Image size: 27.5 x 22.5 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. Latiff started to use landscape as a subject and composition in the 1950s. The Landscape series can be seen as Latiff’s tendency of translating studies of nature towards abstraction. ‘Landscape (4)’ can be traced to the Guilin series where the mountainous forms were altered and mobilized. Here, the forms and its movements are left incomplete.If seen in another light, the image could represent the disintegration of the forms.
