Tang Hon Yin – In Search of Magical Margins

By Ooi Kok Chuen

February 2019 PENANG PALETTE
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THE Tang Hon Yin Retrospective is a fitting culmination of the artist’s Space Odyssey of half a century, an exploration close to his heart of Nature, specifically Geology.Still Life (30 x 21cm. Gouache on paper, 1959).Self-taught Datuk Tang, 76, graduated from University Malaya with a BA Hons and a Diploma in Education in 1967, majoring in Geography, and taught Geography and English before he was co-opted into administration (from 1973) and retired as Penang’s state education director in 1998.His palette...

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