Image size: 18 x 13 cm
Latiff Mohidin, born in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia in 1941 completed his primary education in Singapore. While in Singapore, at an early age, Latiff’s precocity in understanding paintings earned him the nickname, ‘Wonder Boy’. From 1960-1964, Latiff studied art at Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste in Berlin, Germany and did brief residencies in Paris and New York. Inspired by his exploration of Southeast Asia in 1964, Latiff has since produced compelling series of artworks – the result of a synthesis between his European experience and the rediscovery of his homeland. He is also a poet who has published several volumes of poetry. ‘Garden in Winter, Berlin’ is among the drawings that Latiff produced in Berlin while undergoing the programme’s outdoor drawing practice. The image, painted in watercolour, of walls stacked up close to one another and arranged in inter-penetrating planes, not only underscores Latiff’s finesse of the medium, it also serves as a point of departure in his constant critical enquiry of nature, architecture and its ‘movement’.
