Details
CollectionSouth & Southeast Asian Collection
InventarnummerS1999-0011-002-0
TitelBaba's Family
HerstellerRedza Piyadasa
BeschreibungBaba Family belongs to Redza Piyadasa’s Malaysian Series which began in the early 1980s. In the series, Piyadasa makes silk screen prints from old photographic portraits of indigenous Malays and the multi-ethnic settlers of Malaysia, and re-works them with psychedelic colours and traditional fabric. In doing so, he personalises the past and surfaces issues of history, memory and identity.A found object, an old photograph of a baba's family, is silk-screen printed in triplicate in the manner of a film strip. It's very colourful image is attractive, but the real art content is the artist's concept and the mechanical process by which he produced his image. The artist provides the clues and expects the viewer to be more mentally and intellectually alert to transform what he sees into art. Piyadesa is a well known Malaysian art critic, painter and printmaker. He was trained in the U,K. and is a strong advocate of Conceptual Art.
EntstehungsortMalaysia
Datum 1987
SachgruppePainting
MaterialAcrylic on Paper Board
Format
H: 140 cm
L: 114 cm
L: 114 cm
