Art Expo Malaysia Marches On While Others Stumble
By Ooi Kok Chuen
October 2019 PENANG PALETTE
It’s a feat that the International Art Expo Malaysia (AEM) is now in its 13th year, though it is increasingly tough to keep up with the fast-changing game and mounting overheads.Jompet Kuswidananto (Collectors Focus: Dato Azman Norudin).Last year saw the AEM, seen as a middle-roader cutting in between Modernism staples and contemporary titillations, go the full monty, as it were, with the Contemporary, wooing some of the bigger names in South-east Asia.It chalked up increased footfalls, even with a token...
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.
