abdulaqim: arts

Ibrahim, yang dilahirkan di Yan, Kedah pada 13 Mac 1936, telah banyak mengharumkan nama negara menerusi hasil karyanya di samping banyak melakar sejarah pencapaian peribadinya.

Beliau pernah membuat pemeran solo di galeri lukisan ternama dunia seperti di London, New York, Copenhagen, Davos; Tokyo, Osaka dan Santiago.

Ibrahim juga banyak menerima anugerah antarabangsa termasuk Byam Shaw Award of Merit, London, Griffin Prize, London, John D.Rockefeller III Fund Fellowship, Japan Foundation Cultural Award serta Order of Andres Bello, Venezuela.

Beliau menubuhkan Muzium dan Yayasan Seni Ibrahim Hussein di Langkawi pada 1997 dengan tujuan mengembangkan seni rupa di tanah air dan antarabangsa.

Ia merupakan muzium dan yayasan seni yang unik dan yang pertama seumpamanya di dunia serta menjadi tempat rujukan kepada seniman, pencinta seni serta pelajar dari seluruh dunia.

My Father and astronaut

'May 13th'

Cambodia 1998

' My life is made of points, textures, colours, shapes, darkness and light, mass, weight, planes, volumes, sounds, smells, colours and warmth. ' - IB: A Life

Ale-ale 1996

al-Fatihah kepada allahyarham Ibrahim Hussein..

mudah-mudahan dia tergolong dalam golongan org2 yg beriman dan bertakwa kepada-Nya insyallah..ameen

YUSOF GHANI
One of Malaysia’s most illustrious fine artist

Yusof Ghani is perhaps one of the most illustrated and celebrated Malaysian fine artist around. His artwork is very much demanded by collectors and galleries and his exhibitions are often frequented by renowned people and figures, colleagues in the art scene as well as appreciators. The artist was born in 1950 in Johor where he grew up and then continued his studies in the United States where he got his Bachelor in Fine Art majoring in Graphic Art in Virginia’s George Mason University. He then continued his Master of Fine Art in Washington DC at the Catholic University of America.

Yusof’s work is very much renowned in Malaysia and the surrounding regions where he is also a lecturer and Associate Professor of the Fine Art Department of Universiti Teknologi Mara in Shah Alam, where he began his teaching career. Throughout his art career, his work that encircles around human figures and landscapes and still life, he has had numerous significant series namely Tari, Topeng, Wayang, Hijau,, Segerak and most recently, Biring. His body of work is known to be in abstract expressionism where his techniques in brush strokes and such are considered to be one of the best around, unmatchable by any standards.