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CURATOR NOTES: According to the artist, the project was done spontaneously over the course of 48 hour. The artwork firstly made publication through the show INPRINT held by National Art Gallery & guest curated by artist, Juhari Said in 2005, and was acquired into the collection in 2009. Azizan Rahman Paiman & his wife Suhaila […]
CURATOR NOTES: In Proclaim series, photographic elements had become key subject matter alongside textual archive. The manipulation and combination of its arrays of forms through persistent alignment of thoughts and narratives with an artisanal mastery of the elements and principles of art which creates an aesthetically pleasant documentation effort through art. An interview with the […]
According to an interview with Eric Peris for this particular work, GPO stands for General Post Office, a building that has similar characteristic to the Sultan Abdul Samad Building, an iconic building in Malaya that was completed in 1907, it is among the few building in Kuala Lumpur that portrays a style of architecture akin […]
CURATOR NOTES: Samsudin Wahab practices various form of artworks ranging from prints, sculptures and painting that contextually resonate with his environment, interest and ideas. Datuk Sharifah Aini is Malaysia’s own Biduanita Negara, a celebrated singer after the late Salmah Ismail (Saloma). Sharifah Aini passed away in 2014, 2 years after the making of this work.This […]
CURATOR NOTES: The series Imaging Selfs is a long-term ongoing project by photographer Soraya Yusof Talismail whereas Soraya’s objective is to document 80 key Malaysian figures in the arts. The series Imaging Self portrays the icons in a black & white setting using silver gelatin prints, creating an emotive and personalized documentation of subject in […]
CURATOR NOTES: The series Imaging Selfs is a long-term ongoing project by photographer Soraya Yusof Talismail whereas Soraya’s objective is to document 80 key Malaysian figures in the arts. The series Imaging Self portrays the icons in a black & white setting using silver gelatin prints, creating an emotive and personalized documentation of subject in […]
CURATOR NOTES: The series Imaging Selfs is a long-term ongoing project by photographer Soraya Yusof Talismail whereas Soraya’s objective is to document 80 key Malaysian figures in the arts. The series Imaging Self portrays the icons in a black & white setting using silver gelatin prints, creating an emotive and personalized documentation of subject in […]
INTRODUCTION Eric Peris was born in 1939, Johor Bharu. Eric Peris first learnt of art from his father, the royal portrait painter, O Don Peris. O Don Peris was a prolific painter and was among Eric first introduction to arts. An Interview with Eric denotes a story between him and O Don that bring lights […]
As of 2022, The national art gallery had acquired a total of 18 of Ismail Hashim’s work between the period 1974-2012. (14 photography,1 watercolor,1 pencil on paper, 1 oil painting and 1 ink on paper). painter but moved to photography during the Seventies. He is one of the small handful of serious artistic photographers who […]
CURATOR NOTES: This work is a selective few portrait with four variation within a piece by Soraya compared to the other artist in the Imaging Self series. In the portraits, Datuk Lat is seen to be holding piece of papers with a variation of features (hair, eyes, expressions) of Lat’s main character in Kampung Boy, […]
