"Precipice - KL 72", Cityscapes At Night, Oil painting on board, Ready to hang

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Nicholas Choong
"Precipice - KL 72", Cityscapes At Night, Oil painting on board, Ready to hang
2020

About the Item

Particolare (/par·ti·co·là·re/) is an Italian word which means particular, peculiar, and special, as well as an Italian guitarist Stefano Barone’s 2008 album title. Nicholas Choong, an emerging Malaysian artist, gives the name “Particolare” for his first solo show at Art WeMe Contemporary Gallery. It is not only inspired by Stefano Barone’s music which gives him strength during the journey of being an artist, but also a motto where he encourages himself to become a special one in art world. Nicholas Choong creates cityscapes that contains his emotional responsiveness of living in Kuala Lumpur. Choong portraits city sceneries with dense and rich colors. Buildings are made of bold, scraping and slapping paints with palette knives. He applies cool colors in his city landscapes that reveal cold and detached connections in a city. Lights of signs, buildings, cars headlights and reflections in rain illuminate the city. Paints drip onto the canvases become different intermittent gleam of city lights. In Nicholas’s paintings, Kuala Lumpur is a city of lights that is full of energy and passion. However, there is also loneliness and uncertainty behind a prosperous city. Choong’s paintings are reminiscent of Paul Cézanne who was a master of post-impressionism and had inspired Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and modernism masters henceforth. Cézanne stated “We must not paint what we think we see, but what we see”. Choong said in his statement that “Through painting, I’ve observed things about myself and how I view the world”. Therefore, his paintings are unlikely to tell people what a metropolitan city does, such as Kuala Lumpur look like, instead he features an artist’s sentiment of what he feels about the city. Nicholas Choong, as well as Cézanne, spends a lot of time modulating colors. For the artist, this is a moment to make conversations with his canvas, asking questions of what the painting needs and wanted the artist to do. From constant conversations between the artist and his canvas, an artist’s concept is concretely formed in a painting.

Creator:
Nicholas Choong (1977, Malaysian)
Creation Year:
2020
Dimensions:
Height: 36 in (91.44 cm)Width: 36 in (91.44 cm)
Medium:
Oil,Board
Movement & Style:
Abstract
Period:
21st Century
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Kuala Lumpur, MY
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU160728448362