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Animals Kingdom Charity Art Exhibition

By SY Lim
lim@artmalaysiagroup.com

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My feelings of viewing the paintings and works exhibited recently in the Animals’ Kingdom Charity Art Exhibition was like reading Aesop's famous fables, featuring many familiar creatures both love and feared. As the stories effectively waive the human and animals relationships in such brevity, capturing my imagination and heart. This unique art exhibition and its art pieces indeed breathe a freshness of innocence and plea for mutual conversation with them. 

Presenting art catalogue to YB Dato' Seri Mohamed Nazri, Minister of Tourism and Culture Malaysia

Opening speech by Minister	Support from local and foreign artsts
Young artist Delwin presenting his art to the Minister	Artist Allen presenting his creation to Minister
Group photo of participating artists with Minister	Cultural song by group performance from Perak

Most of the art exhibitions tend to promote art pieces according to the professional level of the artist. But I was pleasantly surprised that among all the participating artists at the Animal’ Kingdom Charity Art Exhibition stand the well-known budding artist, young and silver hair artist as well as local and foreign artists. Nevertheless, this unique exhibition has provided space for all artists, together with general public in conversation with animals and creatures great and small. 

Artist Alice	Artist Aloysius Yapp
Artist Datuk Abdul Rahman Rahim	Artist Elnas Rostami
Artist Ethen Ng	Artist Fauziah Haji Yahaya
Artist Felicia Loh	Artist Grace Jin and I
Artist Jia Xing	Artist Jin Ok Sook from Korea
Artist Mohd. Yusof	Artist Simin Pezeshki
Artist Suzi Chua	Grace and Allen

Gathering of artists from Iran & Iraq

Now, if only they could talk, what would these creatures say through the paintings to you and me, I wonder.       

A boy in conversation 


In conversation with a family of water buffalos


In conversation with a horse


In conversation with a tiger

In conversation with mother orang utan and her kid

 

The Beautiful Animal
By Geoffrey Brock
   
    By the time I recalled that it is also
    terrifying, we had gone too far into
    the charmed woods to return. It was then
 
    the beautiful animal appeared in our path:
    ribs jutting, moon-fed eyes moving
    from me to you and back. If we show
 
    none of the fear, it may tire of waiting
    for the triggering flight, it may ask only
    to lie between us and sleep, fur warm
 
    on our skin, breath sweet on our necks
    as it dreams of slaughter, as we dream
    alternately of feeding and taming it
 
    and of being the first to run. The woods
    close tight around us, lying nested here
    like spoons in a drawer of knives, to see
 
    who wakes first, and from which dream.