When Fahme and I went to Melaka, as we are browsing around Jonker's Street, we came to see the famous Charles Cham outlet named Orangutan. Fahme got himself a black T-shirt while I got a grey one.
| ABOUT CHARLES CHAM | ||
| Charles CHAM started painting at the age of five inspired by the first movie he ever saw. It was a story about an artist with a magic brush and everything he painted became alive. He painted birds and they flew away. He painted fish and they swam away in the river. Finally he painted a woman, she became alive and they fell in love. When Charles came home that day after the movie, he started to draw a portrait of the painter on the floor with some cake powder belonging to his mother. That was his first portrait. After working as an editorial artist for a few years in Kuala Lumpur, he went to France to paint. He became a member of the Association des Artistes Indépendants in Aix-en-Provence and exhibited in the Salon des Indépendants in 1990 and 1991. In 1993, he set up his studio in the old quarter of his hometown in Malacca, Malaysia, and named it The Orangutan House. In 1995, he mounted his solo exhibition “Yin Et Yang Et Cetera” at the Creative Centre, National Art Gallery in Kuala Lumpur. This quickly followed by other exhibitions in the region and internationally. Since then he has exhibited in Singapore, Hong Kong, Bali, Australia, France, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Portugal and Malaysia. Charles CHAM’s works are based on the philosophy of Yin and Yang – the duality of life and the attraction of opposites. He believes that everything has another side, visible or not. “The Yin and Yang paintings are actually multiple paintings. They are in fact two paintings on one canvas, with each other facing in the opposite direction.” “I believe that drawing is thinking and painting is feeling. Therefore, I draw what I think and paint what I feel. As there is no feeling without thinking, there is also no painting without drawing. Sometimes I feel more comfortable calling my works painted drawings rather than just paintings.” Charles CHAM's works are in private art collections in more than 40 countries. More works can be viewed at: www.absolutearts.com/charlescham www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery/artist/details.php?id=482 www.artmajeur.com/?go=artworks/display_list_galleries&login=ccham BIODATA Born 1962 Malacca, Malaysia. SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2005 Ballads, Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong. Ballads II, Art-2 Gallery, Singapore. 2002 Opposite Attraction, Ganesha Gallery, Bali. 2001 The Yin and Yang of Charles Cham, Galerie LeonArt, Basel, Switzerland. Exposição Lusófona, Galeria Municipal Gymnásio, Lisbon, Portugal. Fantasies and Realities, Framed Gallery, Darwin, Australia. 2000 Yellow Culture, Art-2 Gallery, The Substation, Singapore. Yellow Culture, Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong. 1998 Primitive Forms Modern Feelings, Ganesha Gallery, Bali. Recent Paintings, The Orangutan House, Malacca. 1997 Charles Cham: Yin + Yang, Art-2 Gallery, The Substation, Singapore. Yin-Yang Paintings, Framed Gallery, Darwin, Australia. 1996 Recent Paintings, The Orangutan House, Malacca. 1995 Yin Et Yang Et Cetera, Creative Centre, National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur. 1994 Yin-Yang Paintings and Drawings, The Spice Route, Malacca. Nudes and Portraits, The Spice Route, Malacca. 1993 Paintings of Malacca, Air Keroh Expo Centre, Malacca. SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2005 ARTSingapore 2005, Contemporary Asian Art Fair, Singapore. 2002 ARTSingapore 2002, Contemporary Asian Art Fair, Singapore. 2001 TIME: The Watch Has No Numbers, Art-2 Gallery, Singapore. Summer Exhibition, Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong. ARTSingapore 2001, Contemporary Asian Art Fair, Singapore. 2000 ARTSingapore 2000, Contemporary Asian Art Fair, Singapore. 1999 Le Salon For Art Collectors, London. Le Salon For Art Collectors, Paris. Layers of Colors, Ganesha Gallery, Bali. Aku: Portret Diri, Galeri Petronas, Kuala Lumpur. 1998 Different Visions, Ganesha Gallery, Bali. 1997 Trésors International Art Fair, Singapore. 1996 Represented Malaysia in the Océasie art exchange in France: Exposition Océasie, Temple du Goût, Nantes. Exposition Génération Métisse et Océasie, Salon République, Saint-Nazaire. Exposition Océasie, École des Beaux-Arts, Cholet. Exposition Océasie, Université de Nantes, Nantes. Exposition Océasie, Atelier Alain Le Bras, Nantes. 1995 Symphony of Shadows, Les Tableaux, Kuala Lumpur. A Christmas Celebration with Charles Cham and Sambas, Gallerie Taksu, Kuala Lumpur. Cultural Property Asia, Putra World Trade Centre, Kuala Lumpur. 1990 Salon des Indépendants, Aix-en-Provence, France. 1989 Salon des Indépendants, Aix-en-Provence, France. | ||
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