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H.H. Lim is one of the most high profiled international Malaysian artists. He has been domiciled in Rome since his Academy of Fine Art study days in 1976 and is much written about among the Italian avant-garde in art journals. It’s a double image made up mainly of silhouettes with a darkened image of the water buffalo, the beast of burden in his birthplace in Kedah and now rendered obsolete, ditto the supersonic jet outlines over it, both framed in a quadrilateral, In the outer image the ubiquitous Tang Dynasty maiden may represent Chinese cultural renaissance while what looks like a photocopier ratchets us into the world today: fakes, counterfeits, reproductions, similes, maybe referencing the Pop Art device of replicating same images like Andy Warhol. H.H. Lim is a Neo-Conceptual cum performance-installation artist. He has chalked up an impressive CV having taken part in the Istanbul, Prague (2013), Tirana, Singapore (2016), Kuala Lumpur (2017) and Venice biennales, his recent Venice biennale in 2013 in the Cuban Pavilion. He was also in the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2010. His major solo exhibitions include Gone With The Wind (UCCA Ullens Contemporary Art Centre Beijing, 2010) and reputable places like National Centre for Contemporary Art (Moscow), GNAM (Rome), MAXI Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo (Rome), the Westin Excelsior in Rome (2012) and at the Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing. In his Henry Butcher Art Auction debut in November 2013, his Flying Image In Blue Project netted a premium of RM121,000. He was given a comeback solo by Wei-Ling Contemporary, ‘The Beginning of Something’ although he had one in 2012, called ‘Daily Music’, at his own space, IzuZone in Penang. 142 x 129cm