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To celebrate Chinese New Year, SM Megamall and Chan Lim Family of Artists & Students have prepared 381 artworks done in Chinese Scrolls, Oil Paintings & Taels. The exhibit is joined by 50 artists. This is Chan Lim’s 35th exhibit at SM Supermalls.
Exhibit will run from January 27 to Feb at SM Mega Fashion Hall. Free Painting workshops will be conducted on Feb 5, 9 & 10.
The Chan Lim items would like to dedicate this exhibit in memory of Mr. Henry Sy, Sr.
Chan Lim: Family of Artists
Over the past five decades. the Chan Lim Family of Artists have used a wide variety of media, styles and techniques to create a fusion of Western and Eastern art. However, it is their Asian-themed art and Chinese brush painting that the Chan Lim artists are best known for.
Currently, the three generations of the family are actively involved in the arts, with the younger generation dabbling in different types of more modern techniques, such as digital media and audio-visual creations.
Chan Lim, the family patriarch, started his career in the arts using oil and watercolor as his main media. Most of his artwork are created on canvas and paper. The second generation were trained mostly in the Asian arts. One of the two older siblings’ notable pieces is a panel of pine and plum painting, started 35 years ago. The unfinished painting was unearthed in storage and recently finished. As a gesture of filial piety, the family patriarch, Chan Lim, was requested to compose a poem for the artwork entitled “The Journey”.
The Chan Lim artists have traveled extensively across the Philippines to promote Chinese culture by conducting art exhibits, classes, workshops, seminars, and on-the-spot painting demonstrations, Close collaboration between the Chan Lims and the leadership of the SM Supermalls bring these exhibits to different parts of the country. In addition, prominent local Filipino-Chinese non-profit organizations and educational institutions lend support for the free art workshops held in conjunction with the exhibits. All the workshops have enjoyed robust attendance and participation.
The Chan Lims’ art has certain characteristics that distinguish their work from others. Their artworks are distinctively Asian, with allusions of Western technique. Over the years, the Chan Lims have continuously blazed the trail on the type of media used for the Chinese brush. Their art subjects have included tiora, fauna, insects, landscape, and portraits painted on media such as as lanterns, Chinese fans, porcelain plates, ceramic taels and rice paper.
Here are 10 Fun Facts about Chan Lim Exhibits at SM Supermalls:
- From 2011 to 2018, 34 Chan Lim Art Exhibits were held in SM Supermalls i the Philippines.
- During the same period, more than 6000 people participated in the Chan Lim free community painting workshops held at SM Supermalls.
- The longest Chan Lim Art Exhibits were held in SM City North EDSA, SM City East Ortigas and SM City Pampanga. These venues hosted the exhibits for 29 days.
- The most number of Chan Lim art pieces on display were 396 in SM Seaside City Cebu, 2018.
- The largest Chan Lim indoor information banner measured 35 feet x 10 feet. This was displayed in SM City General Santos.
- The most number of artists who participated at a Chan Lim Art Exhibit was 46, held at SM Lanang Premier in 2018.
- SM Megamall hosted the Chan Lim Art Exhibit with the most types of media displayed.
- The first Chan Lim Family Art Exhibit was in 1995 at SM Megamall. The Family has held 17 exhibits to date, both locally and internationally.
- To mark Chan Lim’s 80th birthday, 8 art exhibits were held in 2017, with a total number of 200 exhibit days.
- In 2017, SM Lanang Premier and SM General Santos held the first Mid Autumn art festival designed around the Chan Lim Family of Artists and Students.
The Chan Lims hold regular Chinese painting classes in the family studio located in Pasig City, Metro Manila. Their artworks may be viewed at www.chanlim.com. They can be reached at [email protected].
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