Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Visual Arts
Malaysia has a damned impressive contemporary art scene and KL is the best place to ac-
cess it both at public galleries and several private collections that are open to visitors by ap-
pointment.
Among the most interesting and internationally successful contemporary Malaysian
artists are Jalaini Abu Hassan ('Jai'), Wong Hoy Cheong, landscape painter Wong Perng
Fey, and Australian-trained multimedia artist Yee I-Lann. Amron Omar has focused for
nearly 30 years on
silat
(a Malay martial art) as a source of inspiration for his paintings, a
couple of which hang in the National Art Gallery in KL.
Latiff Mohidin, who is also a poet, is a Penang-based artist whose work spans several
decades and has featured in a retrospective at the National Visual Arts Gallery; he's con-
sidered a national treasure. One of his stainless steel sculptures,
Kinetic 1
, is in the lobby of
the Petronas Towers.
Abdul Multhalib Musa's sculptures have won awards and he created several pieces in
Beijing for the 2008 Olympics. One of Musa's rippling steel tube creations is in the garden
at Rimbun Dahan, while another can be spotted outside Wisma Selangor Dredging, 142C
Jln Ampang, in KL.
Dain Said's 2012 action drama
Bunohan
(
www.bunohan.com
)
swept the board at various local film festivals
and awards and has also attracted good press internationally.
