November 2014 is certainly a landmark month for Artemis Art. Not only did we turn 3 years old this month, but for the first time we participated in a foreign art fair. And the art fair we chose to debut for our first outing outside of Malaysia...
BORN: 1971 in Kedah, Malaysia Click on any thumbnail for larger image [nggallery id=58] Sabri Idrus is a visionary young contemporary artist, recognized as one of the country’s important emerging artists. His art aims at liberating what he sees as the socio-cultural dogma in the visual language of Malaysian...
BORN: 1968 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia Click on any thumbnail for larger image [nggallery id=57] The artworks of Budi Ubrux are almost immediately recognizable. The figures in this realist painter’s works are almost always draped in newspaper, a style the artist has been doing since the late 1990s. His works...
In the month of November 2014, the photography aspect of the book is further expanded when Born In Malaysia: A Photographer’s Journey makes its way up to Penang for a month-long exhibition at Vic’s in ChinaHouse, George Town (one floor above The Canteen).
It’s a well-known fact that certain traits and mannerisms are passed down from one generation to the next. But what about artistic talent?
This year’s Art Expo Malaysia concluded over the last weekend. If you think you recognize these pieces from the art fair, you’d be absolutely right. Artemis Art is happy to announce that for a limited time, these Indonesian artworks will be hosted at the gallery, and...
That idea that humans are pattern seeking creatures is not a new one. How we make sense of what we see around us will differ from one individual to the next, and depends on many factors, such as the person's cumulative life experiences, his or her emotional state, in other words, building blocks of a person's internal cognitive mechanism.
The answer to the questions posed above will vary from one individual to the next, depending on how each person’s cognitive mechanism ticks.
The Born In Malaysia Unity Exhibition, a collaboration between Artemis Art and photographer Kenny Loh, is currently on at The Boulevard, Level G2 Publika Shopping Gallery, in Solaris Dutamas, Kuala Lumpur.
One of the interesting components of the exhibition is the Unity Wall, where visitors to the exhibition can scribble or draw their thoughts on Unity, and what it means to them. What we asked was a very simple:
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The simple question we asked on the Unity Wall[/caption]
When photographer Kenny Loh published Born In Malaysia last year, it was a culmination of three years' worth of work documenting what is arguably a superb chronicle of the vast cultural diversity that has made this nation the envy of many. The attention and traction the book...
The word spontaneous has a few meanings, depending on context. One of these definitions is the idea of a natural inclination or impulse, and the absence of external stimuli.
SPONTANEOUS #1 is the first project by CONJOIN, the fledgling art collective recently formed, and brings together four artists with very varied styles. In its current configuration, the collective consists of C.C. Kua, Celine Wong, Nicholas Choong, and founder T.W. Chang, more popularly known as Skinner.