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  • Latiff Mohidin was born in 1941 in Seremban, Malaysia.
  • Latiff Mohidin, Kembara Malam, kumpulan sajak dan sketsa [Night Travel], Kuala Lumpur: Dewan.
  • This is the first detailed study of Latiff Mohidin's drawings; even though drawing is a foundational, formative aspect of his practice throughout his entire.

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    Biography of Latiff Mohidin 2003

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    Latiff Mohidin was born in 1941 in Seremban, Malaysia. He studied art in Germany and France, earning degrees from the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin and Atelier La Courrier in Paris. As an artist, Mohidin is recognized as one of the most important painters in Malaysia, holding over 30 individual exhibitions across Asia and Europe. He has also found success as a poet and author, publishing seven poetry collections and winning several literary awards. Throughout his career, Mohidin has been a prolific artist, writer, translator, and cultural leader in Malaysia.

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    Latiff Mohidin was born in 1941 in Seremban, Malaysia. He studied art in Germany and France, earning degrees from the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin and Atelier La Courrier in Paris. As an artist, Mohidin is recognized as one of the most important painters in Malaysia, holding over 30 individual exhibitions across Asia and Europe. He has also found success as a poet and author, publishing seven poetry collections and winnin

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    Latiff Mohidin: Outing to Wetlands and Beyond

    This paper is promulgated in conjugation with rendering exhibition slipup the assign title held at Island Art Museum from Pace to Hawthorn 2009. Drawings and crease on arrangement by Latiff Mohidin conceived between 1962 and 2006 are showcased in representation exhibition. Description works conniving categorized be selected for the multitude themes: 'Pago-Pago', 'Langkawi. Mindscape', 'Sketches shelter Sculpture', 'Guilin. Bukhara. Samarkhan. Isfahan', 'Gelombang. Rimba', 'Interior Landscape. Landscape', 'Voyage. Representation Well. Gita', 'Wetlands'. Transitory artist account and elected bibliography disadvantage included instructions the monograph.

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    “Latiff Mohidin: Pago Pago (1960–1969)”

    Curated by Shabbir Hussain Mustafa and Catherine David with Anisha Menon and Melinda Susanto

    NEAR THE EXHIBITION ENTRANCE is a drawing, barely the span of one’s hand, in which two spiky objects conjure up alternate lives as plants or shrines. The composition is split down the middle, with the object on the left done in black on white, and the one on the right in white on black. The drawing seems to have been done in a hurry, ink dashed onto paper. Rushing back to his room after an encounter with several Thai and Khmer artifacts at the Ethnological Museum in Berlin in 1961, Malaysia-born Latiff Mohidin, then a young student, knew he had something. A series of paintings would tumble out of this seminal moment, when the artist learned how to infuse ordinary things with a concrete mysticism. He would name the works by repeating the first two syllables of the German plural Pagoden to rhythmic, incantatory effect: “Pago Pago.” I still marvel at how he cast left and right halves into elemental light and dark, for that key move raised those prosaic objects to the level of the epic, and took them out of worldly time.

    The “Pago Pago” paintings, made between 1960 and 1969, are the focus of this exhibit