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      • Eng Hwee Chu (b. 1967) Black Moon Drawing 2, 1997
        Mar. 19, 2023

        Eng Hwee Chu (b. 1967) Black Moon Drawing 2, 1997

        Est: RM13,000 - RM20,000

        The Black Moon series, numbering only 14 large works and done between 1989 and 1992, catapulted Eng Hwee Chu into local art history with her Magic Realism approach to issues on faith, the feminine self and identity, tradition and heritage, social hierarchy, taboos and expectations. It was Black Moon that won her the Minor Award in the Salon Malaysia 3 in 1991 and the Minor Award in the Young Contemporary Artists competition (Bakat Muda Sezaman) in 1992. The powerful messages in the series also factored greatly in the decision in her selection for the 2nd Asia-Pacific Triennial in Brisbane, Australia, in 1996. For the daughter of a grocer in Batu Pahat, Eng Hwee Chu paid great dividends in her decision to study Art, graduating from the Malaysian Institute of Art, and later teaching there briefly. Her early success includes her Black Moon series, 1st Prize in the Malaysian edition Philip Morris Asean Art Award in 1994, with her Cry Freedom. She was also selected for the Art in Southeast Asia (Hiroshima, Japan, 1997) and the Women In Between: Asian Women Artists 1984-2012 in Fukuoka and Tochigi in Japan (2012). In Henry Butcher Art Auction December 2021, her record auction price was set when Black Moon 13 (1992) was sold for RM252,000.

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      • Eng Hwee Chu (b. Johor, 1967) Black Moon 13, 1992
        Dec. 05, 2021

        Eng Hwee Chu (b. Johor, 1967) Black Moon 13, 1992

        Est: RM150,000 - RM180,000

        The Black Moon series, numbering only 14 large works and done between 1989 and 1992, catapulted Eng Hwee Chu into local art history with her Magic Realism approach to issues on faith, the feminine self and identity, tradition and heritage, social hierarchy, taboos and expectations. It was Black Moon that won her the Minor Award in the Salon Malaysia 3 in 1991 and the Minor Award in the Young Contemporary Artists competition (Bakat Muda Sezaman) in 1992. The powerful messages in the series also factored greatly in the decision in her selection for the 2nd Asia-Pacific Triennial in Brisbane, Australia, in 1996. Black Moon 13 represents one of her iconic works in the series. Eng inserts herself as the protagonist, bare and emotionally red, stripped of pretence and of the need for conformity, here astride a hobby-horse, hovering over her past happening in a flash, on the chequered top of a fortification of life with endless barricade, and surveying all. A blackened alter ego assumes the role of a guardian, with a lighted oil lamp on one hand. A new life, more sedentary and prosaic despite all that jazz perhaps, awaits her in a narrow partition of images on the left. The panoply of faux Asian classicism and quaint symbolisms have made Eng into a major woman artist in her 50s. For the daughter of a grocer in Batu Pahat, Eng Hwee Chu paid great dividends in her decision to study Art, graduating from the Malaysian Institute of Art, and later teaching there briefly. Her early success includes her Black Moon series, 1st Prize in the Malaysian edition Philip Morris Asean Art Award in 1994, with her Cry Freedom; and in 1996, she was selected to represent Malaysia in the 2nd Asia-Pacific Triennial in Australia. She was also selected for the Art in Southeast Asia (Hiroshima, Japan, 1997) and the Women In Between: Asian Women Artists 1984-2012 in Fukuoka and Tochigi in Japan (2012).

