The Museum of Picture Book Art at the GMBB creative arts mall in Kuala Lumpur will be paying tribute to the late Malaysian artist Mohd Yusof Ismail, or better known as Yusof Gajah, this weekend.
The Yusof Gajah tribute, which will be held at GMBB's The Grey Box space, will take place this Saturday and Sunday at 11am to 5pm.
"The event will showcase his artworks - from public, private and personal collections - alongside sales of prints, T-shirts, books and other artworks by Pak Yusof's students. More importantly, this event hopes to be a gathering of all those who loved him and were touched by Pak Yusof’s endearing and inimitable art," outlines a statement about the tribute.
The Museum of Picture Book Art is collaborating with Yusof Gajah's family for the upcoming event. The artist was fondly known as "Pak Yusof" to his audience, which crossed the generational divide.
As one of the country's most celebrated artists and art mentors, Yusof Gajah's media spanned paintings, murals, installations, sketches, writing, theatre and children's picture books. He died on March 9 this year aged 68.
Throughout his colourful career as a full-time artist which began in the mid-1970s in Kuala Lumpur, Yusof Gajah, a proponent of naive style paintings and folk art, was known as a person who saw the importance of making art and creativity accessible and essential to the human experience.
"We sincerely hope that you would be able to join us and help this event #meanMore to those that mattered the most to Pak Yusof and those whom Pak Yusof mattered the most to. There will also be a donation collection in aid of the National Cancer Society of Malaysia, a charity Pak Yusof himself had supported," the Yusof Gajah tribute statement added.
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