ART EXPO 2016 IS ON FROM 20 THURSDAY TO 23 SUNDAY OCTOBER. ADMISSION IS FREE. OPEN FROM 11AM TO 7.30 PM EXCEPT ON SUNDAY 23 OCTOBER 2016 FROM 11 AM TO 6 PM
PRICES OF ART RANGE FROM RM 250 TO RM 3 MILLION
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VENUE; MATRADE EXHIBITION AND CONVENTION CENTRE
THERE ARE 60 INDIVIDUAL BOOTHS WITH EXHIBITORS FROM 30 COUNTRIES.
DATUK VINCENT SIM TIAK CHOO, FOUNDER OF ART EXPO MALAYSIA, LEADS HIS VIP ROYAL GUEST AND PATRON OF ART EXPO MALAYSIA, HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE CROWN PRINCE OF PERLIS, DYTM TUANKU SYED FAIZUDDIN PUTRA IBNI TUANKU SYED SIRAJUDDIN JAMALULLAIL TOWARDS THE STAGE
HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE CROWN PRINCESS OF PERLIS,DYTM TUANKU HAJJAH LAILATUL SHAHREEN AKASHAH KAHLIL IS ACCOMPANIED BY DATIN MARY SIM
THEIR HIGHNESSES THE CROWN PRINCE AND CROWN PRINCESS OF PERLIS, HITTING THE GONG TO OPEN THE VIP NIGHT OF ART EXPO MALAYSIA 2016
THEIR ROYAL HIGHNESSES THE CROWN PRINCE AND CROWN PRINCESS OF PERLIS GRACIOUSLY SIGNED THE VIP PREVIEW NIGHT PLAQUE FOR DATUK VINCENT SIM TIAK CHOO
THEIR ROYAL HIGHNESSES GRACIOUSLY CONSENTED TO ACCEPT A TOKEN OF APPRECIATION FROM DATUK VINCENT SIM TIAK CHOO OF ART EXPO MALAYSIA
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE CROWN PRINCE OF PERLIS GRANTS DATO KEE HUA CHEE THE HONOUR OF BEING PHOTOGRAPHED WITH HIM AND EVEN NOTES DATO KEE'S RINGS SEEM TO GET BIGGER AS THE YEARS GO BY!
HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE CROWN PRINCESS OF PERLIS KINDLY GRANTS PERMISSION TO DATO KEE HUA CHEE TO BE PHOTOGRAPHED WITH HER AND NOTES HE WEARS HIS PORTRAITS INSTEAD OF HANGING ON THE WALL
DATIN MARY SIM, HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE CROWN PRINCESS OF PERLIS AND DATO KEE HUA CHEE
Art Expo Malaysia Plus 2016
ABOUT
ABOUT ART EXPO MALAYSIA PLUS
The Art Expo Malaysia (AEM) is celebrating its 10th edition in 2016 as the longest running international art fair in Southeast Asia, a rainbow package of art from the East and West, from the South and Central America, apart from Central Asia.
This year, the art fair runs from October 20 to 23, at Matrade Exhibition and Convention Centre (MECC), featuring 60 established and reputable art galleries from 30 countries, exhibiting 2,000 pieces of artworks (including paintings, sculptures, installation and photography) under one roof.
The Art Expo Malaysia Plus is an upgraded art fair in standards and procedures with a spruced up presentation. Also, ensuring that more reputable artists, bona-fide better run galleries and artwork stipulations get priority.
AEM was started in 2007 by art philanthropist Datuk Vincent Sim Tiak Choo, with the dream of having an art fair to bring together some of the finest artworks from different parts of the world to Kuala Lumpur, for public viewing. Back then, exhibition spaces were allocated to artists in exchange of artworks donation.
In 2008, his son Sim Pojinn who is a business consultant stepped in to lead, revamped the entire business model and organisation, bringing AEM a big leap forward. His brother Sim Polenn subsequently joined in 2009. They understand the importance of an art fair to the development of the visual arts industry, thus, together they upgraded AEM in meeting international expectations, made linkages with more than 80 media with outreach across 62 countries, and instrumental in getting participation of reputable galleries at home and abroad, to sustain AEM as a successful annual art fair until today!
Some of the highlights of AEM since the inaugural edition in 2007 are:
1) 2007: From the outset, the AEM was branded as an Art Expo with a Heart. It innovated the Special Tribute Pavilion to honour Living Legend Artists. The first honoured were the Malaysian batik painting founder and pioneer Dato’ Chuah Thean Teng (1912-2008), Malaysia’s Chinese art grandmaster Prof. Chung Chen Sun, Taiwan’s national art treasure Prof. Li Chi Mao and South Korea’s veteran artist Jang Soon-Up.
