Asian Art Dominates at Malaysia Expo

By Ooi Kok Chuen

November 2018 PENANG PALETTE
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Heri Dono's kinetic installation from the gilt-edged international collection of world elite collector Datuk Noor Azman Nurdin.
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The economic prognosis for art in South-East Asia may still be relatively soft, but the plethora of new mega international events certainly begs belief. That may be one reason existing outfits like Art Expo Malaysia Plus (AEM+), now in its 12th year as the longest-running uninterrupted art fair in South-East Asia, felt galvanised to up the ante in order to survive the uncompromising international-fairs musical chairs.Francis Bacon's Figure At A Wash Basin (1977) etching and aquatint on paper (Spain's ATR...

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Ooi Kok Chuen

is an art-writer and journalist, and the author of MAHSURI: A Legend Reborn (Ooi Peeps Publishing), an adult contemporary fantasy “movel” (a novel conceived as a mock movie) spun from a local legend.


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