Join us on Nov 30th at Yee I-Lann’s Fluid World book launch at Valentine Willie Fine Art. This is a RogueArt publication project and we are so proud to be a part of this! Early birds will get a complimentary copy of  New Malaysian Essays 2 with each purchase of I-lann’s book. Don’t miss out! See you soon!

The launch of WORKING and Tara Sosrowardoyo’s exhibition was a success!  A BIG THANK YOU to everyone who made it to Zinc Art Space last Saturday evening! Tara’s works look fantastic in the space, we love it so much we thought we’d share images of the exhibition with you.

Click here for more pictures of the opening event. And here to read a short article about the project in New Straits Times Life & Style section on Sunday, 10.10.10

Join on us on the 2nd of October to celebrate the launch of the publication WORKING, an artists initiated project in association with RogueArt. Spearheaded by Ahmad Zakii Anwar and Jalaini Abu Hassan, WORKING is the principal outcome of the WORK project which began in 2009. Some of you may recall attending the WORK exhibition held earlier in January 2010 at No. 19 Jalan Berangan? (For those who would like to find out more about the exhibition, click here if you are curious)

WORKING focuses on the creative processes of 10 leading Malaysian artists and their relationship with their respective working environments through a series of interviews and photographic documentation. The publication is a modest attempt to uncover each artist’s methodology, to try to make sense of what is often considered a wordless and emotional creative process.

An exhibition entitled 10 Malaysian Artists: Portraits from the WORK Project by Tara Sosrowardoyo will also be presented in conjunction with the book launch. Tara was invited to be the “eyes” of the project, to capture each artist’s portraits which will form the key entries of WORKING. Over a period of two months in 2009, this regionally acclaimed photographer travelled around the Klang Valley, up north to Kuala Kangsar, down south to Melaka and Johor Bahru, spending time with the artists and familiarising himself with their environments.

The exhibition is the result of this two-month shoot. A number of images from this exhibition can be found in WORKING while others are the photographer’s own selection of unpublished images from his sessions with the artists.

The artists for the WORK project are: Ahmad Fuad Osman, Ahmad Shukri Mohamed, Ahmad Zakii Anwar, Chong Siew Ying, Hamir Soib, Jalaini Abu Hassan, Kow Leong Kiang, Raja Shahriman Raja Aziddin, Ramlan Abdullah and Yee I-Lann.

WORKING launch + 10 Malaysian Artists: Portraits from the WORK Project by Tara Sosrowardoyo

will be held at Zinc Art Space
Lot 61, Jalan Maarof, Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur

on 2nd October at 8pm

The exhibition will run from 2 to 12 October 2010
RSVP contact@rogueart.asia +60 16 266 7413 www.rogueart.asia

With thanks to ZINC

Opening hours Monday – Saturday 12pm – 7pm Sundays & Public Holidays open by appointment info@zinc.com.my +6 03 22825388 www.zinc.com.my

The Orang Besar Series: Empires of Privateers and their Glorious Ventures

The exhibition we’ve all been waiting for is now around the corner! RogueArt are very excited to be a part of Yee I-Lann: Boogeyman, in collaboration with Valentine Willie Fine Art. The exhibition opens at MAP. KL this Thursday 16th September – Malaysia Day. It’s been a glorious venture working with Yee I-Lann on this show, which brings together new works in batik, photomedia and pewter as well as key works from the past three years. See our Exhibitions page for more details.

Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri to all our Muslim friends, and Selamat Hari Malaysia to all Malaysians!

(BY)

Tan Nan See, “I Wanna Be A Contemporary Artist”, 2006-2007, Mixed media.

This work is exhibited at Galeri Petronas, KLCC in their exhibition “Young Malaysian Artists – New Objec(tion), 13 July – 3 October 2010.

The dust has now settled from our move to Taman Tunku apartments in March 2010. While we adjust to the cosier dimensions of our office space, Rogue has been working on a few projects at a steady simmer. At present, we are also juggling a couple of unexpected last minute offers which we simply could not refuse.  We thought we’d take a moment to share with you are activities for the upcoming months, in case you are wondering what has been keeping us busy. View/Download the PDF here.

To keep in touch with our activities, join us on Facebook!

Colour, Shape, Quantity, Scale at 15 Jln Mesui

A little late, and we’re rather sad the show is already down, but we’d like to give our 3 thumbs up to Liew Kwai Fei’s exhibition at 15 Jalan Mesui. A sharp clean breath of air, and we loved the way it worked in the unapologetically gritty space. Read more on arteri.

We are in the middle of getting ready for the exhibition “Malaysian Art Friends : Highlights from 15 Private Collections” opening at the National Art Gallery Malaysia this weekend. This exhibition will be held in conjunction with the launch of the book “30 Art Friends : Appreciating Southeast Asia Art”. So, if you are free on Saturday evening, do drop by and join us at the exhibition opening at 8pm on June 26th, 2010. The event will be officiated by Y Bhg Tan Sri Kamarul Ariffin.

National Art Gallery Malaysia
2, Jalan Temerloh, Off Jalan Tun Razak, Kuala Lumpur

The exhibition continues until 20 July 2010

RSVP before 24 June 2010
+603 4026 7000
Noor Elissa
Salma At’riah

We had a chat with our friends at Arteri Malaysia about our involvement with Agus Suwage’s monograph “Still Crazy After All These Years”. Click here to read

For more about Agus Suwage’s work, check out his website here.

(AO)

We’d like to congratulate national laureate Datuk Syed Ahmad Jamal on winning his court case against the Mayor of KL last Friday, and to the courts for their enlightened decision on this landmark case for the Malaysian artist community. The Mayor of KL has been ordered to pay RM750,000 to Datuk Syed for “damages on infringement of moral rights” following the massive alteration of the artist’s Lunar Peaks sculpture (commissioned by UMBC Harta Sdn Bhd in 1985) at Jalan Bandar without his consent. Read the reports in Malaysian Digest and The Star.

We salute Datuk Syed and Datin Hamidah and their legal team for their perseverance. What now for Lunar Peaks however?

(BY)