2) 2008: A Grandmasters Pavilion showcased works of the Malaysian pioneer artist Yong Mun Sen, China’s Chinese brush titans Liu Haisu and Li Keran, as well as France’s China-born Zao Wouki, from private collections. The Special Tribute Pavilion went to another great Malaysian artist, Datuk Syed Ahmad Jamal, who showed a sampling of his masterpieces. Datuk Syed Ahmad Jamal died on July 30, 2011, aged 81, leaving a strong legacy of his contributions in every aspect of art.
3) 2009: The AEM went big for the first time on Art from China, to mark the 35th anniversary of Malaysia-China diplomatic relations. The centerpiece was the Digital Art Installations by the China Digital Association. Miao Xiaochun’s giant video presentation of his world-acclaimed Microcosm, adapted from Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights, was a huge draw. Other e-artists featured were Bu Hua, Feng Jiangzhou, Feng Mengbo, Tan Liqin and Zhang Xiaotao.
4) 2010: The AEM opened up a new flank of art-cultural showcase themed as Embassy Row, featuring artists from Argentina, Cuba and Ecuador. The Embassy Row has expanded over the years, showcasing 1 selected artists by the participating embassy.
5) 2011: Yue Minjun, Fang Lijun and Wang Guangyi, three of the leading China contemporary artists from the Post-1989 New Art Generation, headlined the China Pavilion. The AEM organisers had secured loan of the original artworks from the Today Art Museum in Beijing, at great insurance premiums. In addition, Chen Yifei’s masterpiece was exhibited at MAD Museum of Art & Design booth.
6) 2012: The sixth edition of AEM saw Spain’s ATR Gallery, a stalwart of the AEM since its inception in 2007, breaking out with the Joan Miro’s special suite of etchings / aquatints from thisPassage De L’Egyptienne series which proved hugely popular. ATR Gallery is also known for its works of Pablo Picasso, Zao Wouki, Antoni Tapies and the emerging Spanish sculptor Jesus Curia.
7) 2013: An important curated exhibition called Great Malaysian Contemporary Art (GMCA), presented by Core Design Gallery, featured numerous large-size artworks (about 3 – 4 meter) by top Malaysian contemporary artists such as Zulkifli Yusoff, Hamir Soib, Ahmad Fuad, Muthalib, Eng Hwee Chu, Anuar Rashid, Husin Hourmain etc, whose seminal works are very well sought after in the art market.
8) 2014: The Year of ‘Chino-serie’ where an adjacent twin building was turned into a Grand China Pavilion featuring 101 artists from 10 art centres / coteries / institutions / academies on Contemporary and Neo-Traditional expressions. This was to mark the 40th anniversary of Malaysia-China diplomatic relations. The AEM also launched SPY (Special Project for the Young) in an exhibition called Breaking Down The Wall featuring new, unusual and radical works by 12 artists including one pair. There was also Version 2 of the Great Malaysian Contemporary Art Show with its sensitively critical works.
9) 2015: Rebranded as AEM Plus, the 2015 art fair extravaganza took up the opposite 2000sqm hall. The traditional and contemporary art practices in the fair offered good glimpses of the trends. Among the 70 galleries that took up space, 20 were from Malaysia which offered a blend of exciting new talents and established artists. Works from a private collection highlighted The CoCa Collection, while a charity entitled, Remembering Ranau, in collaboration with Xin Art Space was in aid of victims of the June 5, 2015, earthquake in Mount Kinabalu in Sabah. Again, 11 selected embassies got to showcase their artistic talents.
HANNS SIM WITH HIS MOTHER DATIN MARY SIM WAITING FOR ARRIVAL OF THE CROWN PRINCE AND CROWN PRINCESS OF PERLIS
SIM-PLE FAMILY! SIM POJINN, DATUK VINCENT SIM TIAK CHOO, DATIN MARY CHOO, SIM POLENN AND SIM POHANN
THE SIM FAMILY FOUNDED AND RUN ART EXPO MALAYSIA. CONGRATULATIONS ON THEIR 10th ANNIVERSARY!
