RAIF released award winner commemorative booklet 29 Jan 2021 / 07:23 H. Tan Sri Dr Zeti Akhtar Aziz
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 28: The Royal Award of Islamic Finance (RAIF) has released the RAIF Award Winner Commemorative Booklet in conjunction with its 10th year anniversary celebration.
The release of the commemorative booklet is aimed at celebrating the great achievements of the award winners, including Tan Sri Dr Zeti Akhtar Aziz, who served as Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) governor from 2000 to 2016.
In a statement today, BNM and Securities Commission Malaysia said the booklet showcased the winners’ works and accomplishments, as well as capture how each of these carefully-selected recipients, through their efforts, had brought significant and sustained benefits to the global Islamic finance industry.
Now Open: William Monk at Pace Gallery in Hong Kong
Installation view.
HONG KONG
.- William Monks latest series of paintings titled Point Datum plot a course across some vast and unknowable fictive landscape. What Monk eloquently describes as a bounded arrangement, are a set of parameters for connection; a series of fixed points made physical through applied paint. A series of determinants within a range of painterly options, from scale and tone to the meeting of colors that produce a line and a boundary. A datum point,Monks inversion for the title suggests a geographyrefers to origin and destination, or rather in order to define a course or path one needs two points. For the artist this recognizes not only the fictive space of the image but the space between images, between paintings and keenly between us the viewer and painting. As he explains The imagined painterly space is both abstract and figurative, and the literal space is equally so. Both are physical a