4.11.07
[ma-li pes-sta a-ri a-ri] [tan-jong i-tuo bi-kin] series, interact-able painting
"we" belong to street don't put "us" in the museum! ? (1st prize in Penang Young Contemporary Art Exhibition)
13.10.07
23.9.07
11.9.07
Menifesto of “Dead-centre Complementary” [Destructiveness]
Manifesto of “Dead-centre complementary”
Against rule of thirds, is to break off norm perspective to provoke new concept that destruct human being thinking. Reconstruction of the philosophy of harmony must interpreted George Field Chromatics, rule of thirds 1845.
“93. Sir Joshua has given it as a rule, that the proportion of warm to cold colour in a picture should be as two to one, although he has frequently deviated therefrom; and Smith, in his “Remarks on Rural Scenery,” would extend a like rule to all the proportions of painting, begging for it the term of the “rule of thirds,” according to which, a landscape, having one third of land, should have two-third of water, and these together, forming about one-third of the picture, the remaining two-thirds to be for air and sky; and he applies the same rule to the crossing and breaking of lines and objects, & c.”
Beside according to rule of third, 4 crossing line form interactive and attractive spots called power point. Placements of subject-matters have advice to locate on or near the power point to enhance the optimum visual impact. Revolution has made, where non-of the primary visual data have place on the power point. Manifesto of “Dead-centre complementary” should shout out, “Dead-centre shouldn’t be avoided but it should implement! “Indirectly synchronisation between varieties of balance principles; gravity force have been created; where the revolved red heart ball is flooding on the airspace between sins and saint dimension. The composition is more than 2 dimensional balance points, understanding of virtual 3-D spatial must discuss. The composition is confrontational where the imagery on the right side stand out strongly and capture viewer breath for couple of second, and force viewers read as much possible visual information at once. Expose violence to viewers directly, but how far we say: this is symmetrical balance, no mirror imagery.
Besides, the composition is not asymmetrical balance, the red revolved heart play a main role as the centre point of the composition. Contrast between sins and saints have well depicted via the placement of elements and colour matching. Briefly, the portion of colour studies is 50%-50% static harmony in between hue and black. It neither complementary harmony nor triad or tetrad harmony of the colour balances. Again exploitation of failure of colour theory, destructiveness has been provoked. The abnormal colour scheme not only attracted viewer eye negatively, beside it psycho viewer mindscape and force pressure of society taboo tales to let viewer fall into long term interpretation of the visual essay.
“Dead-centre” complementary should suggest as solution to reinvent between minimalism and maximalism, where minimalism is the summary of idea and concept or a filtration of information. Besides, maximalism enhance information thought artist self experience in life that it can be transfer into single piece of work.
“... Chinese Maximalism emphasises the spiritual experience of the artist in the process of the artistic creation and their self contemplation outside and beyond...”Sarena Abdullah (2005), Chinese Maximalism: A New Artistic Methology?, sentAp!, Comtemporary Visual Art Magazine, Issue 1 jul-oct 2005.
But how far the manifesto work? And how far the hypothesis can realise and adapted?
Destructiveness
Destructing…
Refering Pago-pago,
Read sentAp! Issue 5,
Attending Dr. Zek’s lecture,
Discussing Malaysian Modernist,
Attending Rahime’s Talk,
Listening to Modernist Chit-chat,
Waiting for apprearing Latiff
In Penang Artist’s Favourite Show!
It really…Destructed
“Pago-pago”ing my mentality,
Confusing my studies,
Blocking my thinking processes,
Awaking myself,
Shocking me, New input,
Rise up my curiosity,
I’m waiting, waiting and waiting…
End up
Disappointing.
& Impredictably…
“…through binary oppositions, like good/evils, day/night, man/woman, culture/nature, being/non-being, and that it is the non-being of its opposite that gives meaning to a term rather than it’s self/identity.” (Osbone, Richard. 2001. Megawords. Allen&Unwin: 45)
“Pago-pago: Bangkok seumpama corak cendawan yang bertumbuh rambang,” (Dr. Zakaria Ali, Malaysian Modern Art lecture, Feb 2007.)
“… pameran kembara yang saya berasa kecewa semenjak melangkah ke dalam Galeri Petronas minggu yang lepas…” (Dr. Zakaria Ali, Malaysian Modern Art lecture, Feb 2007.)
