Galeri Petronas
PETRONAS ART COLLECTION: SERIES 3 NARRATIVE STRAINS
Features 34 artists through 90 artworks.
"Narrative Strains" is an attempt to decipher the multi-layered and multi-functional messages contained in theartworks. The layers are known as "texts" and together make up a textual narrative of what the author wants to say through his/her manner of "telling". The importance of the "reader" adds to the many ways of the reading of the picture. The reader is the interpreter and how she interprets may add to the discussion of the work in question.
The exhibition is an acknowledgement of the need to continually discuss our visual arts heritage within a critical framework. As their counterparts elsewhere have done for centuries, Malaysian artists have used canvas to record past, existing and disappearing lifestyles, customs, traditions, identity and heritage.
The exhibits include simple drawings and paintings such as those by artist Tan Wei Khen which captures details of adornment accompanying the costumes worn by people of the different trib~s of his native Sarawak; Lucy Liew's and Awang Damit's narrations of rural life, such as farming community, in their abstract works; the batik paintings of Ismail Mat Husin which present the idealic lifestyle in a more romanticised manner; and Ismail Latirs paintings which are full of tales and legends. Visuals are also narrated in an entertaining way as Lat did in his comic narration of the travelling Chinese opera performing at yet another small town stage.
"Narrative Strains" is in itself a narrative of Malaysian concerns. Whether the narrative is real or imagined; provoked or imposed; political or social, they interwined to document the spirit and attributes of a nation and its people.
Duration: 18 August 2005 until1 January 2006
Location: Level3, Suria KLCC. Tel: 03-20517770/7773 Fax: 03-20512895
It is open to the public from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m every day except Monday. Entrance is free.
For further infonnation about the exhibition or to arrange for interviews, please contact Nonninshah Hamzah at 03-2331 4829 or nonninshah@petronas.com.my
Features 34 artists through 90 artworks.
"Narrative Strains" is an attempt to decipher the multi-layered and multi-functional messages contained in theartworks. The layers are known as "texts" and together make up a textual narrative of what the author wants to say through his/her manner of "telling". The importance of the "reader" adds to the many ways of the reading of the picture. The reader is the interpreter and how she interprets may add to the discussion of the work in question.
The exhibition is an acknowledgement of the need to continually discuss our visual arts heritage within a critical framework. As their counterparts elsewhere have done for centuries, Malaysian artists have used canvas to record past, existing and disappearing lifestyles, customs, traditions, identity and heritage.
The exhibits include simple drawings and paintings such as those by artist Tan Wei Khen which captures details of adornment accompanying the costumes worn by people of the different trib~s of his native Sarawak; Lucy Liew's and Awang Damit's narrations of rural life, such as farming community, in their abstract works; the batik paintings of Ismail Mat Husin which present the idealic lifestyle in a more romanticised manner; and Ismail Latirs paintings which are full of tales and legends. Visuals are also narrated in an entertaining way as Lat did in his comic narration of the travelling Chinese opera performing at yet another small town stage.
"Narrative Strains" is in itself a narrative of Malaysian concerns. Whether the narrative is real or imagined; provoked or imposed; political or social, they interwined to document the spirit and attributes of a nation and its people.
Duration: 18 August 2005 until1 January 2006
Location: Level3, Suria KLCC. Tel: 03-20517770/7773 Fax: 03-20512895
It is open to the public from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m every day except Monday. Entrance is free.
For further infonnation about the exhibition or to arrange for interviews, please contact Nonninshah Hamzah at 03-2331 4829 or nonninshah@petronas.com.my
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