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We managed to take some photos at the opening of Raja Shariman’s much anticipated solo exhibition at Galeri Petronas. Dr. M launched the publication, which features an essay by collector Pakharuddin Sulaiman, amongst others. A review of the show by Eva McGovern is in the works, and we’re also working on getting permission for Pakharuddin’s essay to be published here on ARTERI. Meanwhile, enjoy. Oh, and go see the show.
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Rhythm of the 21st Century is on at Galeri Petronas from 29 Oct 2009 – 24 Jan 2010.
Public programmes in conjunction with the show:
14 Nov 2009 (Saturday/Sabtu) 3.00 – 5.00 pm
LECTURE SERIES II: The Development of Contemporary Sculpture in Malaysia.
SIRI PEMBENTANGAN II: Pembangunan Arca Kontemporari di Malaysia
Presentation on the definition and historical background of contemporary sculpture, factors influencing the development of contemporary sculpture and challenges faced by Malaysian sculptors.
Pembentangan definisi dan sejarah arca kontemporari, fakta-fakta yang mempengaruhi pembangunan arca kontemporari dan cabaran-cabaran yang dihadapi oleh pengarca Malaysia.
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18 Nov 2009 (Wednesday/Rabu) 6.00 – 7.00 pm
Curatorial Walkthrough
Lawatan Berpandu Kurator
Presenter/Penyampai : Tengku Elina Raja Aziddin
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21 Nov 2009 (Saturday/Sabtu) 3.00 – 5.00 pm
FORUM: Sculpture from the social, cultural and religious perspectives
FORUM: Arca dari perspektif social, budaya dan agama
Panelists/Ahli Panel: Tengku Sabri Tengku Ibrahim (Sculptor/Pengarca), Raja Shahriman Raja Aziddin (Sculptor/Pengarca), Fathi Aris (Socio-Cultural Critic/Pengkritik Budaya )
Moderator: Nur Hanim Khairuddin
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19 Dec 2009 (Saturday/Sabtu) 3.00 – 5.00 pm
ARTIST TALK & WALKTROUGH
BICARA ARTIS & LAWATAN BERPANDU
Join Sculptor Raja Shahriman Raja Aziddin as he leads a walkthrough of his exhibition.
Sertai lawatan berpandu bersama Pengarca Raja Shahriman Raja Aziddin.
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Dr. M looks good! What’s his secret? :P
He’s actually a cyborg and Shariman is showing upgrades for his skeletal system:)
Coupla years ago, Dr M was talking about how great it would be if malaysia made our own weapons, this show sure resonate with him one.
but more importantly, there is a cute girl on the top right corner of the pic where the yellow baju jurang lady is explaining stuff to Dr M.
To be precise, the said cute girl is seen three times in the pictures.
she’s the artist muse…
so after setting up the malaise afflicting petronas, the old bat goes off to spread some malevolence?
i saw the show and felt like ;_;
The more fluid series he showed before at Balai held more potential. Those figures were made of these long thin sharp twisted pieces that had both quality of muscley sinews and whispy make-up of the ‘soul’. He appeared on his way to an absract aesthetic paradise.
Instead of going there, he makes a mega show of these tired figures again, dragging his fans down to a kind of B grade action movie aesthetics. Come on, even Mahathir’s bored expression is telling you that these flakey Jihadist wannabes are a big waste of metal. I suppose Dr.M must have thought: dielah tokoh artis moden ni, macam mana boleh capai Visi 2020? For all the Machevelian jobs Mahathir did, one cannot deny that he had a (2)big hard on for making Malaysia a more ‘modern’ country.
And what do we end up with? Fuckin rounds and rounds of DIY pathetic looking bullets that doubles as a an Indian’s Cheif headdress or Geigeresque spines? Dude..mintalah from the Army or Air Force some empty bullet shells. Jangan malu.
The major installation had one figure with bullets firing off from the ketiak, and hair like super sayan but non of the excitement (I haven’t seen much local stuff lately but the best home made warrior face-off picture of the 21st Century I’ve seen so far is Mun Kao’s Thai Cock boxing painting).
Their metal bodies, so damn shite. Each piece so thick and crude, it looked like as if it was made by some con job contractor who was given a postcard picture of Museo Bilbao.
The drawings and paintings of them…were they done before? or after the sculptures were made? Bah why bother…
Ok sure it’s a lot of hardwork for one man to sculp and an hour to rant this but is hardwork still the main criteria for us to appreciate art? Don’t we want our senior artists to climb higher or just let them stagnate in mediocre formulaic figures?
I hope the next series will explore the more abstract metal ballish forms that were also on show. I actually enjoyed those. They could have represented the core of the warrior’s soul, a mind in action a la the way samurai warriors visualize different strategies before even drawing out their sword, or just really nice looking chunks of stuff welded together.
Multhalib is a counter example of a more modern scultor but even then, there’s still not enough experimenting with more advanced fabrication technology, new materials, and new ideas. We love our rusty, low tech, hand-made stuff which in this day and age, feels like such a forced signature for ‘lookz!i made art, i can haz cheezeburger naow?’, much like the drips many painters are doing. Is this a way of rebeling and saying ‘Fuck you Mahathir for dragging us into modernity?’
Should we continue this unchallenging path, our sculptors here will always be trapped with works that are only one level above those giant Hibiscus produced by DBKL.
Hmmm…maybe we can save the show but cutting it down in quantity, and put a Shariman with some conceptual installations next to it as a group show.
As for a solo, I suggest that he fights in arenas much smaller than Petronas in the future. No point seing all these warriors looking so lost and fighting each other neh?
rant out. sleep.
When art and science go together-gether, we have stuff like this:
Quantum Objects
http://julianvossandreae.com/acp/
This exhibition is about science and art meh? or you are suggesting he goes more high tech science style sculpture style.
here are some more famous science/art mashups!
Turner Artist: Roger Hiorns
http://www.entrepreneur.com/magazine/entrepreneur/2009/february/199580.html
DNA art
http://cenblog.org/2008/11/18/inorganic-living/
Po-mo self-portraits with Iphones
http://guyswithiphones.com
http://www.uvtoch.com/adi/works.html
yummy metalsmither
http://kuksi.com/
@_@ this artist plays along Shahriman’s buidling methods and spiritual issues but the intensity …phuaaaaaarrrrrhhhhhhh
Raja Shahriman at work in his workshop, forgive us for some grammatical error in the sub-title.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82IGrItJWQw
so nice 4 our art project.