“Latiff, pelukis yang rajin and passionate, sejak Pago-pago, Mindscape, Gelombang, Langkawi dan, kini Voyage.. beliau giat melukis, setiap satu lukisan siap, beliau mendokumentasikan, mula-mula menggunakan slaid, sehingga digital, konsistensi beliau tak pernah lemah… Voyage walaupun ditundah tarikh siap tetapi siri yang beliau banyak struggling… pameran yang berjaya…” (Rahime, Malaysian Art Dialer, Fine Art As Business Seminar, March 2007)
31.8.07
22.8.07
[pot-luck(Purdue普渡) tan-jong] - [tan-jong i-tuo bi-kin] series (Interactive perfomance), 26th August 2007, 8.30pm, Ghara Seni Tanjong Art Gallery
Synopsis
People said, there are 7 spirits "rasuk" in me, and they said I'm not going to stay for long. And they said again, I going to perform suicide, cause by the spirits. They said, there are big evils inside my body and control my move daily, and slowly I going to perform into devil. I'm going to revolve into different person, like living in hell. Who am I? I'm a devil or a human being? What should I do? ... Please Purdue I ... release me ...
[pot-luck(Purdue普渡) tan-jong] = 1. Penang's Potluck
2. Purdue (pray for) Penang
3. tan-jong = Penang
[tan-jong i-tuo bi-kin] = made in Penang
Project supervisor:
Performers:
Cinematographer:
Juwiriah bt Mandor Baru
Siti Sarah bt Abu Bakar
Photographer:
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15.8.07
10.8.07
21.7.07
Taring anu: terang anu, 4' x 3', arcylic, 2007
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Detail
(conslolation prize in Citra Terengganu 2007 & permenant collection of Lembaga Muzium Negeri Terengganu)
28.6.07
X-Carnival: Taring Anu Story, stencil on glass, 23" x 28", 2007
Wondering of the story of taring anu;
later there is a land called tringganu.
Wondering of the animals studies;
from the islamic prespective,
animal habitat loss and stay away from human society.
Wondering of the Kapcai;
new defination have make,
and the aerodynamic pose are practice,
in illegal street race.
Wondering of the cctv and human right;
no-word to say, for the future,
whose is going to predice how it perform in local society?
Think-wise this might be the window to let's us see from the different prepective!
4.6.07
Meditation Framework: mindset building, ink illustration on tracing paper, 2007
(Tanjong Heritage 2007 - 1st prize in illustration category, Tanjong public limited company's collection, 2007)
[see]ing, [memori]zing puzzle, interact-able painting, 2007
(Tanjong Heritage 2007 - 2nd prize in mixed media category,
Tanjong public limited company's collection, 2007)
Darkroom come-back
The mother of printing industry: Darkroom
Less people heard about darkroom nowadays, to print a good picture, they are prefer digital printing shop, photostat shop or Xerox, home used injet printer, photo-enhanced injet printer or others digital output devices. Young generation in the rapid developing IT era claim new definition for printer, whereby in 10 years before “printer” always refer to darkroom operator, offset operator or print-maker in town.
“Using black and white film, photographers could control every step of the photographic process.” (Darkroom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia), means that in the darkroom, operator still can do amendment, alteration, improvement on the image quality. Darkroom is a unique entity, specific part of the darkroom to gain variety of effect. “The heart of most darkrooms is the enlarger, an optical apparatus similar to a slide projector that projects the image (usually) of a negative down onto a base. On the base, a sheet of photographic paper, typically either Resin-coated or fibre-based paper, is exposed to the (usually) enlarged image from the negative.” (Darkroom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) Beside enlarger; grade filters, developer, stop bath, fixer and etc. are important to print every single picture.
“…software and techniques used in digital photography that replace the darkroom equivalents, such as enlarging, cropping, burning and dodging, as well as processes that don't have a film equivalent.” Traditional darkroom has been catalyst architectural programmer to develop digital image generation software or some practitioner mention as digital darkroom. Refer to the summaries on Wikipedia.com, Photoshop, recent version CS 2, is the famous and the most powerful imaging software, and won a few times best software of the years from several publications. Adobe brilliantly develop simplified version called Photoshop Elements, and bring up camera manufactures interest to buy the copyright and pair together of their products. Some they are prefer Adobe Bridge that is thumbnails of photographs storage and management digitally. Adobe Camera Raw able to convert any RAW format of market digital cameras into useable format such as jpeg, bmp and etc. for digital printers. (Digital Darkroom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) New Photoshop CS 2 featured with self-made contact sheet in the new feature called automate> Contact Sheet II> and just browse to the file destination and CS 2 will automatically product contact sheet according to user defined.
