Singaporean artist Yeo Hoe Koon is celebrating 60 years of being an artist with a tour across Southeast Asia. The artist will be accompanying an exhibition of almost one hundred of his abstract oil paintings and Chinese ink paintings. The first show will be at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Singapore, and from there he will tour Indonesia, China, Taiwan, and Malaysia. Yeo himself is excited at the prospect of showing his life’s work to an audience throughout the region.
Yeo, who is in his 80s and recovering from a recent heart operation, is eager to celebrate his lifetime of achievements. He started his career in Paris in the 1960s and hasn’t looked back since. He has tens of solo exhibitions under his artistic belt, though this is the first show that is a celebration of his full body of work. The show will include masterpieces from those early days and span through later works, including after he returned to Singapore to start a family and be a full-time artist. The influences of Europe are on display in Yeo’s work, and he is among a special group of artists who returned to his place of birth to further influence the art scene in the country.
Overall, the structure of the show encompasses two parts. One part will be his early work, heavily influenced by his time in Europe, and featuring his abstract oil paintings. One such painting is a large gestural piece full of warm golds, oranges, and yellows. Blue streaks and shapes highlighted with yellow-tinged whites recall the sky, and the warm colors and title of the piece, “Golden Earth,” could be reminiscent of a sunset landscape anywhere in the world — or the artist’s imagination. The other part of the show will treat his modern ink paintings. Because so many of the works are on loan from private collections, only a few will be for sale during the international tour.
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To learn more about Yeo Hoe Koon’s career and the upcoming tour for his 60th anniversary as an artist, go to http://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/arts/singapore-artist-marks-60-years-with-asian-tour.
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