Leong and Ahmad Farid walking through the Museum of Contemporary Art in Kuantan.
PAHANG is known for its beautiful scenery and this is what Tengku Datuk Putri Marina Tengku Ibrahim has captured in her Pahang in Nature exhibition.
Up to 35 pieces of Tengku Putri Marina’s work form the mainstay of the exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Art (Moca) in Kuantan, which took the artist two-and-a-half years to conceptualise and complete.
“Even though I come from Pahang myself and was brought up in Pekan, I was very excited to be doing this exhibition because I got to observe what I have left for so many years.
“To be able to work in Pahang again and see all the places I remembered as a child was nice,” she said when met at an event to announce Pahang State Museum Corporation’s official media partnership with Star Media Group Bhd (SMG).
Among the places featured in Tengku Putri Marina’s paintings are Cameron Highlands, Tasik Chini, Tasik Bera, Sungai Lembing, Teluk Cempedak and Balok.
“After painting these places, I am truly convinced how beautiful Pahang is and we should sell this beauty through art,” she said of her exhibition that will go on until Jan 31 next year.
Tengku Putri Marina has captured nature in her splendour.
Other than Pahang in Nature, the museum also features works created or curated by other individuals such as Jimmy Khalil, Marni Zainodin, loQue, Dr Larry Francis Hilarian and Norhaiza Noordin.
Jimmy, whose real name is Muhammad Nur Hazimi Mohamed Khalil, said he had taken a year to create 47 pencil drawings of musical instruments.
“Each drawing took me at least 10 hours to complete. I was really interested in the project because I like music.
“I play the piano and guitar, so drawing these instruments was a happy experience.”
loQue, real name Khairil Ridzwan Annuar, amassed a collection of vintage and antique musical instruments featured at the museum.
The musician, better known as founding member of the band Butterfingers, said among the display pieces were Western orchestral instruments such as cello and double bass, as well as those representing the sounds of the Malay Archipelago, like the rebab.
Moca is the first contemporary art museum to be established in Malaysia, with the goal of spreading awareness that appreciating art is not only for the elite.
Pahang State Museum Corporation director Datuk Ahmad Farid Abd Jalal said Moca was not only for Pahang talents to showcase their work but for Malaysians as a whole.
He said it was a platform for contemporary artists to exhibit their work in a comfortable space with access to a large audience.
“This building housed different museums in the past. In 2000, it was Muzium Tokoh and in 2010, it was Muzium Seni.
“We are trying a new approach as we think a contemporary art museum is suitable in representing the old and the new.”
Ahmad Farid also presented partnership documents to SMG client brand marketing general manager Simone Liong.
Present at the event was state Unity, Tourism and Culture committee chairman Leong Yu Man.
