| Victor Chin is a Kuala Lumpur-based artist and photographer. |
Can art and art education flourish without race?
September 16, 2012SEPT 16 — Segaris Art Center is a new art gallery in Kuala Lumpur. This establishment, a subsidiary of UiTM Holdings, is the first showcase for all the fine art graduates from the university. It will operate like any other commercial gallery but the commission they charge artists will be below market rate.The title of their first exhibition in May this year … Read More
Art decentralised: The Open Art Show
August 05, 2012AUG 5 — The Shah Alam Art Gallery was established 21 years ago by the Selangor government and was the brain child of the present Sultan of Selangor.The gallery is situated in an idyllic setting by the lake in the public park at the centre of the town. This park is a hive of activity on weekends. There are also a few shopping centres and hotels in the … Read More
Art and a sense of equality
July 08, 2012JULY 8 — Muar town in Johor and Malacca town in Malacca share a very similar geography and historical background. These two towns are an hour’s drive from each other. Both towns started as early seafarers’ settlements at the mouth of the river. However the Muar River is by far the more prominent in both size and length compared to the Malacca River even … Read More
Sultan Street: A look at its changing character
June 03, 2012JUNE 3 — Jalan Sultan is one of the early streets of Kuala Lumpur. In the 1900s most of the buildings were mainly shophouses, whether single- or double-story. This confluence of the Klang and Gombak Rivers which we now know as Kuala Lumpur soon became the commercial centre of the then-Malaya which was under British rule.The largest group of residents were … Read More
Art and the fishing village of Sasaran
April 22, 2012APRIL 22 — Sasaran is one of the many small Chinese fishing villages by the river in the northern tip of Selangor. It’s about 10 km south from the biggest fishing village, Kuala Selangor.Many of these traditional fishing communities are hardworking and frugal. Their lives are often limited to their surrounding villages. Most of these families are … Read More
The writing (or decorations) is on the wall
July 31, 2011JULY 31 — As the legend goes, Malacca was founded by Parameswara, the fugitive with his group fleeing from Singapore, about 500 years ago. Later he went on to establish the first Malacca Sultanate in the 15th century.At that time Malacca was a natural port that sheltered the sailors from the north-east and south-west monsoons in this region. The monsoons … Read More
Picture writing, mountain water
May 22, 2011MAY 22 — The urgent challenges of the environment, especially its growing ecological degradation, have never been an explicit concern in the 2,600 year-history of the Chinese art of landscape painting.The Shan Shui (mountain water) artists are more concerned with the aesthetics of the landscape, their experience of looking it and their methods of capturing … Read More
The slow death of Tasik Chini
May 08, 2011MAY 8 — The area and community of Tasik Chini was what attracted a group of Asian Public Intellectuals (API) to gather there last year. This group of about 30, with two members each from Indonesia, Japan, Philippines and Thailand with the remaining number from Malaysia, was there as part of their regional project based on the common element — water.Tasik … Read More
Celebrating the ACS 100
March 27, 2011MARCH 27 — During the British colonial times, over a hundred years ago, in Melaka, there were already five Christian missionary schools. But of course, an early metropolitan port like Melaka would have many other forms of schooling for the early trading communities like the Chinese, Indians, etc. as well.These five early schools are still in Melaka today. … Read More
Goodbye to an artist who chronicled Malaysia
January 09, 2011JAN 9 — Tan Choon Ghee was one of the few Malaysian painters who had an eye and empathy for the common people (especially Penangites) and their multi- cultural daily street life. His highly-developed aesthetic sense could turn ordinary life at a street corner in his hometown of George Town into an exquisite watercolour, sketch, ink or oil painting.Sadly, … Read More
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