The pandemic has impacted people all across the world, economically and socially.
The situation has inspired Particle Pte Ltd, in collaboration with Fondazione ICA Milano, to organise an art exhibition called
Fragilita, which investigate the concept of fragility in contemporary art production.
Italy’s ambassador to Malaysia, Cristiano Maggipinto, said four Italian and four Malaysian artists are involved in the ongoing online art exhibition which can be viewed here.
“Art and culture are important because they can help us to deal and to cope with the pandemic. We all feel more fragile because of the pandemic.
“In many cases, pandemic can happen and we should be ready, so we highlighted the fragility of the human condition from this point of view, ” said Maggipinto recently.
G13 Gallery s current exhibition,
Mosaic, a solo by renowned abstract artist Tajuddin Ismail, had just opened on Monday (Jan 11), the same day the new measures to curb the Covid-19 outbreak were announced.
With the gallery in Petaling Jaya having to close, this exhibition will now be converted into an online show.
In fact, the gallery plans to relook at all the exhibitions they had planned for the coming months and spend the MCO working on converting them to an online version.
“As of now, we have already started our preparations for the transition into online viewing. This includes footage of artist interviews, photoshoot of installation views as well as videography of the artworks to be exhibited. We plan to showcase the artworks online in order for fellow art lovers to be able to view and enjoy the pieces without having to physically go to our venue, ” says G13 Gallery founder Kenny Teng.