“Paint Shop Pro (or "PSP") is popular image-editing application that competes with Photoshop as a commercial product. The Gimp is an open-source (and hence, free) image-editing application. It's used less commonly because many photographers find it difficult to operate, although newer versions show improvement here. Capture One is a "workflow tool," and considered by many to be the best RAW converter around. This is a commercial product, and among the more expensive. Other RAW conversion tools include: Bibble, QImage, dcraw, software from the camera manufacturers, and many others; almost all of them are commercial.” (Digital Darkroom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
The invention has made a giant revolution in local photography and printing industry. S&W Digital Photo Sdn Bhd is the first owner of PS 3000 computerized minilab in Penang. (Source: Mr. Song Jin Tek, professional photographer). PS 3000 with a film scanner that able to convert film into digital storage in variety formats, mostly market prefer jpeg, but bmp and tiff can give better resolution and finest pixel. “Common formats for digital camera images are the Joint Photography Experts Group standard (JPEG) and Tagged Image File Format (TIFF)” (Digital Camera - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) This bring up a new input to graphic industry, especially in Penang, digital camera is very important and become instant imagery producing tools to help in their ideas generation. “An autonomous device, such as a PictBridge printer, operates without need of a computer. The camera connects to the printer, which then downloads and prints its images. Some DVD recorders and television sets can read memory cards too. Several types of flash card readers also have a TV output capability.” (Digital Camera - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Darkroom is essential for education purposes, and Computer Generation Imagery (CGI) still the convenient method nowadays. CGI make huge contribution in graphic, film-making, web-design, publication, Fine art and even photography itself. Preserve the mother and care the child. This is brief idea from Mr. Song Jin Tek, professional photographer when in mini photography forum, organized by USM Photo Club on the 17 of March 2007.
29.5.07
Catch it.. fast... or regrad?!
Time
is and powerful
element in life,
it :
influence;
?! waiting,rushing,revolving....
From seed become tree;
from saint become evil !?
That is life,
should learn!!
(don't lost it!)
1.5.07
International Pinhole Day 2007
"no one in the school today, restday + term holiday... but 4 of us still hunging around! 8x10 Ilford MGV Multigrade IV RC De Luxe, 6"x6"x8" DIY pinhole camera, 15 minutes exposed. Printing: f/5.6 13sec. under enlarger Venue: School of Art, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia."
25.4.07
Latiff's [Express]ion+Log
Voyage
It was a studies trip, far, traveled
From the northern to the middle
Of the Peninsular;
What was the hell? Traveling? Damn!
Reached Petronas Gallery
At the time, sun hanged top of my head, hot day!!
The fisrt step in!!
God damn!! Saw the word Voyage!!
Was it a “Voyage” to me?
Cool! Air conditioning! Stepped in, tired feet, lazy mind, sit down
Blue, white, heavy stroke, attracted me
What is the hell? Splashed of paint?
Cleaned, fogged glasses, observed carefully!!
Those are not simple strokes…
Cool, calm, quite, clear, static, but flooding..
No story? Non-statement?
Maybe…
Just a simple documentation, Latiff’s life
Simple, relaxing, enjoyable, elegant,
But lonely.
Latiff Mohidin’s code – expression reading
Read poems, comprehend idealogy, “see” artworks
And feel Latiff’s tune.
“Latiff, after returning from art school in Germany, soon added a local theme to his work resulting in the Pago Pago Series.” (Dr. Jolly Koh, Some Misconceptions in Art Writing In Malaysia*, sentAp! Issue 5 nov 06-jan 07)
“The Expressionist does not look, he sees.” (Kasimir Edschmid, a German writer, 1890-1966.)
“Expressionist art is not an impression from outside but an expression from inside.” (Herewath Walden, the German artist, 1879-1941.)
Destructiveness
Destructing…
Refering Pago-pago,
Read sentAp! Issue 5,
Attending Dr. Zek’s lecture,
Discussing Malaysian Modernist,
Attending Rahime’s Talk,
Listening to Modernist Chit-chat,
Waiting for apprearing Latiff
In Penang Artist’s Favourite Show!
