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ILHAM is a public art gallery in the heart of Kuala Lumpur committed to supporting the development, understanding and enjoyment of Malaysian modern and contemporary art within a regional and global context.
Through its exhibitions and public programmes, they aim to appeal to a diverse audience, such is Malaysia itself. In seek of bringing people into closer contact with the art, the artists and the ideas they come along with.
Ai Weiwei’s Installation – Divina Proportione (2015)
Chinese artist, activist, poet, architect – Ai Wei Wei exhibits his first permanent sculptural work in South East Asia in the front lawn of ILHAM Tower.
Ai claims to have first encountered the shape in the form of a toy that his cats played with, designed in the image of the spherical object.Based on geometry and mathematical precision, Ai Weiwei’s Divina Proportione is an exultation of Classical ideals of proportion and harmony.
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Pinaree Sanpitak’s Installation – Breast Stupa Topiary (2013)
Southeast Asia’s beloved and most respected Thai artist Pinaree Sanpitak embraces her female form by creating eight freestanding objects which are designed to support and shape the growth of plants.
In her early anatomical painting and charcoal drawing days, as nursing her son she became conscious of how the breast upheld life itself, and in her later practice, Sanpitak has looked beyond the mother and child connection to the breast as a metaphor for womanhood and self.
LEVELS 3 & 5, ILHAM TOWER
NO 8, JALAN BINJAI
50450 KUALA LUMPUR
Located opposite Troika and the Intercontinental Hotel and a 5 minute walk from the PETRONAS Twin Towers and SURIA KLCC.
