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Title : Inaugural
Exhibition
Year
: 2007
ISBN :
978-983-43524-0-0
Number of pages : 62
Price :
RM 35
Curator :
Zainol Abidin bin Ahmad Shariff ( Zabas)
Guest Writer :
Dr. Zakaria Ali
Excerpts
“ The inaugural
exhibition of Malaysian masterpieces showcasing works by Datuk Syed ahmad
Jamal, Ahmad Khalid Yusof, Choong Kam Kow, Zakaria Ali, the late Mansor ghazali
and Redza Piyadasa. R A Fine arts was born out of passion for the arts, the
masterpieces conceived in the Malaysian cultural smogarsboard and the creative people responsible creating these
distinctive works. It was born out of a desire to share the delightful
experience of appreciating paintings and sculptures which have gradually grown
to be part of not only our personal stories, but also of the country’s
trajectory and history.”
Title :
Pameran Merdeka @ 50 - Perjalanan-perjalanan
Dalam Pembangunan Bangsa / Merdeka @ 50
Exhibition -
Journeys Through Nationhood
Year : 2007
ISBN : 978-983-43524-2-4
Number
of pages : 54
Price
: RM 35
Curator
: Zainol Abidin bin
Ahmad Shariff ( Zabas)
Excerpts
“ 50 years have now
come by since our country received political independence from the British
colonialists. Throughout these 50 years we have witnessed much physical
development. The building of roads and highways, public housing projects,
infrastructure facility such as water and electricity, all these are indicator
which show how far Malaysia has traversed the road towards being a modern and
prosperous nation.”
Title : Piyadasa- The
Malaysian Series
Year : 2007
ISBN : 978-983-43524-1-7
Number
of pages : 110
Price
: RM 85
Featured
artist : Redza Piyadasa
Curator
: T.K Sabapathy
Editor :
T.K Sabapathy
Excerpts
“For more than three
decades, Redza Piyadasa has defined his corner of this little world with his
finesse as an artist, his articulate prose as an art historian and critic, and
his benign, nurturing nature as an educator and sounding board for fellow
artists. Indeed, he is of a very special breed of artists who saw the importance
of playing multiple roles to further serve the cause of the Malaysian art
world, propelling it to the heights of refinement, robust existence and deep
discourse that we know today.”
Title : Batik Variations –
Traditional and Contemporary Imageries
Year
: 2007
ISBN : 978-983-43524-3-1
Number
of pages : 46
Price
: RM 35
Curator
: Prof. Dr. Zakaria
Ali
Excerpts
“ Batik has earned a
very special place in our perceptions of colour and class, of proprietary and portliness.
Most of us grew up with the batik as everyday apparel. Batik is as ubiquitous
as the T-shirt, worn to take a bath, or to attend the Quranic lessons, to relax
with friends in the front yard.”
Title : Pameran ‘ Nuansa
Khat : Nuansa Muslim’
Year : 2007
ISBN : 978-983-43524-4-8
Number
of pages : 46
Price
: RM 35
Curator
: Prof. Dr. Siti Zainon
Ismail
Excerpts
“ Tulisan Al Quran
dikenali sebagai seni khat adalah contoh
keindahan seni yang tersebar luas ke wilayah
kuasa dan umat Islam. Sejak abad ke tujuh hingga ke masa kini, seni khat
bukan sahaja wujud dalam wadah agungnya dalam kitab, dilakar dilorek dan dihias
air emas, tetapi juga menghiasi keindahan seni sulaman, tenunan, seni kaca,
seramik, anyaman, ukiran batu -kayu-
marmar.”
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Title : Tabah Dalam Derita
: A Palestinian Art Exhibition with
Palestinian and Malaysian Artists
Year : 2007
ISBN : 978-983-43524-5-5
Number
of pages : 67
Price
: RM 50
Curator
: Raja Ahmad
Aminullah
Guest
Writer : Lia Syed
Excerpts
“
Much of the history of the Palestinian people has been wiped out, like their
villages, urban centres and historical places; and the destruction continues. The
memory of almost 60 years of injustice and the suffering of the Palestinian
people is drowning in a sea of daily news reports on Palestine which consists
mostly of misleading, one sided information.”
Title : From Kuala
Kangsar.....An Exhibition featuring the creative side of those who
have walked
through the hallways of MCKK
Year : 2007
ISBN : 978-983-43524-6-2
Number
of pages : 50
Price
: RM 35
Curator : Zainol Abidin bin
Ahmad Shariff ( Zabas)
Writer :
raja ahmad aminullah
Excerpts
“ While we hear many
things about the contribution of alumni in the fields of administration,
academia, business, the professions and in the public terrain as Rulers,
Ministers, and sundry members of the Executive at all levels, we hear little
about the involvement of the alumni in the writing, artistic and creative
fields.
