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Introjection @ Lorong Kekabu
Five photography-based installations make up “Introjection”, a show that “…harus dilihat sebagai suatu eksplorasi seni visual dan juga sebuah corak ekspresi dalaman yang disalurkan ke dalam bentuk...
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Pulse: January – April 2016 Art Auctions
~74% of 630+ artworks were hammered down in five auctions across four months in hotel ballrooms, as the majority of artists’ prices decrease slightly this season. Auction houses vary their selling...
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Snippets: Japan, April 2016
Still adjusting to the pace of travelling with a young child, I manage a visit to the Hyōgo Prefectural Museum of Art 兵庫県立美術館 during a trip to the three prefectures of the Keihanshin 京阪神. The Andō...
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Sembelit @ Lostgens'
“The myriad of characters cramming his paintings are eating each other, smoking, running somewhere, shouting, puking; they drive sputtering motorcycle, Malaysian own Proton Sagas, lorries and...
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Words Become Art @ Wei-Ling Gallery
“道成了肉身，住在我们中间，满有恩典和真理。我们见过他的荣光，正是从父而来的独生子的荣光。”- John 1:14, Chinese New Version (simplified)“By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made...
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MAPPING (I): TANAH MELAYU @ NVAG
Now that the ground floor galleries are fit for public display, “MAPPING” promises to be the most exciting initiative undertaken by the art institution in recent times. If all goes well, this...
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Exploration x Expression @ PORT Commune
In a radio interview, Anahita Ghazanfari tells Syahbandi Samat that “…he needs to travel (…) watch, listen and read…”. Both artists-in-residence of the Sembilan program, the form of expression taken by...
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MAPPING (II): PEMBENTUKAN @ NVAG
…Moving on from colonial pictures, “FORMATION” highlights local artists active during the period from 1920s to 1960s. Galeri 1A is demarcated into ten sections corresponding to art groups, each segment...
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MAPPING (III): PEMBENTUKAN @ NVAG
…Looking at an early painting by Cheong Laitong, one is reminded of the glass mosaic mural on Muzium Negara’s façade. Perhaps a photograph can better pique public interest; another suggestion for...
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MARANG Experiments in Colour 1952-70 Pt 1 @ Modern Art Transact
After admiring the precise compositions and abstract sandscapes in photographs of a famous coastal area, one has to ask – why did Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah not develop these coloured Ektachrome...
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Framing the Common @ PORT Commune
Sidestepping the capitalist mode of defining spaces as private versus public, a collective of architects presents the Common, hereby referred to as “…the commonly-owned shared spaces of the modern...
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Narratives in Malaysian Art: Infrastructures (I)
Infrastructures is the easiest book to read among the three volumes of Narratives in Malaysian Art published so far, even though it contains no colour pictures. Topics revolve around people and...
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Narratives in Malaysian Art: Infrastructures (II)
...In the next section, Nur Hanim Khairuddin’s concise and illuminating essay traces the development of independent “Artist Initiatives” that “…challenge the hegemonic control of institutional and...
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AL-KESAH: Homage to Ismail Zain @ Galeri Petronas
Semiological. Intertextual. Structuralist. These common descriptors of Ismail Zain’s oeuvre do a disservice to his artistic output, in its establishing of an academic distance between the viewer and...
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The Past is Never Where You Think You Left It @ Wei-Ling Contemporary
Gowri Balasegaran’s catalogue essay states that, “(t)his exhibition explores the relationship between the past, the present, and the future that is evoked in (Katherine Anne Porter’s novel The Ship of...
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The Crowning Glory @ Sutra Gallery
“Ordinary mortals are inadvertently caught in the maya of owning and disowning that momentary glory. However, each evening when a performer climbs the stage and subsumes himself in that sacred aura to...
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Transit A2 @ HOM Art Trans
56 practicing Malaysian artists contribute works of a certain size, to support fundraising for the Malaysian Art Archive & Research Support (MARS). This exhibition offers too an opportunity to...
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Fragile @ The Edge Galerie
During my visit, an elderly Caucasian couple strolls from one Umibaizurah Mahir artwork to another, admiring and discussing each piece with the gallery attendant. Ten roughly A3-sized black & white...
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Bukan Objek Seni @ Galeri Chandan
‘Apa Yang Kamu Lihat Semasa Ke Pameran?’ ‘Sold Out!!!’ ‘Merakyatkan Seni Dengan Membawa Seni Ke Masyarakat’. ‘Tajuk apa ya nak tulis? UNTITLED aje laaaaa…’ ‘I Create Retinal Art’. ‘Seniman Adalah...
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Convergence of Souls @ White Box
With ongoing shows of modern/ postmodern Malaysian art presented in other parts of town, Fergana Art’s annual showcase is an impressive collection of works from generations past, also serving as a...
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