DATO DZULKIFLI MAHMUD, CEO OF MATRADE WITH CORINNA TAN AND DERELLA
NICE LEGS
CORINNA TAN, DERELLA, HAROLD KOAY ANDN SIM POLENN
DATO KEE HUA CHEE WITH MONUMENTAL ALBINO CROCODILE BACKPACK
JULIAN CHIN, DATIN MARY SIM, TAN SRI DR NG YEN YEN AND DATUK RASHIDI HASBULLAH
DATO DZULKIFLI MAHMUD, KAPTAN MOHAMAD IDHAM ABDULLAH THANI THE AIDE-DE-CAMP OF CROWN PRINCE OF PERLIS AND HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE CROWN PRINCE OF PERLIS DYTM TUANKU SYED FAIZUDDIN TUANKU SYED SIRAJUDDIN JAMALULLAIL
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE CROWN PRINCE OF PERLIS ARRIVES
HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE CROWN PRINCESS OF PERLIS ARRIVES
GREETING THE DELEGATES FROM CHINA
THE CROWN PRINCE OF PERLIS AND DATO DZULKIFLI MAHMUD THE CEO OF MATRADE
DATUK VINCENT SIM LEADS THE CROWN PRINCE OF PERLIS TO STAGE
DIGNITARIES GREETING THEIR HIGHNESSES
THE CROWN PRINCE AND CROWN PRINCESS OF PERLIS WITH DIGNITARIES
OWEN YAP WAS EMCEE EXTRAORDINAIRE
VERY DE HANDSOME EMCEE OWEN YAP
HIGH ROYALTY AND VIPS
DATUK VINCENT SIM'S WELCOME AND THANK YOU SPEECH
PICTURE OF GRACE, KINDNESS AND GENEROSITY
HAPPY ROYAL COUPLE
THEIR ROYAL HIGHNESSES PREPARE TO HIT THE GONG TO LAUNCH VIP PREVIEW NIGHT
DONE!
THE CROWN PRINCE AND CROWN PRINCESS CONSENT TO SIGN THE COMMEMORATIVE PLAQUE
THEIR HIGHNESSES PRESENT PLAQUE TO ART EXPO MALAYSIA FOUNDER DATUK VINCENT SIM
THEIR ROYAL HIGHNESSES CONSENT TO ACCEPT TOKEN OF APPRECIATION FROM DATUK VINCENT SIM
ONE FOR THE ALBUM
HUSNI MUIT OF SRI SUTRA TRAVEL, GEE BATEK DESIGNER AND EIFUL NIZEM ARIFFIN
MIKI CHOONG WITH HIS EXCELLENCY THE AMBASSADOR OF ARGENTINA AND SPOUSE GUADALUPE CERNUSCO CORNEJO AND GUESTS
THE CROWN PRINCE OF PERLIS ADMIRING PAINTINGS
MIKI CHOONG AND HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE CROWN PRINCESS OF PERLIS
MIKI CHOONG AND DYTM TUANKU HAJJAH LAILATUL SHAHREEN AKASHAH KHALIL
HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE CROWN PRINCESS OF PERLIS DYTM TUANKU HAJJAH LAILATUL SHAHREEN AKASHAH KHALIL AND DATO KEE HUA CHEE
DATIN MARY SIM, THE CROWN PRINCESS OF PERLIS AND DATO KEE HUA CHEE
THEIR HIGHNESSES THE CROWN PRINCE AND CROWN PRINCESS OF PERLIS, MIKI CHOONG, DATIN MARY SIM, DATUK VINCENT SIM AND ARTIST
DATIN MARY SIM, THE CROWN PRINCESS OF PERLIS DYTM TUANKU HAJJAH LAILATUL SHAHREEN AKASHAH KHALIL AND MIKI CHOONG
THE CROWN PRINCE OF PERLIS, THE CROWN PRINCESS OF PERLIS, HIS EXCELLENCY THE PHILIPPINES AMBASSADOR TO MALAYSIA, DATO DZULKIFLU MAHMUD THE CEO OF MATRADE AND DATIN MARY SIM OF ART EXPO MALAYSIA
THE ADC OF THE CROWN PRINCE, CAPTAIN MOHD ADHAM ABDULLAH THANI KEEPS VIGILANT EYE ON DYTM TUANKU FAIZUDDIN TUANKU SIRAJUDDIN JAMALULLAIL
