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the exhibition entitled
Eye Zone
at the Art
and Science Museum in Singapore earlier
this year. Other than looking forward
to the next
Art Stage
, an international
art event in 2016, he will be producing
a large scale site specific installation at
G13 Gallery for his fifth solo exhibition.
When asked about the challenges he
faces as an artist, Haslin cites the pressure
from the so called ‘art market’, which
at times can be exasperating. However,
he realises that if one strives to be an
internationally recognised visual artist,
one must work hard to the best of their
ability and stay truthful to their artistic
vision.
G13 Gallery,
GL13,Ground Floor,
Block B, Kelana Square,
Jalan SS7/26, 47301 Kelana Jaya,
Selangor, Malaysia
GPS:
3”06’22.23”N
101”35’34.00”E
Open daily:
11am–5pm (Closed on Sundays
and Public Holidays)
Email:
info@g13gallery.com
Website:
www.g13gallery.com
Facebook:
www.facebook.com/G13gallery
For more details about the
upcoming exhibitions at G13 Gallery,
please visit www.g13gallery.com
Haslin has had four
solo exhibitions, three of
them under G13 Gallery at
Kelana Jaya Square, Selan-
gor with
Mindmix
(2014)
and
Transfiguration (2013)
in
Malaysia while Book
Land was held
at
Art Stage
(2014)
at the Marina Bay
Sands, Singapore. Kenny
Teng, who is the founder
of the gallery, is ‘blown
away’ by Haslin’s fertile
imagination and interesting
experiments with different
media. He feels that artists
should be encouraged and
left alone to explore areas
that interest them the most
and looks forward excitedly
to Haslin’s next body of works.
Through he has been active during
the last seven years, he was only recently
recognised for his creative composition
employing images of the human anatomy
in fantastical approaches. He celebrates
the human anatomy for its beauty and
complexity. Lately, he has also ventured
into producing more works in three
dimensional form. He began considering
using books as his installation work
when his wife was pregnant with their
first child. It reminded of him of his own
childhood where he found pleasure in
‘damaging ‘ books through scribbling,
cutting and folding. He confessed that he
is not a book worm though he is obsessed
with book forms. The pliability and the
tactility of the materials used is a topic of
conversation that can sometimes border
on the sensual, as though describing the
human body.
A finalist of the Malaysia Emerging
Artist Award (MEAA) competition in 2009
and the grand prize winner of the 2010
Young Contemporary Award organised by
the National Visual Arts Gallery, Haslin is
currently in the midst of preparing works
for a few group exhibitions including
the
upcoming Art Expo Malaysia 2015
in
September and
Art Jakarta
in Indonesia.
Haslin also had his works on display at
The Fattory Chronicles Alice
Through the Looking- glass and
what Alice FoundThere