Image size: 18.5 x 18.5 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. ‘Pago-Pago, Bangkok (1)’, a production of a split between a sketch and a painting of extraodinary vitality and force, exhibits Latiff’s urgent and rapid brushstrokes. The form, which consists of familiar triangles that could be architecture that has been inverted and combined with one another, is akin to the unpredictable growth of plant life. The intermingling of red and green hues hints of a representation where the architecture dances to the rhythmic growth of nature in the imaginary world of Latiff.
