360' WARNA

 

2ND WARNA ARTGROUP EXHIBITION-360 WARNA
LAUNCHED BY U-WEI HJ SAARI AT ARTSPACE GALLERY,44-A JLN TELAWI 5,BANGSAR BARU 59100 KL..

Five young artists formed WARNA.They are Faizal Suhif,Azli Wahid,Ali Azraie Bebit,Halim Hassan and Razlan Adnan.The group started when they were students at the Universiti Teknologi Mara since 2006.Represented by four major disciplines in art;drawing,painting sculpture and printmaking.

Members in WARNA own their style and specialization to project artwork inspired by nature.Each and everyone support each other's work to suit and complement the concept of their work.

To enlighten their second exhibition,WARNA invited three other artist:Jamil Zakaria,Sukor Romat and Azharuddin Mappon.With the move from WARNA, it hopes that it would forward the group further in the Malaysian Art.

360' WARNA consists of all discipline of arts.It is a collaboration of each painting,drawing,print and sculpture formed by five young artists.They have been involved in many group exhibitions in the country as well as overseas.Currently active in promoting their group in the country,some of the members have already achieved their solo exhibitions.WARNA members are Faizal Suhif,Azli Wahid,Ali Azraie Bebit,Halim Hassan and Razlan Adnan.

As previous WARNA exhinition(WARNA:SMASH),they also invite other artists in the exhibition.360' WARNA,introduces their three artist friends;Jamil Zakaria,Sukor Romat and Azharuddin Mappon.

A creative printmaker,Faizal Suhif choose found object to use as block or mould to produce his work.Faizal continues the fish images and landscapes as references to his works.A brave attempt in his work and interesting combination of 'block' results an arrangement that birthed Tukang Cuci The technique applied is 'wood cut'.

Azli Wahid a sculptor,made sculpture using shoes as his subject matter.The hard stone is carved and manipulated as if it was soft and curvy to represent the character of a canvas shoes.Meanwhile,Ali Azraie Bebit continues to play around with his toys.He sticks to use metal combined with digital and technology tools such as camera,TV,radio and lighting.Razlan Adnan too,seems refuse to out grow his childhood memories.He continues working with his idols the Casper and Doraemon.He hopes that audience is able to share his excitement and joy with the new 'toys'.

Unlike other members,Halim Hassan moved from his ant series.In previous work,his used of lines were organic brush strokes.In the new paintings he uses energetic bright colours like red and dynamic geometric shapes.

Using the character of lines as his main subject,Jamil Zakaria successfully experiments his wire sculpture.Jamil uses wire to shape and form his sculpture the same as using lines in drawing.
Sukor Romat tries to explore the mystery of the universe in his abstract painting.Using arcylic on canvas he wanders on the canvas to produce magnificent colours.In 'The Line and Shape',Azharuddin Mappon experiments lines and colours to create space on his canvas.The harmonious colour of 'Kain Pelekat,a cotton checked cloth inspired him.

WARNA is definitely an active group in exhibiting their arts.They are creative,always projecting new ideas in their work and never fail to improve.They work hard until they satisfied with the end work.Although they are new in the artscene their artworks have already steal the eyes of art lovers and collecters in the country.In general,360' WARNA potrays mature use of material,idea,composition and colour in their works.
-by Suzlee Ibrahim