Anuar Rashid is back... again... for now
By Ooi Kok Chuen
October 2014 PENANG PALETTE
Malaysian Art’s prodigal son, Anuar Rashid, is back. Again, big time and with a vengeance, a new passion and the same kick-ass attitude. Behold his magnum opus aptly dubbed Where myth, divinity and logic collide in a major defining exhibition, “Mihraj: A Flight Into Space”, with the mock self-deprecatory subtext, “I Am Just a Story-Teller”.“Mihraj” proves to be more than a vindication. It is a feat that has gone beyond painting, a far cry from “Phatanum”, his actual comeback in...
Ooi Kok Chuen
is an art-writer and journalist, and the author of MAHSURI: A Legend Reborn (Ooi Peeps Publishing), an adult contemporary fantasy “movel” (a novel conceived as a mock movie) spun from a local legend.
