Rio Dell” Arsenal Bridge (2021) 絵画 Chin Kong Yee によって

Views of Venice during the high tide are painted, not just on canvas, but also natural-tanned leather; a material that he has been exploring and working with over the past 3 years. This choice of medium, once again, relates to the floods that he has been experiencing, and how he decided to navigate around it as an artist. As he explained, “I personally had experienced quite serious flash floods a few times, and from what I learned, all of the artworks made from paper would not survive, and canvas paintings will get a few water stains. I then thought of a more suitable and resistant material; leather.” Compared to canvases, leather is also easier to roll and stored at higher areas of the home, in order to avoid the floods. Since his exploration of leather work, Kong yee has also been experimenting with the idea of ‘wearable art’, in which he would cut and stitch pieces of the leather based on a pattern before painting on its surface, enabling his paintings to be worn. His signature style of adopting a fish-eye lens perspective and combining the past, present, and future through his “Actually Accorded Painting” (AAP) technique, is yet again present in these recent paintings on leather.

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Rio Dell” Arsenal BridgeVeniceAcrylic PaintingWearable ArtItaly