Mirare by Chingkai

PUBLISHED March 17th, 2015 03:16 am | UPDATED June 11th, 2020 12:35 pm

Singapore-based artist Ching Kai’s latest exhibition, Mirare, is a reflection of social evolutions, human behaviours and how occurrences from the past and present confront one another. Featuring 12 new works of acrylic on canvas with a monochromatic palette, this exhibition is set to bring the audience to a realm beyond colours. ‘… it gives the audience a chance to interpret the colours themselves. A sea of greys sometimes robs the works of an immediate visual arrest, but that is precisely what I am pursuing – to allow instead the forms become the message, and let the textures speak,’ explains Ching Kai.

Trained in his formative years under renowned artists, Mr Lim Kang Kee and Mr Iskandar Jalil, Ching Kai continues to develop and hone his skills in art . Through the years of painting and experimenting with different techniques , his works exude subtle complexities through various textures and finishing, which are skillfully employed in these 12 works. Ching Kai’s work was first unveiled to the local art scene in 2008 at his first solo exhibition Encounters 1: Seascapes. The exhibition was an artistic representation of his experiences at sea when he was in the Navy. In Mirare, Ching Kai delves further his techniques to realise concepts and bring depth to his art. ‘This exhibition charts my growth as an artist. I want my art to be in a constant dialogue with its audience, and to evoke different emotions for people at their different life stages.’

Mirare by Chingkai is being held on Thursday, 2 April from 7pm to 11pm at Artspace@222.

To visit the Facebook event page, please click [here](https://www.facebook.com/events/930030657031092/).