Me Going Art in Kuala Lumpur
Surprisingly Kuala Lumpur is full of art galleries all over the city. All you need is to know when and where an opening is happening and off you go!
The first exhibition I went to was Toy Box by Olan Ventura, artist from The Philippines whose art work is representation of Plastic Realism. He pictures the heroes of our childhood who seemed that can save the world and fight the danger that we can even dream in our darkest dreams. Here those heroes are just plastic figures taken out of the fiction and placed on the canvas, they are not mystified or glorified, just simple plastic toy figures. And I think of the person who would like to have one of those paintings in his living room.
'Whatever references lay beneath or on the surface of Olan Venturas TOY BOX works, the resulting artifacts remain a testament to both the power of the imaginary and real. It demands the sensitivity of the viewer to see beyond the legend behind each figure, as ironic, heroic examples of our moral aspirations, to a reality that perhaps reflects the fallacy of such notions.' This is what Antonio Luz says about work of O.Ventura.
Another exhibitions was by young local artist Nizam Abdullah. Threesixfive ME. That's the name of the exhibition. It took some time to get the idea behind all of the paintings, but we were pretty smart to figure it out all by ourselves, before reading the introduction to the art work.
Observation no 1: all paintings had the same face
Assumption no 1: that might be the artist
And we met the guy who looks just like the one in all paintings, that's how our assumption became a fact. All those works are his auto-portraits.
Observation no 2: there are many copied A4 papers with different face of the artist on the wall that follows some pattern.
Assumption no 2: that might be a calendar, one portrait for a day.
And once again when we repeated the name of the exhibition 'Threesixfive ME', it hit us, this is a 365 days in a year and these are the portraits of each day of the calendar.
After that we read this in the introduction booklet [Simon Soon] 'In a more ambitious Xeroxed drawings installations 'Same Shit Different Day, Different Day Same Shit', the ennui is further magnified, channelling the working artist's repetitive grind and he undergoes the boredom of day to day living, seeking for meaning in his existence. Displayed in a calendrical format on the wall, the 365 pieces cohere as a visual diary illustrating the frustrating attempt at transcending the current existence.'
The usual opening words was followed by unusual opening performance. Nizam, the painter, he performed an act of shaving his beard in front of all the visitors. I was sure he is going to cut his long hair and shave the head as well, and I was anxious to see it, but to my disappointment it was too much for him to step out of his comfort zone by shaving his beard. [This is what he said]
After few days I went for another exhibition opening where they were displaying 5 artists works and one of them were again Nizam Abdullah. This guy has his style, his style is himself. These portraits were under the concept 'inner me' and literally they were displaying under-skin artist body.
On and off we go for exhibitions to explore local artist works. These are few examples. Most of the exhibitions gifts with nice art and some only with interesting people. Overall in all cases it's a good time.
The first exhibition I went to was Toy Box by Olan Ventura, artist from The Philippines whose art work is representation of Plastic Realism. He pictures the heroes of our childhood who seemed that can save the world and fight the danger that we can even dream in our darkest dreams. Here those heroes are just plastic figures taken out of the fiction and placed on the canvas, they are not mystified or glorified, just simple plastic toy figures. And I think of the person who would like to have one of those paintings in his living room.
'Whatever references lay beneath or on the surface of Olan Venturas TOY BOX works, the resulting artifacts remain a testament to both the power of the imaginary and real. It demands the sensitivity of the viewer to see beyond the legend behind each figure, as ironic, heroic examples of our moral aspirations, to a reality that perhaps reflects the fallacy of such notions.' This is what Antonio Luz says about work of O.Ventura.
Another exhibitions was by young local artist Nizam Abdullah. Threesixfive ME. That's the name of the exhibition. It took some time to get the idea behind all of the paintings, but we were pretty smart to figure it out all by ourselves, before reading the introduction to the art work.
Observation no 1: all paintings had the same face
Assumption no 1: that might be the artist
And we met the guy who looks just like the one in all paintings, that's how our assumption became a fact. All those works are his auto-portraits.
Observation no 2: there are many copied A4 papers with different face of the artist on the wall that follows some pattern.
Assumption no 2: that might be a calendar, one portrait for a day.
And once again when we repeated the name of the exhibition 'Threesixfive ME', it hit us, this is a 365 days in a year and these are the portraits of each day of the calendar.
After that we read this in the introduction booklet [Simon Soon] 'In a more ambitious Xeroxed drawings installations 'Same Shit Different Day, Different Day Same Shit', the ennui is further magnified, channelling the working artist's repetitive grind and he undergoes the boredom of day to day living, seeking for meaning in his existence. Displayed in a calendrical format on the wall, the 365 pieces cohere as a visual diary illustrating the frustrating attempt at transcending the current existence.'
The usual opening words was followed by unusual opening performance. Nizam, the painter, he performed an act of shaving his beard in front of all the visitors. I was sure he is going to cut his long hair and shave the head as well, and I was anxious to see it, but to my disappointment it was too much for him to step out of his comfort zone by shaving his beard. [This is what he said]
After few days I went for another exhibition opening where they were displaying 5 artists works and one of them were again Nizam Abdullah. This guy has his style, his style is himself. These portraits were under the concept 'inner me' and literally they were displaying under-skin artist body.
On and off we go for exhibitions to explore local artist works. These are few examples. Most of the exhibitions gifts with nice art and some only with interesting people. Overall in all cases it's a good time.
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