Description
It's truly a bold move by Wong Perng Fey to tackle this subject of a grassy patch in nocturnal ambience with glimpses from a dim light from the lower left. With the tall stalks genuflecting left and right and some bowing slightly and extremely, it looks like a dance out of the Shakespearean Midsummer’s Night Dream. Playing on pattern and design and light, tones and perspective, the work comes off as nearly abstract. It’s a kaleiscopic of Nature within Nature, offering a magical moment often missed by someone taking it for another of an ordinary scene in Nature.
Perng Fey has relocated to China but keeps the art crowd here informed about his artistic developments and preoccupations through exhibitions at Richard Koh Fine Arts in Kuala Lumpur (Examples New Life in 2008, Recent Works in 2010, Transitions in 2011 and Equilibrium in 2014). In the interim, he managed to slip in exhibitions outside Malaysia: Jakarta, at the Vivi Yip Art Room in 2009 in an exhibition called Role Play; in Sydney, in Slot Gallery in a show titled, I’ll Wait for You To Come Back in 2010; and in Beijing, China, namely at 798 Art Zone (The Other Shore) in 2012 and Art Seaons (Equilibrium, 2014); and in Hong Kong, titled Tonight The Light Is Almost Sweet, 2015. His first solos were at Valentine Willie Fine Art (Kuala Lumpur), now defunct: 2000; New Landscape, 2002; Works 2003-2004, 2004; Still View, 2005; and New Life, 2008. In 2011, he took part in the Beirut Art Fair and the Art Expo Malaysia, and in 2013, Art Stage Singapore. He graduated with a Diploma from the Malaysian Institute of Art, Kuala Lumpur, in 1998,and was given the Rimbun Dahan residency in 2002.