Hosting an art exhibition is always an honour. Galeri Prima continuously welcome artists from all sorts of background to showcase their talents and work of arts.
Closing our 2018 chapter, Galeri Prima is pleased to organise a group exhibition featuring 17 Malaysian artists, a mixture of young, emerging and senior artists with different artistic backgrounds.
This is the second exhibition after Ambiguity held last year at Galeri Prima. From twelve artists to seventeen, from Ambiguity to Mindscape, from ambiguous to the land of the mind. The artists boggling with their minds and thoughts and translated it into an extraordinary – beyond the norm works of art.
Through the exploration of various styles and words, they direct the landscape of their minds to produce the fruits of their vision.
Mindscape is on view from 12 November – 21 December 2018, display strong body of works from Abdullah Jones, Ahmad Fauzi, Aely Manaf, Azman Nor, Hamdan Saarani, Jamil Mat Isa, Johan Marjonid, Liu Cheng Hua, Nor Hanem Mohd Nor, Norlisham Nor, Nurul Ashikin Habeni Hajar, Rosli Zakaria, Sharmiza Abu Hassan, Zaharin Mohammad, Zaim Durulaman, Zainon Abdullah and Zarina Abdullah.
80 works including paintings, sculptures, printmaking, relief drawing, relief assemblage and mixed media; presented a contemplative exhibition that explores the complexities of how our own minds and thoughts associate in us.
Mindscape exhibits the artists experiment and discovery on unconventional ways of engaging intuition and enhancing creative abilities. Ultimately inviting us to think and understand the meaning of each work.
This can be seen in the work by Zaim Durulaman, who added a bee to symbolised tadabbur that requires us to think and understand Quranic verses. Honeybee is mentioned in two verses of Surah 16:68-69 – And your Lord inspired the bee: “Set up hives in the mountains, and in the trees, and in what they construct. Then eat of all the flowers and fruits, and go along the pathways of your Lord, with precision. From their bellies emerges a fluid of diverse colors, containing healing for the people. Surely in this is a sign for people who reflect.
Among the distinct works in the show are the celebrated relief drawing and relief assemblage by Rosli Zakaria and Liu Cheng Hua. Both uses discarded items as the medium to compose their works into beyond elegant subject matter, which are intrinsic to the artist imagination and memories.
Buddha once said We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
Learn more about the exhibition: E-Catalogue
