A five-day art exhibition titled "Contemporary Art of Malaysia" ended yesterday at the National Art Gallery, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. Thirty-one art works including paintings, drawing, crafts, printmaking and mixed media by eight Malaysian artists were on display. Alias Yussof, M. Faizal Suhif, Asliza Aris, M. Fazli Othman, Mastura Haji M. Jarit, Rose Dahlina Rusli, M. Safwan Ahmed and Suzlee Ibrahim were the participants at the exhibition.
The Malay art works are mostly impressionistic and semi-abstract, featuring frequent use of vibrant colours like red, green, blue and black. The figures and motifs of the canvases highlight a multi-cultural society in Malaysia. Though most of the female figures are in veils, a few of the canvases feature nudes.
M. Faizal Suhif‘s prints are quite interesting. Using delicate lines the artist has presented two prints titled My Own Shoes and Black Forest. The colourful print My Own Shoes portrays three-dimensional forms of shoes. Through black, delicate lines a hilly forest has been portrayed in Black Forest.
Rose Dahlina Rusli in her works has presented nature in a romantic style, conserving the uncertainty, the misty mood and emotions. All her images celebrate the outdoors -- the Malaysian great landscapes through green, blue and mauve colours.
Asliza Aris‘ charcoal drawings feature conservative Muslim women in long veils. Her paintings, on the other hand, portray faceless female forms in colourful short clothes.
Impressionistic artist M. Fazli Othman‘s acrylic canvases feature two nude women in a small space. The gestures presented in the canvases portray insecure women in a materialistic metro life.
Mastura Haji M. Jarit in her art works has featured global culture. Alphabets create images in S. Safwan Ahmed‘s semi-abstract canvases.
Alias Yussof has presented architectural miniatures through mixed media works. Red, blue, black and green are the dominating colours in the pieces.
Six abstract canvases by Suzlee Ibrahim were on display. The artist has used bright colours including red, green, blue, black and burnt sienna in each of the canvases featuring different compositions. Joys and woes of the metro life have been portrayed in Ibrahim‘s works.
Buriganga Arts and Crafts organised the exhibition, which was inaugurated by the Malaysian Ambassador to Bangladesh, Dato Abdul Malek Bin Abdul Aziz. The organisers could have used captions, mentioning the mediums of the art works, for the convenience of viewers.
Source: www.thedailystar.net (2 Agustus 2007)
