Full title: Chua Ek Kay: After the Rain/Wu Guanzhong: Beauty Beyond Form

Completion: 2015

Duration: temporary; 6 months

Project role: senior exhibit designer

The dual show covering the lives and works of the two artists instrumental to modern Chinese ink painting draws parallels and contrasts between Chua Ek Kay’s and Wu Guanzhong’s lives and aesthetics through exhibition design that complements and highlights the artists’ individual styles in subtle and sensitive ways. The design allows visitors to experience the fine points of each artist’s painting techniques and subjects via a carefully planned spatial layout, where Chua Ek Kay’s and Wu Guanzhong’s artistic journeys are weaved together through structural, lighting and graphic components.

Each of the galleries provides insights into the artists’ methodologies through central feature elements, like softly back-lit exhibition panels and feature walls that frame views towards key artworks. The overall exhibition and branding work together to allow the two shows to make a strong visual statement, whether the artists are showcased on their own or side by side.