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Hamidi’s Forest Bathing (Chinese ink and acrylic on canvas, 2020), which is one of the works featured in the Visual Poetry Project. Photo: Wei-Ling Gallery A new initiative by Wei-Ling Galleries, a collaborative programme entitled “The Visual Poetry Project”, aims to bring the visual art scene and literature community together, by highlighting the links between these two mediums of creative expression. In this series, the gallery hopes that poets and writers will be inspired to respond to artworks through written word. The subject matter revolves around 20 paintings from abstract artist Hamidi Hadi s solo exhibition Saring II: Sublimity, currently on view at Wei-Ling Contemporary. ....
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. ....