The National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur

Located at the in a beautiful location of Lake Titiwangsa, The National Art Gallery is a home to many art peace exhibition by local artist. The art gallery is established in the 1958, by Tunku Abdul Rahman(first Prime Minister of Malaysia), it is the foundation of the Ministry of Culture, Arts & Tourism of Malaysia. Today, it carries the name as National Visual Arts Gallery.

During my visit there, i was particularly moved by one art piece that illustrated todays world. Details of the art piece is below (there is no visual assistance because i was not permitted to snap a photo)

TOWER OF SHAME
Iiham Fadly Mohd Shaimy
2010-2011
Acrylic, Charcoal, collage on paper.
137 X 90 cm
BSLN 2011.044

The Tower of Shame has illustrated todays modern society with all of its shame based on the Malaysian culture. it portrait the greed for power and money, the act of humans against social norms(gay, pregnant woman before marriage, and also homicides).