What ever the reason for it may be, there is certainly no dearth of talent in
this field.”
Title : Pameran ‘Mea Culpa’
Year : 2008
ISBN : 978-983-43524-8-6
Number
of pages : 15
Price
: RM 10
Curator : Nur Hanim Mohamed
Khairuddin
Excerpts
“ Pameran MEA CULPA menampilkan 13 orang pelukis kontemporari Malaysia yang sedang meningkat naik mahupun yang sudah berjenama. Antologi cerita pendek Amirul Fakir bertajuk MEA CULPA yang mengandungi kisah-kisah khayalan dan surreal menjadi landasan bagi ekspressi tampak projek ini. Setiap pelukis telah di ‘paksa’ untuk membaca kisah serta menambah vokabulari mereka daripada satu bab yang dipilih untuk melahirkan bentuk-bentuk visual dari sudut pandangan masing-masing.”
Title : Mustapa Haji
Ibrahim Paintings, 1968-2008
Year : 2008
ISBN : 978-983-43524-9-3
Number
of pages : 120
Price
: RM 115
Curator
: T.K Sabapathy
Excerpts
“
Mustapa Hj Ibrahim emerges into view from a long, stilled and unchanged shadow;
a shadow cast partly by his reclusive living and cast partly by an undirected,
featureless art world in Malaysia. Virtually unseen for years, he now is
vividly visible. 43 pictures produced between 1968 and 2007 are selected for
this exhibition. Spanning about forty years, it is the most extensive display
that has been mounted, enabling appreciation of some of the abiding formal and
symbolic pictorial attributes in his practice.”
Title : Rapat Umum –
Merdeka 2008
Year : 2008
ISBN : 978-983-44057-1-7
Number
of pages : 34
Price
: RM 35
Curator
: raja ahmad
aminullah
Excerpts
“ The idea of independence
is one that has fired the imagination of poets, philosophers, artists and
scholars throughout the ages. It is certainly useful as a benchmark or an ideal
to strive for; however in practice it has invariably been coloured with
differences in perception, understanding and certainly of practice. Artists,
whether literary or visual, have their own way of looking at things. They may
not be right in their conclusions but society certainly would be richer when it
allows the maximum space for artists and writers to express themselves
according to their own perception and understanding.”
Title : Pelukis dan
Peristiwa – Syed Ahmad Jamal
Year : 2008
ISBN : 978-983-44057-2-4
Number
of pages : 104
Price
: RM 115
Curator
: Prof. Madya.
Dr.D’zul Haimi bin Hj. Md. Zain
Writer :
raja ahmad aminullah
Excerpts
“ Having an
exhibition of the country’s only artist to be conferred the title of Seniman
Negara is certainly a singular honour for R A Fine Arts. Syed Ahmad Jamal has
always been regarded as a seniman who
has always expressed his concerns towards various events. Hence this exhibition
Pelukis dan Peristiwa ( Artist and Event) is held to show this particular
dimensions of his artistic journey.”
Title : Pop Fiction
Year : 2008
ISBN : 978-983-44057-4-8
Number
of pages : 37
Price
: RM 35
Featured
artists : Jeri Azhari, Amir
Zainorin, Azmin Hussein
Curator
: Badrolhisham
Mohamad Tahir
Excerpts
“ Pameran ini
dianggotai oleh tiga orang seniman yang telah sering dianggap ‘ kurang mendapat
perhatian’ serta ‘asing’ di persada seni kontemporari Malaysia. Walaupun
begitu, ketiga-tiga mereka telah sering dikaitkan dengan kesenian Pop- gerakan
seni yang banyak memperlihatkan penggunaan tema dan teknik yang diambil
daripada lambakan komoditi visual budaya popular yang kadang kala dicampurkan dengan
objek-objek lain untuk tujuan kontemplasi.”
Title : Angin Si Pauh
Janggi : Kenangan Makyong Khatijah Awang
Year : 2008
ISBN : 978-983-44057-3-1
Number
of pages : 79
Price
: RM 85
Featured
artist : Siti Zainon Ismail
Guest
Writer : Dr. Zulkifli
Mohamad, Mahzan Musa
Excerpts
“ Berbeza dengan
pameran solo terdahulu, pameran Angin Si Pauh Janggi diusahakan antaranya
sebagai penghormatan atau tribute kepada satu-satunya primadona unggul seni
persembahan Melayu tradisional Makyong Allahyarhamah Khatijah Awang.
