Artists advised to pick 'more appropriate' spots for rulers’ portraits
Kota Anggerik assemblyperson Najwan Halimi is advising artists to be more sensitive and to select more “appropriate” locations for portraits on Malay rulers.
He further offered his services to help muralists secure better locations for their creative outputs...
Kota Anggerik assemblyperson Najwan Halimi is advising artists to be more sensitive and to select more “appropriate” locations for portraits on Malay rulers.
He further offered his services to help muralists secure better locations for their creative outputs.
This followed the recent defacing of a mural of Yang di-Pertuan Agong Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah and other leaders in Shah Alam with profanity.
In condemning the vandalism, the PKR elected representative said such portraits would be better placed at museums, galleries, or government offices where they can be protected.
“I ask that each of us, including artists, to generally be more sensitive in placing their artwork in more appropriate places.
“In my view, portraits of Malay rulers would be better and more appropriately placed in secured and preserved locations such as in galleries, museums, Parliament (building), or government offices...so each visual would not be so easily defaced and ruined,” Najwan said in a statement today.
As the royal institutions surpass that of politicians or bodies, he further said all parties should take care not to place portraits of Malay rulers on the same level as the likeness of other political leaders.
“This would prevent inviting perverted political interpretations as Malay rulers and the royal institution are on a higher position above any political parties and figures,” he said.
It was recently reported that several popular large murals at Section U12 Shah Alam depicting the likeness of Sultan Abdullah and other national leaders, including Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin, Defence Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Religious Affairs) Zulkifli Mohamad Al-Bakri, Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, and PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang had to be painted over with white paint after being defaced with profanities.
Police are investigating the crime and are looking for two suspects who were captured by a nearby closed-circuit television (CCTV) camera.
The paintings were the works of artist Muhammad Suhaimi Ali, 27, Abdul Hadi Ramli, 27, and Muhamad Firdaus Nordin, 26.
Since its completion earlier this month, the artworks had gone viral and had been visited by Noor Hisham, as well as by Sultan Abdullah and the royal family.
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