Redza Piyadasa

Redza Piyadasa was a Malaysian artist, art critic and art historian.

Piyadasa was born in 1939 in Kuantan, the capital of Pahang, in a family of Sinhalese origin. Initially he followed a study at the Malaysia Teacher's College in Brinsford Lodge to become a teacher. Afterwards, he followed an art study at the Hornsey College of Art in Crouch End, London, on the basis of a scholarship of the Malaysian government. Here he obtained his degree in 1967. Consequently, he returned to Malaysia, where he started to work as a teacher at the School for Art and Design, which shortly before was founded as a part of the Universiti Teknologi MARA.[1]

Pivadasa dedicated his life to art, in the sense of focusing on art theory, as well as performing himself. As an artist he produced visual artwork, like paintings, installations and collages. By means of his publications in Malaysian as well as in English, he importantly filled up a vacuum of the sixties and seventies. He initiated a hardly existing debate in this time in his country on art critic and history.[1][2]

Pivadasa was interested mainly in Asiatic art which he linked with traditional art in Asia, as well as with contemporary art in the West. His critics offered an answer on the neo-nationalist, Islamic and global currents in Malaysia. Great part of his live, during two decades, he worked on collages called Malaysia Series. In 1998 he was honored with a Prince Claus Award from the Netherlands. Piyadasa died on May 7, 2007, in Selayang.[1][2]

Expositions (selection)
  • 1987: Baba family
  • 1978: A matter of time
gollark: I'm sure I can figure out some way to make python do that
gollark: OH REALLY?
gollark: I prefer Rust.
gollark: ```perl -wlne'END{print$n}eof&&$n++;/<title>([^<]+)/i&&$n--' *Contents 1 Interpretation 2 Implementations 2.1 In Perl 2.2 In shell scriptsInterpretationThe code in question (from the collection "The road to Perligata") is a lament over the coming apocalypse, an expression of the author's Weltschmerz and the futility of all human endeavors. Let us take it step by step:-wlne' The world is near its end.END{print$n} At the end the sum of all our sins and virtues will be reckoned and the judgement revealed.eof&&$n++; As the evil of mankind ends, perhaps the end itself is a positive thing./<title>([^<]+)/ We are preoccupied with fame and titlesi And insensitive to the suffering of others.&&$n-- All this is for nought, and only hastens our demise.' * For in the end, we are but stardust. ```
gollark: They'll probably say "lambdas are evil" because python hates functional programming a lot of the time.

References
  1. Khoo, Eddin (13 May 2007) biography, The Star Online
  2. Prince Claus Fund, profile
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