Sememangnya primadona Makyong Khatijah Awang
dengan Siti Zainon begitu akrab
secara professional mahupun secara peribadi. Karya-karya separa abstrak
dan abstrak gejala ekspresionistik Angin Si Pauh Janggi berlandaskan secara konseptual unsure-unsur
magis dalam cerita-cerita penglipur lara Melayu tradisional”
Title : The Residency Years – Tuanku Abdul Rahman ; A
Special Tribute by
Syed Abdullah Barakhbah
Year : 2008
ISBN : 978-983-44057-5-5
Number
of pages : 225
Price
: RM 180
Featured
Photographer : Syed Abdullah Barakhbah
Guest
Writer : Mansor Puteh
Excerpts
“ Through these
photographs we get to see the Tunku in different moods. We see him greeting foreign
dignitaries at the Residency or playing with the younger members of his
extended families. This exhibition is certainly not meant to be a documentation
of Tunku’s years at the residency or after. However it is a personalised
tribute by the photographer, Syed Abdullah Barakhbah, a nephew of the
Tunku who was taken in as his adopted
son.”
Title : Penghuni Awal
Rumah 905
Year : 2008
ISBN : 978-983-44057-9-3
Number
of pages : 27
Price
: RM 35
Featured
artists : A. Latiff Mohidin,
Zulkifli Dahlan ( Allahyarham) , Maryam Hj. Abdullah, Mohd Yusoff
Othman,
Mustapa Hj. Ibrahim, Siti Zainon Ismail
Curator
: raja ahmad
aminullah raja abdullah
Guest
Writer : Ameruddin Ahmad
Excerpts
“ Minyak yang ada
pada seniman Rumah 905 ini sentiasa dibakar dan menyala hingga ke hari ini, ia
harus bukan dilihat bukan dalam bentuk pameran seni semata-mata, tetapi
intipati proses, pencarian dan perkongsian. Proses inilah yang tidak berbentuk
tetapi membawa maklumat dan pengetahuan. Maklumat dan pengetahuan ini yang akan
kekal selepas karya-karya seni mereka tidak mampu lagi menahan cuaca dan usia.”
Title : Solo Exhibition The Paintings of Kartika Affandi
Year
: 2009
ISBN : 978-967-5277-00-9
Number
of pages : 72
Price
: RM 115
Featured artist : Kartika Affandi
Curator
: Professor Dr. Zakaria Ali
Excerpts
“ Her technique of touch and go is a visual
incantation, an act of a daughter’s devotion to the memory of her father, from
whom, over a lifetime, she tries to be free yet unable to. Yes, Affandi has the
macho way of dragging, slashing and wiggling his paints; so has Kartika, but
with a difference , for hers has a profound touch, even when she is burning
with fury, of the feminine. She is convinced, with a body of works to back her up,
which her stature as an artist in her own right shall prevail.”
Title : Peace :
Expressions of Hope- An International Art Exhibition
Year : 2009
ISBN : 978-967-5277-03-0
Number
of pages : 56
Price
: RM 50
Featured
artists : Cazim Sarajlic, Merima
Turbic, Senka Hukic, Dayang Ampuan Siti Ramlah, Dayang Armachester Arsad,
Zakaria Omar, Pg. Timbang, Bayu Widodo, Djunaidi Kenyut, Januri, Kartika
Affandi, Mahdi Abdullah, Badruddin Syah Abdul Wahab, bayu Utomo Radjikin,
Haslin Ismail, Long thien Shih, Mohd Safwan ahmad, raja ahmad aminullah, Rahmat
Harun, Ramlan Abdullah, Ruzzeki Haris, Samsuddin Abdul Wahab, Syed Ahmad Jamal,
Tan Sei Hon, Abdul Rahman Katanani, Rouhaiffa Qassim, Ahmad A. Bakar, S. Mohdir,
Suhaimi Sukiyar,
Curator
: raja ahmad
aminullah
Excerpts
“The longer the
distance, the less are we to empathise with the victims of wars, the innocents,
the women, the children and the elderly. For us to grasp the pain, the loss and
tragedy of these sufferings, we would have to depend on the cameramen, the
photographers and artists whose works are better than a thousand words. These
pictures and images can show us the moments of agony, the blood and guts of the
horror that befall these victims of war and terror.”
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Title : Post Gothic Dreams : The Art of Khairul Azmir
Shoib ( MEME)
Year : 2009
ISBN : 978-967-5277-01-6
Number
of pages : 34
Price
: RM 50
Featured artist : Khairul Azmir Shoib ( MEME)
Curator
: Safrizal Shahir
Excerpts
“ .....his artworks are not a secret to those
in the know or those in the art
fraternity generally. His works are an expression of the subliminal ; or of a
certain consciousness that lies underneath
the surface. The fact that he chooses gothic or post-gothic symbols is merely a
reiteration of how members of the current or younger generations perceive
things. It is how they see the realities subsisting in the world..”
