Remembrance Datuk Ibrahim Hussein

KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Ibrahim Hussein, Malaysia’s world icon artist, died early yesterday morning at 3.50. He was 22 days short of his 73rd birthday on March 13.Ib, as he was affectionately known, was buried at the Bukit Kiara cemetery on Thursday. He leaves behind Sim, his wife and soul-mate of 35 years, and daughter Alia, 30.
The widely-recognised artist is perhaps better known outside Malaysia, with one international critic describing his abstract work as “futuristic and it is through a distinctive ordering of lines that he expresses differing complexities of form and dimensions.”Ib used a medium he called “‘printage”’ - a mixture of printing and collage.He was also founder of the Ibrahim Hussein Museum and Cultural Foundation in Langkawi.Ib created an extraordinary legacy of paintings over a half century revolving around his life and humanity, events and personalities.He created his own museum-in-the-rainforest, the Ibrahim Hussein Cultural Foundation Museum, in Pulau Langkawi, a rare “living” museum then by a living artist.It was launched together with the first Langkawi International Arts Festival, which he single-handledly organised, in 2000.
With the help of his wife Sim, he had also organised the Club Mediterranee Asian Arts Fest in Bali, Indonesia (1987), and in Cherating, Kuantan (1988).Ib is perhaps the most decorated among Malaysian artists - triple Datukships, World Economic Forum’s Crystal Award (1997), the Japan Foundation Cultural Award (1988), Venezuela’s Order of Andres Bello (1993), Chile’s Order of Bernardo O’Higgins (1996) and the Anugerah Tokoh Melayu Terbilang (2007).

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