Latiff Mohidin: Journey to Wetlands and Beyond

This monograph is published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title held at the Singapore Art Museum from March to May 2009. The exhibition featured drawings and works on paper that Malaysian artist Latiff Mohidin created between 1962 and 2006. It was the first extensive display devoted primarily to his works on paper. This monograph categorises the works into the following themes: 'Pago-Pago', 'Langkawi, Mindscape', 'Sketches for Sculpture', 'Guilin, Bukhara, Samarkhan, Isfahan', 'Gelombang, Rimba', 'Interior Landscape, Landscape', 'Voyage, The Well, Gita', and 'Wetlands'. It includes an essay by T.K. Sabapathy, a transcribed conversation between Latiff Mohidin, T.K. Sabapathy and Patricia L. de la Motte, a brief artist biography and selected bibliography.

Publisher: Singapore Art Museum
Author Biography: T. K. Sabapathy, born in 1938, is Singapore’s foremost art historian, curator and critic. For four decades, he has devoted his life to the research, documentation and support of contemporary visual arts in Singapore and Malaysia.He has been a lecturer of art history at the National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological Institution and National Institute of Education. He set up and headed Singapore’s pioneer art research facilities, the Contemporary Asian Art Centre and subsequently, Asia Contemporary. He has also written countless articles, books, catalogues and artist monographs, making an invaluable contribution to the study of art in Southeast Asia, and is well respected for his scholarship and beloved for his tireless advocacy of art and artists of Singapore and Malaysia. Latiff Mohidin is Malaysia's leading modernist painter-poet. Born in Seremban, Pak Latiff, as he is popularly knows to serious art collectors, was a child prodigy and has become an artist virtuoso of epic reputation. One of the early modenists in Malaysia, he studied at the Hochschile for Buldende Kunst (Academy of Fine Arts) in Berlin from 1960-1964 on an German scholarship. Naturally, his earlier influences bear traces of German expressionism. Latiff later embarked on a tour of Southeast Asia, which included countries like Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Indonesia. In 1969, he furthered his studies in printmaking at the Atelier La Courrier in Paris on another scholarship. In the same year, he went to Pratt Institute of New York on a John D.Rockefeller III scholarship.
Language: English
Country of Origin: Singapore
Page count: 160
Binding: Hardcover
Search words: Latiff Mohidin, Malaysia, Singapore, Langkawi, Wetlands