Title : Mad(e) in Malaysia – Amir Zainorin Solo
Exhibition at the Brick
Lane Gallery London
Year : 2009
ISBN : 978-967-5277-02-3
Number
of pages : 40
Price
: RM 59
Featured artist : Amir Zainorin
Curator
: Badrolhisham Mohamad Tahir
Excerpts
“ Mad(e) in Malaysia is an exhibition that
shows how the process of identification forms the artistic identity of the
artist-amir Zainorin. In that process, Amir seemingly creates his works based
on the works of the people he follows with the hope that he can identify
himself as someone who is free, active and independent. While Amir spends his
time creating art, he is also thinking about his identity as he interacts with
art: Am I a Malaysian artist? Or an artist who comes from Malaysia. Does my
national identity determine the way I work? Or is my work a reflection of the
different cultural directions I am influenced by? ”
Title : ‘Exorsismus Pesona: Tingkap Tingkap Dunia
Fantasi Haslin Ismail
Year : 2009
ISBN : 978-967-5277-04-7
Number
of pages : 21
Price
: RM 22
Featured artist : Haslin Ismail
Guest
writer : Zainol Abidin bin Ahmad Shariff
Excerpts
“As a young
contemporary artist, Haslin has striven , through his artworks, to portray his
dreams, hopes and aspirations in a very engaging manner. This is because, in
addition to being a serious full-time artist, he is also an avid reader. ”
Title : The Art of Mansor Ghazalli 1953-2008
Year : 2009
ISBN : 978-967-5277-05-4
Number
of pages : 67
Price
: RM 50
Featured artist : Mansor Ghazalli
Curator : Prof. Dr. Zakaria Ali
Excerpts
“ Mansor Ghazalli
readily admits that he paints for pleasure. If a work is unfinished, for
whatever reason, it is because he does not need to finish it. He seldom
re-paints, once the oils are dried. Mansor Ghazalli selects the barest
outlines, just enough to go on, to begin tickling his picture-making
adrenaline. He never knows what the painting is going to look like. The
important thing for him is to begin; whatever happens at the end of the session
happens. ”
Title : Dikalajingga: Dari
kerana mata........
Year : 2009
ISBN : 967-5277-06-1
Number
of pages : -
Price
: RM 22
Featured
artists : Haris Ahmad hamsani,
Khairina Khairuddin, Nurazmal yusoff Ali @ Ali, Suddin Lappo,
Zulkiflee Zainul
Abidin
Curator
: Badrolhisham
Mohammad Tahir
Excerpts
“ Seniman-seniman
Dikalajingga boleh dikatakan mahu keluar dari kepompong itu lalu mengimpikan
‘pencerahan’ agar mereka boleh menghasilkan satu bentuk visual dan idea yang
indikatif. Lantaran itu, mereka percaya bahawa dengan membangunkan teknik yang
sopistikated dan dengan mempertajamkan deria estetik, mereka mampu bersaing
dalam dunia seni kontemporari Malaysia.”
Title : B.A.C.A :
Suara-suara Rupa
Year : 2009
ISBN : 978-967-5277-07-8
Number
of pages : 35
Price
: RM 29
Featured
artists : Samsudin Wahab a.k.a ‘
Buden’, Ruzekki Haris a.k.a ‘Aki’, Mohd Fazli Othman a.k.a ‘
Chik’, Helmi Azam
Tajol Aris a.k.a ‘Azam’
Curator
: Mohamad Majidi
Amir
Excerpts
“ Sebagai seniman
visual yang mewakili suara anak muda kini, mereka amat sensitive terhadap isu
yang timbul dalam arena kehidupan masyarakat dan mereka mempunyai pendapat
peribadi dan tersendiri tentang apa yang berlaku. Pendekatan social realism,
surrealist dan black humour menjadi pilihan mereka yang sememangnya amat sesuai
bagi seorang seniman untuk berkongsi jiwa atau dengan kata lain menyampaikan
apa yang dirasa kepada masyarakat dan bukannya dengan mazhab abstrak
ekspressionis yang hanya difahami oleh golongan elit yang belajar seni sahaja. ”
Title : Take 5 : The Rest
is (His)tory
Year : 2009
ISBN : 978-967-5277-08-5
Number
of pages : 38
Price
: RM 29
Featured
artists : Kamal Mustafa, Mahsun
Hj. Taib, Syed Bakar Syed Salim, Zainuddin Jamil, Zabas
Curator
: Zabas
Excerpts
“Collectively their
works are a mixture of abstract and figurative images that are inspired by
histories and motifs ranging from as far away as Persia and the African
continent to the intrigues of the court
of old Malacca and more recent sociocultural
and personal experiences. History as they think of and play with, whether
in terms of events, ideas, or in conjunction with present day conditions.
Fondly remembering their late history teacher, Mr. Desmond Muzaffar Tate, (
although he and Syed Bakar were colleagues and bosom friends, he taught the
others some useful history too), they dedicate this exhibition that
aesthetically responds to (His)tory, to the memory of the wonderful teacher,
friend and personality that MR TATE was.”
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