It really…
Destructed
“Pago-pago”ing my mentality,
Confusing my studies,
Blocking my thinking processes,
Awaking myself,
Shocking me, New input,
Rise up my curiosity,
I’m waiting, waiting and waiting…
End up
Disappointing.
&
Impredictably…
“…through binary oppositions, like good/evils, day/night, man/woman, culture/nature, being/non-being, and that it is the non-being of its opposite that gives meaning to a term rather than it’s self/identity.” (Osbone, Richard. 2001. Megawords. Allen&Unwin: 45)
“Pago-pago: Bangkok seumpama corak cendawan yang bertumbuh rambang,” (Dr. Zakaria Ali, Malaysian Modern Art lecture, Feb 2007.)
“… pameran kembara yang saya berasa kecewa semenjak melangkah ke dalam Galeri Petronas minggu yang lepas…” (Dr. Zakaria Ali, Malaysian Modern Art lecture, Feb 2007.)
“Latiff, pelukis yang rajin and passionate, sejak Pago-pago, Mindscape, Gelombang, Langkawi dan, kini Voyage.. beliau giat melukis, setiap satu lukisan siap, beliau mendokumentasikan, mula-mula menggunakan slaid, sehingga digital, konsistensi beliau tak pernah lemah… Voyage walaupun ditundah tarikh siap tetapi siri yang beliau banyak struggling… pameran yang berjaya…” (Rahime, Malaysian Art Dialer, Fine Art As Business Seminar, March 2007)
Offline” Latiff
Online, at Voyage –Kembara opening
Offline, at Artist’s Favourite Showcase
Online for his own teritory
Offline among the modernist
Online of his “Pago-pago”
Offline on his “Voyage”
Online with T K Sabapathy
Offline with Penang State Art Gallery
Online in studio
Offline in public
Online in art history class
Offline in studio class
Latiff only
Online in Penang, Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Tembeling.
Not other.
“…may be of special interest to those who are more familiar with my gesturer works as in my Gelombang and Rimba Series.” (Dr Zakaria Ali Artist’s Favourite: Directory of Penang Artists, Penang State Museum & Art Gallery, 2007)
“In computer technology and telecommunication, on-line and off-line are defined by Federal Standard 1037C. They are states or conditions of a "device or equipment" or of "a functional unit". To be considered on-line, a device must be at least one of:
‘Under the direct control of another device’
‘Under the direct control of the system with which it is associated’
‘Available for immediate use on demand by the system without human intervention’
‘Connected to a system, and is in operation’
‘Functional and ready for service’
while a device that is off-line is not (e.g. it has "its main power source disconnected or turned off’, and is "off-power’).”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offline)
Bibliography
Dr. Jolly Koh, Some Misconceptions in Art Writing In Malaysia*, sentAp! Issue 5 nov 06-jan 07
Dr Zakaria Ali, Artist’s Favourite: Directory of Penang Artists, Penang State Museum & Art Gallery, 2007
Hasnul J Saidon, Ahmad Fuad Osman Dislocated Catalogue, Art Space Gallery, 2007
Qoute, Kasimir Edschmid, a German writer, 1890-1966.
Qoute, Herewath Walden, the German artist, 1879-1941.
Qoute, Osbone, Richard. 2001. Megawords. Allen&Unwin: 45
Qoute, Dr. Zakaria Ali, Malaysian Modern Art lecture, Feb 2007.
Qoute, Rahime, Malaysian Art Dialer, Fine Art As Business Seminar, March 2007
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offline
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destructiveness
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrenology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expressionism
http://www.artnet.com/artist/679971/latiff-mohidin.html
http://www.artsasia.com.my/exhibits/05rare/latiff.html
http://malaysian-arts.blogspot.com/2005/05/art-as-investment.html#comments
http://www.geocities.com/sajak29/moden/latiff/index.htm
http://www.latifm.com/PHP_Nuke/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=137
http://mstar.com.my/cms/content.jsp?id=com.tms.cms.article.Article_494cbc3c-c0a85062-9af3ee00-4489748b
http://malaysian-artist.blogspot.com/2005/05/latiff-mohidin.html
3.4.07
Dare-to-open, interact-able painting, 22" x 16", 2006
(Tanjong public limited company's collection, 2006)
To whom it may concern #1, interact-able painting, 22" x 16", 2006 (destroyed on 11 May 2007)
no one concern, because of the cultural factor, no one read me! only say something rubbish.. so better sent it into waste depot... haha finally have been destroyed!! DESTROYED!!!
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