We will be participating in the art expo scheduled to be held at Matrade Exhibition and Convention Centre (MECC) in Kuala Lumpur, from November 26 to November 30, 2008. We will be at booth number 28.
VENUE:
Menara MATRADE, Jalan Khidmat Usaha,
Off Jalan Duta, 50480 Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA.
DATE: 26th - 29th November 2008 (10.30am - 7.30pm) ;30th November 2008 (10.30am - 5pm)
The countries which took part last year were Britain, China, Cuba, France, Hong Kong, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Malaysia, Myanmar, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Korea (South and North), Taiwan, Thailand, Uzbeckistan and Vietnam. The 1st International Art Expo Malaysia 2007 was awarded as the BIGGEST Art exposition in the country with 1,500 verified paintings on display.
The 2nd International Art Expo Malaysia 2008 will be chockfull of special events to make it more memorable and meaningful.
Biggest art event in Malaysia spread over 4,680 square metres.
More than 140 booths of internationally renowned galleries & artists from 20 countries.
Special tribute pavilions to living legend artists.
Next in line, a two man show-with participating artist:Pheh It Hao & Tang Yeok Khang.
The Metropolis and the Artist
By Edward Ong (for Tang Yeok Khang’s work)
October 08, Kuala Lumpur
(Above) Title:A Day-dream, watercolor on paper, 104cmX94cm,year 2008.
Steel structures, spacemen, migratory birds, and shrieking children – what do they all have in common? In Tang Yeok Khang’s art they converge to produce a surprising yet credible view of the modern world in motion.
The evolution of Tang Yeok Khang as an artist started before he exchanged his hometown, an idyll of rolling glades, for the inconstant urban setting of Kuala Lumpur. As a young artist, he had dabbled in conventional landscape-painting and soon discovered that its regimented ways did not suit his restive character. Not able to capture his true artistic character, he wandered through the wasteland of unproductivity for a period of time. His move to the capital in the mid-90s finally brought about changes he had not foreseen…
(Above) Title: Beyond Visibility II,watercolor on paper,55cmX55cm,year 2008.
The Unseen
By Edward Ong (for Pheh It Hao’s works)
September 08, Kuala Lumpur
In a world that subsists on hyperboles, there is no denying the significance and importance of size. Sheer size and all its colourful connotations – power, vitality, efficiency, splendour – entered our psyche and marked out their territory as we were collectively sleepwalking through life. The universal language of today is thus a language of over-exaggeration; of intimidation: My skyscraper is 50 metres higher than yours; my fully CGI-generated movie cost three times as much to produce than yours; my faith is truer than yours – and so on and so forth. It would naturally be a misinterpretation to think this Guinness-World-Records Culture has come to define who we are. For the contrary is true. It is human nature to take notice only of the brilliant and the exceptional. There is no place in our imagination for what we perceive as mundane. The less said about the unappealing, the better. Hence, it is we who have conditioned ourselves to see only the obvious.
And so it is in the very human world of Art…
The Nostalgia exhibition was launched on Sunday, 19th October 2008 at 5.00pm. Tn Hj Azman Ibrahim, Managing Director of Pantai Medivest officiated the event.
Tuesday, 19th August 2008, at 8.00pm the exhibition was officiated by
H.E. Dr. Günter Gruber, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany.
The exhibition will thereafter be on display until Saturday, 30th August 2008.
Coming up from August 19th till August 30th 2008,
THE GERMAN CONNECTION:ART.
The German Alumni Association Kuala Lumpur (GAAKL) and the Goethe-Institut Malaysia will jointly organise an exhibition entitled “The German Connection : Art”, in collaboration with Pelita Hati House of Art.
The event is a showcase of art as the link between Germany and Malaysia as well as the artists from both countries: German artists who live and work in Malaysia such as:Alex Moh, Askandar Unglehrt, Chang Yoong Chia, Chin Kong Yee, Chin Mui Yoon, Gisela Rademacher, Goh Lee Kwang, Ilse Noor, Jailani Abu Hassan, Noor Mahnun Mohamed, Nur Hanim Khairuddin, Mariam Jutta, Raja Shahriman, Sabri Idrus, Shooshie Sulaiman, Volker W Hamann, Wong Hoy Cheong, Wong Perng Fey & Yee I-Lann.
The exhibition will be officiated by H. E. Dr. Günter Gruber, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany, on Tuesday, August 19, 2008 at 8.00pm. Initiated by Dr. Volker Wolf, Director of Goethe-Institut Malaysia, the exhibition is a “cultural welcome” to Dr. Gruber, who has recently been appointed Ambassador to Malaysia.
Coming soon-formaSIX, a group art exhibition by six artists-Muhd Sarip bin Abd Rahman, Mohd Hafiz bin Yahaya,Norshahidan bin Mohamad, Muhammad Abdul Aziz bin Ab Ghani,Rozana binti Musa & Abdul Latiff bin Ahmad Padzali.
The exhibition will commence from July 30th 2008.
Pelita Hati Bulletin “Showcasing Malaysia’s Most Prominent Contemporary Artworks”. Pelita Hati. House of Art.
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