By Haslin b. Ismail

RASA TERASA
Group Art Exhibition
Featuring works by Haslin Ismail, Fawwaz, Muhd Sarip and Hafiz Yahaya
Sun 11 Jan to Sun 25 Jan, 11am to 7pm
Admission Free

How does the artistic impulse get translated into a work of art? How does an artist process all the sensations of his surroundings into feelings and thoughts which he then syncretises into his body of  work?  Four young Malaysian artists – Haslin Ismail, Fawwaz, Muhd Sarip and Hafiz Yahaya – recent fine art graduates of UiTM who have exhibited in various acclaimed group shows in recent years, take us from sensation to feeling to canvas and back to sensation in Rasa TeRasa.

"Bagi yang menyaksikan, sila fikirkan apa di rasa dan apa yang terasa..."

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EXHIBITION OPENING
You are cordially invited to the Exhibition Opening of RASA TERASA
Sun 11 Jan, 3pm
Refreshments provided

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Haslin Ismail, b. 1984
Originally from Muar, Johor, Haslin completed his BA(Hons) Fine Art at Universiti Teknologi MARA, Selangor, Malaysia in 2007. He has exhibited his works in various group exhibitions in Malaysia and abroad since 2000. Haslin also has won several art competitions, including the grand prize of the In-Print (2006) Competition, hosted by Balai Seni Lukis Negara, and was awarded a grant from the British Council and Scotland’s Robert Gordon University to study printmaking at Gray’s School of Art and Design. In 2008, Haslin participated in a group performance art project with other young ASEAN artists entitled Project Mending Sky, at the Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore.

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By Fawwaz

Fawwaz, b. 1984
Originally from Kuala Lumpur, Fawwaz completed his BA(Hons) Fine Art at Universiti Teknologi MARA, Selangor, Malaysia in 2007. He has been actively exhibiting his works in Malaysia since 2002, most recently at the House Of Matahati in 2008. Syafiq is also actively involved in alternative arts, including performing experimental music and poetry with SO-Sound in various galleries around KL. He has also self-published two artbooks, entitled Melonkolik (2006) and Art Unlimited (2004).

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By Muhd Sarip

Muhd Sari, b. 1981
Originally from Tawau, Sabah, Sarip completed his BA(Hons) Fine Art at Universiti Teknologi MARA, Selangor, Malaysia in 2005. He has been actively exhibiting his works in various group exhibitions in Malaysia since 2002, most recently at Pelita Hati House Of Art and TAKSU Gallery in 2008. Sarip has also won several art competitions, including winning the top prize in the United Sabah Islamic Association Islamic Art competition three times.

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By Mohamad Hafiz b. Yahaya

Hafiz Yahaya, b. 1983
Hafiz completed his BA(Hons) Fine Art at Universiti Teknologi MARA, Selangor, Malaysia in 2006. He has been actively exhibiting his works in various group exhibitions in Malaysia since 2003. Most recently, Hafiz exhibited at Pelita Hati House Of Art and TAKSU Gallery in 2008.

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Artists' Statement

Rasa TeRasa

Setiap telinga punya deria yang berbeza, setiap lidah punya rasa yang berbeza, setiap mata punya pandangan yang berbeza dan tentunya setiap pengalaman punya taraf kematangan yang berbeza. Pastinya pengalaman menjadi seorang pelukis dari awal hinggalah akhir punya rasa yang berbeza.pertembungan antara ideologi artistik dan komersial berpisah dan juga antara emosi dan akal berpecah. Persoalannya, apakah yang dirasai dan diimpikan oleh setiap pelukis? Sesungguhnya tiada siapa yang  tahu.


Rasa Terasa

Every ear sees a different sound, every tongue hears a different flavour, every eye tastes a different image. As each person experiences the world differently throughout his lifetime, so does each artist approach his art uniquely. When all taste, flavour and image have been totaled and accounted for, aesthetic and ideological differences fall away as does the gap between emotion and thought. But what is it that is felt and dreamt by each and every artist? Is there even a need for an answer, when all sensation is equally real in the journey towards the miracle of the senses?

