Malo
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MALO (Hammayu Rashid), conceptual artist and painter born 1974 in Jammu Kashmir, living in Norway.
Nine months old (1975) he traveled together with his whole family the Old Silkroad in an old Volkswagen Van from Lahore to Oslo, Norway. The family settled in a part of Oslo where many of the first wave of Pakistani immigrants lived.
After a childhood of much turbulence and several changes, and three years of studying Graphic Design, Malo applied and was admitted to the Royal Art Academy in Oslo. He was the first student with a Pakistani background.
Confronted with a completely new environment Malo soon initiated a new art-project that would harvest much controversiality in public space. One day he contacted his professor and wanted to present his new conceptual art project. Malo showed off some Edvard Munch masks in plaster and explained that the ashes from the burnt paintings Madonna and Scream had been cast into the new Munch masks. These paintings had been stolen from the Munch Museum in Oslo a few weeks before.
The head of the Art Academy, Ståle Stenslie, got to know about this project and connected the young art-student with two journalists in the newspaper Dagens Næringsliv, and just in a few days they wrote:
"One of the last days in September, art academy student Hammayu Rashid (30) went to one of the staff and told a disturbing story. He said he was afraid that he would soon have the whole art world against him and that he could be killed in the worst case. The stolen Munch paintings Scream and Madonna were burned to ashes, he said, and he was the one who got the ashes, adding that he would use the sad remains of two of the world's greatest icons to create a new work of art." (Dagens Næringsliv, Eskil Engdahl, Åge Winge, 29/30 October 2005).
Hell broke loose. On National Morning TV, a prominent art critic smashed one of Malo's Munch masks with a bat, at the same time as the Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts regarded the whole thing only as a successful PR stunt.
References[edit]
Malo Special Issue. Folk er Folk, 2019. (ISSN 2535-439)
"- Kunstneren bør straffes", Tonje Aursland, NRK, 02/11/2005 (https://www.nrk.no/kultur/--kunstneren-bor-straffes-1.540838)
"Et PR-stunt, mener politiet", Annette Orre, Arve Henriksen, Erik Bjørnskau, Aftenposten, 011120005. (https://www.aftenposten.no/kultur/i/76PA3/et-pr-stunt-mener-politiet)
Dagens Næringsliv, Eskil Engdahl, Åge Winge, 29/30 October 2005.
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