal collection that spans his extensive travels.


Exhibition Highlights

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  • Chang Fee Ming

    The Last Juruselam
    watercolour on paper, diptych
    56 x 38 cm. (22 x 15 in.); & 56 x 76 cm. (22 x 29 7/8 in.)
    Painted in 2012


  • Chang Fee Ming

    Cukup Berat? (Heavy Enough?)
    watercolour on paper
    56 x 76 cm. (22 x 29 7/8 in.)
    Painted in 2014


  • Chang Fee Ming

    Life Line
    watercolour on paper
    76 x 56 cm. (29 7/8 x 22 in.)
    Painted in 2014


  • Chang Fee Ming

    The Tale of the Krue Se Mosque & Lim Ko Nio
    watercolour on paper
    56 x 76 cm. (22 x 29 7/8 in.)
    Painted in 2014


  • Chang Fee Ming

    Meditating in a Red Landscape
    watercolour on paper
    76 x 56 cm. (29 7/8 x 22 in.)
    Painted in 2014


  • Chang Fee Ming

    Mother Earth: Remembering WWII
    watercolour on paper
    76 x 56 cm. (29 7/8 x 22 in.)
    Painted in 2015


  • Chang Fee Ming

    Bollywood, nonfiction...
    watercolour on paper
    56 x 76 cm. (22 x 29 7/8 in.)
    Painted in 2015


  • Chang Fee Ming

    Family
    watercolour on paper
    56 x 76 cm. (22 x 29 7/8 in.)
    Painted in 1987


  • Chang Fee Ming

    A Story in Stone
    watercolour on paper
    76 x 56 cm. (29 7/8 x 22 in.)
    Painted in 1993


  • Chang Fee Ming

    Lu Gang, Morning... Nostalgia (Taiwan)
    watercolour on paper
    38 x 56 cm. (15 x 22 in.)
    Painted in 1986


  • Chang Fee Ming

    Garden Under the Sea (Bali, Indonesia)
    watercolour on paper
    29.5 x 22 cm. (11 5/8 x 8 5/8 in.)
    Painted in 1992


  • Chang Fee Ming

    Road to the Source (Qingha, China)
    ink on envelope
    14 x 19.5 cm. (5 1/2 x 7 5/8 in.)
    Painted in 2005


Exhibition Information

Chang Fee Ming: Weaving The World In Watercolour

The James Christie Room
22nd Floor, Alexandra House
18 Chater Road, Central, Hong Kong

VIEWING TIMES 17 June – 18 August
Mon – Fri, 10am – 5:30pm

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