Aliran abdul latiff mohidin biography

Malaysian modernist painter, sculptor and poet

Abdul Latiff Mohidin or simply Latiff Mohidin (born ) is a Malaysian modernist painter, sculptor and poet. He is generally known for his body of paintings, sculptures and writings gathered under the term “Pago Pago” produced largely between and ^[1]

Early life

Latiff Mohidin was born in Lenggeng, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia^[2] with roots in the Minangkabau group of West Sumatra, Indonesia.^[3] He received his formal primary training at Kota Raja Malay Academy in Singapore.^[1] His talent in painting later granted him the Deutscher Akademischer Austrauschdienst (DAAD) scholarship to study at the Academy of Arts in Berlin from until Later in , the French Ministry of Culture awarded him with a scholarship to study etching in Paris at the Atelier Lacourière-Frélaut, followed by a grant from the Asian Cultural Program of The JDR 3rd Fund (later known as the Asian Cultural Council) for a residency at the Pratt Institute in New York.^[4]

Due to his education, he speaks Malay, English and German.

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Career

Latiff's passion for painting and drawing was evident from an early age. At 11, he sold his first painting to the then British Commissioner-General for Southeast Asia, Sir Malcolm MacDonald.^[2] He later came to be identified as "the magical male child with the gift in his hands" after his first exhibition at the Kota Raja Malay School in Singapore, a institution that he attended before he flew to Berlin to further his artistic education.

Upon his return from Germany in , he travelled throughout Indochina and the Malay world, establishing affinities and conversations with avant-garde artists and intellectuals of the moment. He sought to connect new art history, and its mediums such as drawing, painting and writing, to localalties beyond Europe and America This moment, which he evokes through the term “Pago Pago,” to describe the cosmopolitan yet regionally rooted liveliness with which he made art, and called "a Southeast Asian brand of modernism" has create a significant place in writings on Southeast Asian art.^[3]

His esthetic practice is often linked to his literary activities.

Abdul Latiff Mohidin or simply Latiff Mohidin born is a Malaysian modernist painter, sculptor and poet. Latiff's passion for painting and drawing was evident from an initial age. Upon his return from Germany inhe travelled throughout Indochina and the Malay world, establishing affinities and conversations with avant-garde artists and intellectuals of the time. His artistic practice is often linked to his literary activities.

He first became recognised as a poet when he published his collection of poems Sungai Mekong in , which has since been translated into multiple languages. Like his art, his poetry is a methodological wandering that resists ideological systems and structures, offering an extended interrogation of the artist's interior world.

Many of these thoughts are reflected in GARIS Latiff Mohidin dari titik de titik, a work of immense literary prowess that was first published in It grapples with the position of vernacular cosmopolitanism within the story of global modernism, which still defaults to Europe.

His literary and painterly planet is also heavily informed by the writings of Jorge Luis Borges, Chairil Anwar and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe amongst others. Breaking down disciplinary boundaries between the visual and literary, in , Latiff Mohidin published his translation of Goethe's Faust (Part 1), a figure who has fascinated him since his experience with German literature in the early s.

Abdul Latiff Mohidin: Notes and Chronology - cdn.aaa.org.hk: Abdul Latiff Mohidin or simply Latiff Mohidin (born ) is a Malaysian modernist painter, sculptor and poet. He is generally known for his body of paintings, sculptures and writings gathered under the term “Pago Pago” produced largely between and

In , he became the first Southeast Asian artist to be featured at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.^[2]

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References

• David, Catherine; Mustafa, Shabbir Hussain ().

  Latiff Mohidin: Pago Pago (–). Singapore: National Gallery Singapore. ISBN&#;.

• Sabapathy, T.K.; Redza, Piyadasa (). Modern Artists of Malaysia. Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, Ministry of Awareness Malaysia.