De-funk Day Out!: Galleriiizu
It's drizzling outside. Seated around a rectangular wood finished table and surrounded by arts, designs, and crafts were the owner of galleriiizue, Izuldin, Suzanne, Halim and ourselves. The mood was very relaxed, with warm coffee served with quirky anectdotes.
Accessibly located on the ground floor of Menara UOA, Jalan Pinang adjacent to Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, the gallery has been at the forefront of showcasing local as well as foreign design talents in the city as seen at the Art4Soul's Man + God exhibition and talk, SA'L'E - Sunday Art Lelong event, and EX201 Experimental Exhibition.
The space, all 4000sq ft of it, features a centre foyour where they exhibit 3d objects like sculptures, light and furnitures from contemporary designers, the artists pillars which on the day displaying work by established local artists, a mini galleri just for students, young artists and experimental works and that gift shop that where they sell sell stuff like dolls, t-shirts, and postcards made by fimiliar local names like Art4Soul, Lucideas, and Territory.
Over Coffee
Izuldin himself speaks passionately and enthusiastically from his heart about what he had seen of design, from his travel, experience and as a person directly involved in providing the space for design in Malaysia.
"We have plenty of designers but there is lack of support from the corporate sectors, and at the end of the day because of this the designs will remain as personal consumption"
Citing Italy as a country where established names would patron smaller designers. He points out to the gallery gift shop and got off the chair and took a functional looking orange plastic casing made by a local designer to show it off proudly to us.
"You need to go to the next city, like Singapore or London if you could afford it, to see the massive potential that Malaysia has in design" he adds.
(from right) Izuldin, Suanne and Halim surrounded by arts, designs and crafts
Visit Malaysia 2007
As 2007 will be Visit Malaysia Year, it is precise that we should discuss on how it will affect, hopefully in a positive way the Malaysian design scene. Izuldin highlight that tourists would want to take home with them one-of-a-kind Malaysian memorabilia and designers should take advantage of what is projected to be RM 40 billion coming into the country.
Even our regional neighbours are ready to take advantage of this by selling souveniers of our country that are made across borders.
"Same, same, slightly different" quirks Izuldin which had all of us around the table in stitches.
Accessibly located on the ground floor of Menara UOA, Jalan Pinang adjacent to Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, the gallery has been at the forefront of showcasing local as well as foreign design talents in the city as seen at the Art4Soul's Man + God exhibition and talk, SA'L'E - Sunday Art Lelong event, and EX201 Experimental Exhibition.
The space, all 4000sq ft of it, features a centre foyour where they exhibit 3d objects like sculptures, light and furnitures from contemporary designers, the artists pillars which on the day displaying work by established local artists, a mini galleri just for students, young artists and experimental works and that gift shop that where they sell sell stuff like dolls, t-shirts, and postcards made by fimiliar local names like Art4Soul, Lucideas, and Territory.
Over Coffee
Izuldin himself speaks passionately and enthusiastically from his heart about what he had seen of design, from his travel, experience and as a person directly involved in providing the space for design in Malaysia.
"We have plenty of designers but there is lack of support from the corporate sectors, and at the end of the day because of this the designs will remain as personal consumption"
Citing Italy as a country where established names would patron smaller designers. He points out to the gallery gift shop and got off the chair and took a functional looking orange plastic casing made by a local designer to show it off proudly to us.
"You need to go to the next city, like Singapore or London if you could afford it, to see the massive potential that Malaysia has in design" he adds.
(from right) Izuldin, Suanne and Halim surrounded by arts, designs and crafts
Visit Malaysia 2007
As 2007 will be Visit Malaysia Year, it is precise that we should discuss on how it will affect, hopefully in a positive way the Malaysian design scene. Izuldin highlight that tourists would want to take home with them one-of-a-kind Malaysian memorabilia and designers should take advantage of what is projected to be RM 40 billion coming into the country.
Even our regional neighbours are ready to take advantage of this by selling souveniers of our country that are made across borders.
"Same, same, slightly different" quirks Izuldin which had all of us around the table in stitches.
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