ECLECTIC Collective @ Segaris

Written by Artfronts Staff on 21 September 2023.

It’s not difficult to accurately assume the types of artworks you will encounter in a 21-artist collective exhibition titled “Eclectic,” and Segaris Art Center @ Publika definitely delivers in its current show that runs until the 8th of October.

Selected to participatw were the following artists: Ain Rahman, Akif Azmi, Amiral Lazio, Anisa Abdullah, Daniel Alizatt, Fawwaz Sukri, Fazrin Abdul Rahman, Fuad Arif, Khabir Roslan, Khairi Shamsudin, Mohd Fairuz Paisan @ Po’oi, Najib Bamadhaj, Nazhan Fikri, Nor Tijan Firdaus, Muthalib Musa, Red Hing Yi, Syed Zamzur Akasah, Mohd Shahrudin Sabu, Suhaimi Fadzir, Tajuddin Ismail (Dato’), and Wan Rajaie.

Suhaimi Fanzir

Mixed-media assemblages, collages,and three-dimensional wall hangings featuring alternative materials take center stage in a lively, exploratory collection that flirts with the boundaries of what traditionalists once debated over the range of materials that could be used to create fine art. Fortunately that bridge was crossed long ago, and viewers become the benefactors of a broader variety of interesting and innovative art.

Among the diverse materials used are computer parts embedded in resin-solidified compositions, paintings based on sand, collages featuring found objects, image transfers, mark-making and cut-n-paste materials, and a variety of industrial materials, including concrete, wood, metal, tar, charcoal, and epoxy resin.

Tajuddin Ismail 2 Tajuddin Ismail (Dato')

Fuad Arif, one of 2 tributes to Sinead O"Connor

Of particular note were Suhaimi Fanzir’s elaborate wall assemblages and the smaller mixed media collages on canvas, a 2014 mixed-media work by Tajuddin Ismail (Dato’), Wan Rajaie’s floot trail of tarred orbs in tar and industrial waste, and Nor Tijan Firdaus’s “Climate Change is Real II”, featuring computer parts and other e-waste on wood coate with matte epoxy resin.

Also on view were examples of Fazrin Abd-Rahman’s works with aluminum strips, Fawwaz Shukri’s small sculptures in brick and concrete, Khabir Roslan’s intriguing wall hangings featuring strips of medical gauze wrap covered with compost, Paisan @ Po’oi’s fibreglass and wood assemblages, Akif Azmi’s painted fabrics and threads, Majib Ahmad Bamadhaj’s glass-framed works featuring cowhide butterfly motifs and fabric wall paper backgrounds, Daniel Aizatt’s table-top constructions of toys, wood and other materials, Fuad Arif’s graphic mixed media works of markings, symbols, and letters, including two tributes to musician Sinead O’Connor, Muthalib Musa’s sandblasts, Red Hong Yi’s large military-themed works developed in resin and soil overlaid with rocks, leaves, wood chips, twigs, and charcoal, and Mohd Shaharudin Sabu’s small sculptures in Aluminum and steel.

Khabir Roslan

Suhaimi Fanzir

Majib Ahmad Bamadhaj

Muthalib Musa

For additional information regarding this 'eclectic' exhibiton, please direct inquiries to the gallery.

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