        Henry Butcher Art Auctioneers
      • Eng Hwee Chu (b. 1967) Black Moon 11, 1991
        Nov. 03, 2019

        Eng Hwee Chu (b. 1967) Black Moon 11, 1991

        Est: RM90,000 - RM160,000

        Eng Hwee Chu’s works revolves around the heart of social life, touching on tradition and change, religion and rituals, the manmade and the natural environment. This work, No. 11, from her celebrated Black Moon Series – No. 12 won a Minor Award in the 1992 Young Contemporary Artists competition – has the half-naked female protagonist in a lotus garden shielding her eyes with her hand over the prospects of environmental degradation. Looks are beguiling, with doves and elephants cavorting and the bells pealing, but behind her is half-hidden a sinister dark shadow. The Black Moon Series comprised 14 large works done between 1989 and 1992. Though then not her husband yet, fellow artist Tan Chin Kuan hovers around her oeuvre, maybe offering solace and encouragement. “The black moon is the real moon, the lighted moon is the glory of the sun… Under the black moon, people reveal their true colours. When the moon is bright, everyone will be sober and diligently present their positive self.” - Eng Hwee Chu, in Contemporary Feminist Artist (The Great Empire of Art Project). Eng Hwee Chu’s biggest triumph was when her Cry Freedom won 1st Prize in the Malaysian-level Asean Art Award in 1994. She had a stake in the Young Contemporary Artists competition, of which her husband Tan Chin Kuan was a double Major Award winner (once jointly) when she won the Minor Award in 1992. She was one of Malaysia’s representatives in the 2nd Asia-Pacific Triennial in Brisbane in 1996. She was also selected for the Art In Southeast Asia (Hiroshima, Japan, 1997) and the Women In Between: Asian Women Artists 1984-2012 in Fukuoka and Tochigi in Japan (2012). Hwee Chu, Chin Kuan and their three children had a joint exhibition called ‘A Family Of Artists’ at the Annexe Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, in October 2013. She graduated from the Malaysian Institute of Art (1986-1989) and taught there for a spell.

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      • ENG HWEE CHU (b. 1967) BLACK MOON 13, Acrylic on canvas
        Apr. 23, 2017

        ENG HWEE CHU (b. 1967) BLACK MOON 13, Acrylic on canvas

        Est: RM30,000 - RM55,000

        Eng Hwee Chu’s Black Moon Series comprising 14 big works from 1989 to 1992, depicts human reality and the soul-searching of the artist herself. “The Black Moon is the real moon, the lighted moon is the glory of the sun… Under the black moon, people revealed their true colours. Once darkness cast over them under the black moon, feelings of depression, anxiety, fear, loss, desolation, will emerge following the disarming of their alertness.” (Contemporary Feminist Artist: Eng Hwee Chu, published by Tan Chin Kuan, 2013). This Black Moon 13 is a major work from her series. Another piece, Black Moon 12, won her the Minor Award (Painting) in the coveted Young Contemporary Artists (BMS) competition in 1992, is in the collection of Singapore Art Museum. Her works, a dreamlike autobiographical capsule couched in Magic Realism, have her as the progenitor in a flaming-red nude body, the nudity to denote the personal freedom, although she is surrounded by a castle-like Grecian barricade where her early life-history is fragmentarily re-enacted. A black shadow archetype, her shadow, sticks close by. Eng Hwee Chu obtained her Diploma from the Malaysian Institute of Art from 1986-1989. She later taught there. She held her first solo at the National Art Gallery’s Creative Centre in 1995. Her biggest achievement was when her work, Cry Freedom (now collection of National Art Gallery, KL) won the 1st Prize in the Malaysian component of the Philip Morris Asean Art Award in 1994. In 1996, she was selected by the organiser’s curatorial team for the 2nd Asia-Pacific Triennial in Brisbane. In 1997, she was selected to take part in Art In Southeast Asia: Glimpses Into The Future (Hiroshima, Japan), and in 2012, the Women In Between: Asian Women Artists 1984-2012 in Fukuoka and Tochigi in Japan. In October 2013, Hwee Chu, Chin Kuan and their three children held a joint exhibition called A Family Of Artists at the Annexe Gallery, Kuala Lumpur.

        Henry Butcher Art Auctioneers
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