About Yangon: MKM’s concepts on the City

A young artist MKM’s first art solo show titled as ‘About Yangon’ to reflect his urbanized conceptualism was hosted at Loka Nat Art gallery between 4^th and 9^th of March, 2013. The paintings were as huge as 60X90 inches each. The significant creation was the fact that each painting was drawn on the merger of three small pieces of canvas with the vertical lines rather than using a single canvas to produce more excitable dimensions of Yangon city’s landscapes.

Rakhine national MKM is from Sittwe but studied art at National University of Art and Culture in 2004. He started participating in art exhibitions with other fellow artists since 2003. His paintings have been showing regularly at the Orient Art Gallery since 2007. He is also a member of Loka Nat gallery.

A young artist MKM’s first art solo show titled as ‘About Yangon’ to reflect his urbanized conceptualism was hosted at Loka Nat Art gallery between 4^th and 9^th of March, 2013. The paintings were as huge as 60X90 inches each. The significant creation was the fact that each painting was drawn on the merger of three small pieces of canvas with the vertical lines rather than using a single canvas to produce more excitable dimensions of Yangon city’s landscapes.

Rakhine national MKM is from Sittwe but studied art at National University of Art and Culture in 2004. He started participating in art exhibitions with other fellow artists since 2003. His paintings have been showing regularly at the Orient Art Gallery since 2007. He is also a member of Loka Nat gallery.

‘The different concepts are perceived rather deeply by creating with the different approaches and I like this vast contrast and dynamic. I become attached to create freely and carelessly. I built this city on the canvas by the combination of nature and artificial, fresh and old, light and dark, silence and noise, smoothness and roughness, assembling and scattering, correlativity and disengagement, seriousness and triviality. The outcome is Yangon and you are also no stranger to it. It is also truthfulness for me’, the artist claimed.

Ko Phone

Translated by Ko Phyo