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Seni itu indah dari sudut pandangan mata kasar atau matahati. Indah / cantik itu bersifat subjektif, namun segala pendapat mengenainya harus dirujuk kepada pendapat  masyarakat, akademik, politik, keagamaan, sosial dan yang paling penting pendapat peribadi. Keindahan yang lahir dari mata seseorang tidak akan sama dengan  keindahan yang dilihat orang lain. Pendapat peribadi lebih penting bagi seseorang pelukis dalam menghasilkan karya seninya.

Art is beautiful, whether seen through the naked eye or the eye of the soul. But beauty itself is subjective, whereby all opinion about its true nature defers to the opinions of society, academia, politics, religion and most importantly one’s own personal viewpoint. What is perceived as beautiful by one person may not be the same for another. It is this personal difference in perception that is most important for an artist while creating his works of art.

Segalanya di fikiran, dilepas bersama tenaga dalam satu ruang (ilusi) yang agak personal, dan di hias pada ruang (fizikal) yang lebih terbuka. Satu rasa yang dirasa dicurah diguris, diketuk, ditampal, dipotong, disapu, diletak dan sebagainya bagi menyampaikan niat bagi terasa kesannya kepada pelukis dan penghayat seni lukis. Perasaan ingin rasa dan perasaan terasa dibawa dari hati (qalbu)  pelukis dan disampaikan  ke otak (aqlu) lalu disalurkan satu tenaga ke seluruh pancaindera bagi merealisasikan  hajat yang pada awalnya cuma satu perasaan sahaja.

All that is in the mind, is released energetically within the personal space (illusion), and against a more open space (physical). The feeling that is felt is poured, hammered, patched, cut, spread, placed and so on, to communicate the urgency of what is felt to both artist and audience. The feelings of wanting to feel and what is felt are transferred from the soul (qalbu) of the artist to his mind (aqlu) and channeled as an energy to his entirety to manifest in reality what was once just a feeling.

Emosi (pelukis) yang sensitif terhadap sekelilingnya akan membawa pelukis kearah satu tujuan pengkaryaan yang jujur dimana pelukis dapat meresapi apa yang terlintas dan menyusunnya secara rawak sebelum menyediakan satu format yang lebih terancang dimana segala emosi, pengalaman , pembacaan dan pergerakan tenaga secara spontan dan tersusun bagi  menghasilkan karya seni lukis.

His sensitive emotions (artist) toward his environment will take the artist in an honest artistic direction where he can absorb what passes through his senses and arrange them randomly before embarking on a more structured form whereby all emotion, experience, scholarship and movements both spontaneous and deliberate are brought together to create the works of art.

Rasa TeRasa merupakan gumpalan pemikiran empat pelukis muda yang menghasilkan karya secara individu dalam beberapa tahun ini. Segala idea dan persembahan mewakili setiap pergerakan yang berlaku  disekeliling pelukis. Apa yang di Rasa dan apa yang pelukis Terasa diluahkan dalam bentuk karya seni visual bagi menimbulkan satu persoalan  mengenai sekelilingnya. Segala persoalan yang terbentuk tidak hanya memerlukan jawapan tetapi sudah cukup kiranya ia diperbahas dan dibincangkan secara sejujurnya. 

Rasa TeRasa is an amalgam of the thoughts of four young artists who have produced works individually in the past few years. All their ideas and presentations represent the events that have happened around the artists. What is felt and what the artists feel are expressed in visual form to pose an inquiry about their surroundings. The questions that arise don’t need answers but it’s enough if they generate honest debate and discussion.

Bagi yang menyaksikan, sila fikirkan apa di rasa dan apa yang terasa…

For those who are watching, we invite you to ponder how it feels and what is felt...