Raja shahriman biography
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Raja Shahriman Bin Raja Aziddin, born November 17, , Kuala Kangsar, Perak.
Raja Shahriman: Killing tools, dancing warriors
Born in 1967 in Kuala Kangsar, Perak, Shahriman graduated from the University of Technology Malaysia in 1990. He initially enrolled as a painting major but in the fifth semester he shifted to sculpture.
In 1994, after three years of teaching at the Malaysian Institute of Art, he moved to his hometown to become a full-time artist and to live nearer to Nature, Religion and Culture. In his quest to improve his metalworking and metallurgical knowledge, he visited ironsmiths in the area.
The traditional method of keris making that he learned from them later plays a substantial role in galvanising the qualities of his sculptures.
Until now, Shahriman has produced at least six sculptural groups.
Raja Shahriman graduated from the Mara Institute of Technology in and taught at the Malaysian Institute of Art. InMost of them are derived from his fetishistic passion for the practical and mystical romanticism of weapons and the poetics of human motion in battle. Killing Tools (1994) signals his nascent foray into the Malaysian art scene.
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