CURATOR NOTES: SANUBARI was the title for a photography exhibition celebrating photographer Nirmala Karuppiah back in 2015, a graphic designer from 1996 to 2005. Nirmala was noted to be a freelance photographer from 2005 up to 2015 (SANUBARI – portraits in motion, a solo exhibition by Nirmala Karuppiah, 2015) In the preface of the catalog, […]
CURATOR NOTES: Muram Serius is among the early 70s Malaysian modern & post-modern work in the collection which had applied photographic elements. Based on the inventory of the national permanent collection, the works entered the collection alongside Statement I by Nirmala Shanmughalingam, followed by an etching with a negative print by Abdul Latiff Mohidin entitled […]
KELUARGA by Abdul Latiff Mohidin is one among two of the earliest printmaking works by Abdul Latiff Mohidin that was acquired into the collection. The artwork visualized a negative photographic print consisting of 3 figures at the bottom of the work that was composed with long totemic rectangular structure that at first glance, resembled embedded […]
CURATOR NOTES: This work was first exhibited in 1973 and had won the Major award for the show entitled ‘’Manusia dan Alamnya. It is also one of the earlier social commentary works based on environmental issues that was acquired for the collection, a juxtaposed effort and pre-cursor towards contemporary art that is universal in its […]
ARTIST STATEMENT Quoting from Piyadasa (2002); in regards to his Malaysian Series: “This mixed media work produced by the artist belongs to the series of images that have come to be collectively known as the Malaysian Series. It was produced in 1982 and was one of the very first of the series of art works […]
ARTIST STATEMENT: ‘’After effectively rejecting Western-centric art, Sulaiman was in an impasse. However, it was during this period he produced a controversial pieces Waiting for Godot- a series of open plate intaglio prints. It was a critical moment in his life now that he had negated western art that he had been obsessed with for […]
CURATOR NOTES: This painting was documented in 1986, in Ibrahim Hussein a Retrospective held at the National Art Gallery. It was collected 5 years before the retrospective alongside 3 other work the same year. The first painting in the collection that was made in 1969 was donated by Dunlop Malayan Industries, Entitled Tumult. The National […]
CURATOR NOTES: Today, coloring and desaturating of photograph can be done digitally on the computer, making this work, after the fact uniquely resemble two period of time within the past. Alex Moh exploration regarding photography began as early as 1997, throughout his career, Alex is an avid researcher, critic, curator and also photographer. Over the […]
CURATOR NOTES: This colored photograph portrays the late king, Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah who is standing in front of a car with its own intricate design similar to a Cadillac with white wall tires closely toned to the roof of the car, showcasing a design trend unique to cars in Malaya in the 1940s. In […]
CURATOR NOTES: At the forefront of the exhibition, the artwork can be viewed as a visually correlative introductory piece to an exhibition that aims to study the relativity of photography, art and the collection. Such essence and context are closely tied to the subject matter of this piece. There is only one collection of Loke […]