THE CROWN PRINCE AND CROWN PRINCESS OF PERLIS WITH AMBASSADOR OF COLOMBIA HIS EXCELLENCY VICTOR ECHEVERRI AT COLOMBIA BOOTH AND ARTIST DEBORAH NETTO
DATUK VINCENT SIM AT LEFT AND DATIN MARY SIM AT RIGHT
THE COLOMBIAN AMBASSADOR HIS EXCELLENCY VICTOR ECHEVERRI CHATS WITH CROWN PRINCE OF PERLIS DYTM TUANKU FAIZUDDIN TUANKU SIRAJUDDIN JAMALULLAIL
THE COLOMBIAN AMBASSADOR, THE CROWN PRINCE OF PERLIS AND TOP COLOMBIAN ARTIST DEBORAH NETTO
HIS EXCELLENCY VICTOR ECHEVERRI THE AMBASSADOR OF COLOMBIA, DEBORAH NETTO, MADAME ECHEVERRI AND FRIDA SOARES
DATO KEE HUA CHEE JOINS IN
MIKI CHOONG, HIS EXCELLENCY YERMOLOVA THE AMBASSADOR OF RUSSIA, MADAME IRINA YERMOLOVA AND DATO KEE HUA CHEE HOLDING HIS MAGNIFICENT ALBINO CROCODILE BACKPACK
DATO KEE HUA CHEE AND NEW FRIENDS
TJ THE FASHION DESIGNER AT RIGHT WITH FRIENDS
THE RAJA MUDA PERLIS ENJOYED DINNER AT MATRADE CAFE AND AFTER THE REPAST ALLOWED DATO KEE HUA CHEE TO BE PHOTOGRAPHED WITH HIS HIGHNESS
THE RAJA MUDA PERLIS WAS AMUSED BY DATO KEE HUA CHEE'S MASSIVE RINGS
THE RAJA MUDA PERLIS GRANTED PERMISSION TO BE PHOTOGRAPHED WITH CORINNA TAN, HAROLD KOAY AND DERELLA KHOR
THE RAJA MUDA PERLIS WITH BATEK CONTINGENT
THE RAJA PERLIS AND RAJA PUAN PERLIS WITH VIPS
CORINNA TAN AND CROWN PRINCESS OF PERLIS THE RAJA PUAN MUDA PERLIS TUANKU LAILATUL SHAHREEN AKASHAH KHALIL
CORINNA TAN AND RAJA PUAN MUDA PERLIS
HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE CROWN PRINCESS OF PERLIS THE RAJA PUAN MUDA PERLIS AND DATO KEE HUA CHEE
HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE CROWN PRINCESS OF PERLIS THE RAJA PUAN MUDA PERLIS DYTM TUANKU LAILATUL SHAHREEN AKASHAH KHALIL AND DATO KEE HUA CHEE
TARA SOSROWARDOYO, DATIN PADUKA MARINA MAHATHIR, RAJA MUDA PERLIS AND VIPS
THE CROWN PRINCE OF PERLIS DYTM TUANKU SYED FAIZUDDIN PUTRA SYED SIRAJUDDIN JAMLULLAIL POSING NEXT TO THEIS RM 450,000 CRUSHED BALL VOLKSWAGEN WITH VIPS
THE AIDE DE CAMP CAPTAIN MOHD IDHAM ABDULLAH THANI ENSURED THE RAJA MUDA PERLIS WAS SAFELY SEATED WITH RAJA PUAN MUDA PERLIS BEFORE ENTERING THE FRONT SEAT
DATO IBRAHIM HUSSEIN'S VALUABLE PAINTING OWNED BY NST
HAROLD KOAY WANTED TO PURCHASE BUT THIS ART IS NOT FOR SALE
DATO KEE HUA CHEE WEARS HIS PAINTINGS ON HIMSELF
CHEERS TO 10TH ART EXPO MALAYSIA! CONGRATULATIONS
CORINNA TAN INSISTS SHE CAN ROLL HERSELF INTO A BALL TOO
RM 450,000 FOR VW BALL BUT DOES NOT INCLUDE CORINNA TAN WHICH COSTS EXTRA
DERELLA KHOR, CORINNA TAN, VW BALL AND HAROLD KOAY
ALL PLAN TO SQUEEZE INSIDE CAR
HOW THE ARTIST DID THIS IS BEYOND ME AS THE WINDOWS ARE NOT BROKEN AND WHEELS SEEM INTACT AND EVERYTHING SEEMS UNBROKEN DESPITE BEING CRUSHED
EXQUISITE
DATO KEE HUA CHEE AND CRUSHED VW CAR ARE STARS OF ART EXPO MALAYSIA 2016 WITH HANNS SIM
CORINNA TAN LATER OPENS DOOR AND WENT INSIDE
CORINNA TAN SOMEWHERE INSIDE
LOOKS LIKE M&M SO DELICIOUS