Pago-Pago, Bangkok (1)

Latiff Mohidin (1941), born in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia completed his primary education in Singapore. While in Singapore, his precocity in understanding paintings at an early age, earned him the nickname, 'Wonder Boy'. From 1960 to 1964, Latiff studied art at Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste in Berlin, Germany and did brief residencies in Paris and New York. Inspired by his exploration of Southeast Asia in 1964, Latiff has since produced a series of compelling artworks -� the result of a synthesis between his European experience and the rediscovery of his homeland. He is also a poet who has published several volumes of poetry. Pago-Pago, Bangkok (1), a production of a split between a sketch and a painting of extraordinary vitality and force, exhibits Latiff's urgent and rapid brushstrokes. The form, which consists of familiar triangles that has been inverted and combined with one another, to create a certain aspect of architecture, is akin to the unpredictable growth of plant life. The intermingling of red and green hues hints of a representation where the architectural form dances to the rhythmic growth of nature in the imaginary world of Latiff.