MUSADDIQ MOHAMAD KHALIL

  Figure 1: A Poster of "Kem Rebung Seni 2025" 27 July 2025 - Marks the opening date of this innovative Art Camp given the name "Kem Rebung Seni (2025)", taking place at Tukang Arca Art Space (TuAS), an all rounded Art Space managed by Dr. Rosli Zakaria, an Academic-Artist base in Melaka.  This Art Camp is a collaborative team project between Tukang Arca Art Space (TuAS), with the support of the National Art Gallery (NAG), Melaka State, District Education Office (PPD) Masjid Tanah, with four (4) secondary schools around Masjid Tanah, focusing entirely on innovating formal art education. The Art Camp highlights aspects on; Art Dialogue & Discussion, Art Talk, Eco Sculpture, as well as Eco Painting. Its objective is to focus on creative and innovative aspects among the chosen candidates from the art camp, who are secondary school students taking art subjects as a part of their school curriculum. This interesting camp also addresses the theme of "Adding Self V...

  Figure 1: "Alegori I: Hati Nyamuk", and "Alegori V: Penamat Angan" at BNM Art Gallery In today’s society 4.0, where we discover ourselves bolstered by the technological advancement of the Internet of Things (IoT), the abbreviation (A.I) for Allegorical Intelligence is undeniably common to be mistaken with ‘A.i’ of Artificial Intelligence. While the latter is the cornerstone for today’s technological era, I find Allegorical Intelligence as simultaneously, as well as substitutable a key-source for today’s contemporary art reference. Representatively, as embodied in the work entitled ‘Alegori 1: Hati Nyamuk (2004)’ by Malaysian celebrated female sculptor Sharmiza Abu Hassan. The work can be translated as “Allegory 1: Mosquito Heart (2004)”. This particular work is viewed as one of the artist’s prominent masterpieces, which encapsulates the spirit of the German term “Gesamtkunstwerk” (total work of art). The term describes works of art which integrates multiple artist...

24 April 2025 - Marks the awaited moment for this current art exhibition "SENTUH" happening at Gallery Art Studio (GAS) Fine Art Department, UiTM Melaka. Interestingly this exhibition showcased the milestone works from 16 selected worked of art, from the department's selected collection, where most of these works are done by final year Fine Arts undergraduates from UiTM Melaka.  The Gallery Manager Mr Hisammudin Ahmad, elaborates that "SENTUH" is a Malay word translated as 'Touch', while at the same time each letters representing the acronym 'Seni, Ekspresi, Nature, Tradisi, Unik, Harmoni', literally translated as Art, Expression, Nature, Tradition, Unique, and Harmony. He further informs that such art exhibition highlights the aspects of feelings, emotions, and expressions in a work of art. On one perspective, this whole art exhibition highlights the ethos of the drawing discipline, through the elements and principles incorporated in each and ev...

  Figure 1: Highlights on the components of WARNALOKA 22 February 2025- Marks the most awaited moment for the inauguration of WARNALOKA public art project in the town of Alor Gajah. WARNALOKA is a collaborative public art project by Julies Sdn. Bhd. as industry stakeholder, Majlis Perbandaran Alor Gajah (MPAG) as local municipal council, and Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Alor Gajah, Melaka as expert moderators representing the local academic institution. "The cornerstone of this beneficial public art project is based on the Sustainable Public Art Framework Guideline (SPAFG) developed by Research Interest Group (RIG), Public Art Creative Aesthetic Quality (PACAQ), here based in UiTM Melaka", explained Dr Sharmiza Abu Hassan, as PACAQ principle investigator and head of this WARNALOKA public art project. The synergy between all the parties involved has brought an inclusive approach towards managing a public art project from the people, and for the people of the town of Alor G...

  Figure 1; A Time to Remember #31 (2020) by Mohamad Khalil Amran A TIME TO REMEMBER 2020 is a series that synthesises the whole career and experience of the artist as an art academician in a rather intimidate mixed medium painting on paper. The choice of pure abstraction and spontaneous approaches celebrate the intuitive power of expressing the feelings of joy, sorrow, and melancholy through the articulation of colours, shapes, forms, and textures. I consider my work as state of mind and source for visual enjoyment - ARTIST STATEMENT by Mohamad Khalil Amran ‘A Time to Remember 31 (2020)’ is one of the final abstract work series by Mohamad Khalil Amran before his retirement in 2021. This artistic Oeuvre happened to encrypt some 35 years of the artists Academic-Artistic journey. An expression which manifest the confrontations, as well as negotiations, between Art and Life. Time and Space paved a crucial role upon articulating the Body-of-Work (BOW) in this compelling art series. Tim...