Exhibition To Highlight Penang-Nagoya Bilateral Visual Art

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 16 (Bernama) -- Artworks of seven artists from Penang and Nagoya will be displayed from Feb 20 to March 7 in Georgetown, Penang, for a bilateral visual art exhibition between the two cities titled “Nagoya Culture Promotion Unit”. The exhibition, organised by the Japan Foundation Kuala Lumpur (JFKL) together with Minatomachi Art Table Nagoya (MAT), SEASUNS and Joint Committee of Port Town, will be held at 29, Lebuh Melayu, in Georgetown, Penang. The artworks were the results of joint research on the theme of Nagoya by the artists under the Nagoya Culture Promotion Unit (NCPU) that have been established in the two cities. It will also be displayed concurrently in Nagoya from Feb 16 to March 13. “We have brought together Penang Island, with its history of having developed as a free trade port, and Nagoya Port, which continues to thrive on trade. Due to the pandemic that has impeded movement globally, an online collaboration project is organised to showcase the interaction between artists and cities as well as an exhibition to display the outcome,” a JFKL statement said. Curated by Hoo Fan Chon, the NCPU Penang branch’s participating artists are Forrest Wong, Tetriana Ahmed Fauzi, and Hoo himself. Meanwhile, from Nagoya, the participants are Asuka Miyata, D. D. (Tetsu Imamura and Arika Someya), Takuya Yamashita, and Yuji Kinoshita. The exhibition is open, subject to movement control order conditions with strict adherence to standard operating procedure. For more information, visit www.facebook.com/NAGOYAxPENANG and www.jfkl.org.my/events/NAGOYAxPENANG/. -- BERNAMA