Selected images from recent work : a set of 20 hand-printed postcards.

A$250 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

[Brighton, UK?] : [the artist], [1975]. Complete set of twenty hand-printed postcards (plus a duplicate of no. 18), as issued in the original plastic sleeve, with a printed title card editioned and signed by the artist in pencil 8/50 C.H. Cheo ; in very fine condition. A completely unrecorded set of hand-printed postcards from very early in the career of one of the most important figures in Asian contemporary art. These were almost certainly produced by the artist to promote his work around the time of his graduation from the printmaking programme at Brighton Polytechnic in 1975, prior to his enrolment at the Royal College of Art in London. No other complete example traced. Cheo Chai-Hiang (b. 1946, Singapore–) is an artist who pioneered Singapore s modern art scene. In 1975, he famously wrote that local art during that period was dominated by the production of “beautiful pictures” that were lacking in conceptual content. He perceived art as a thought process and urged the transformation of local realist art to one that redefined methods of artistic representation. He popularised interactive art in Singapore in the 1980s and 1990s with his work Gentleman in Suit and Tie (1988), in the days when such methods of engaging the audience in an exhibition were considered unconventional. Education Upon the completion of his secondary education, Cheo took up a place at the Department of Modern Languages and Literature at Nanyang University in 1964. He chose not to study at the Nanyang

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