LOT 12
JALAINI ABU HASSAN
B. Selangor, 1963
Higher Series, 2023
Mixed media on paper
76 x 56 cm
Signed and dated “Jai 2023 KL” on lower right
PROVENANCE
Illustrated on page 89 of Jalaini Abu Hassan’s “Chronology- A Collection of Masterpieces from 1988 – 2024” exhibition by KLAS in end 2024
Private Collection, Kuala Lumpur
RM 5,000 – 7,000
Jai’s work has a distinctive quality and is known to revolve around bold, vibrant colours and interspersed with contemporary objects as depicted in this artwork. Jai’s creations have been exhibited in private and public art spaces around the country as well as abroad. He has won numerousawards as an artist while some of his works are in permanent collections in corporations and public art galleries like the Balai Seni Lukis Negara and PETRONAS Gallery. He returned to New York in the spring of 2011 for his first US solo exhibition in over ten years, comprising a new body ofmixed media works on canvas and paper. Jai’s exhibition gave American audiences a rare opportunity for an in-depth viewing of the work of one of Malaysia’s leading contemporary artists. The Higher series of works is both introspective and expansive, drawing the viewer into a visual meditation on ambition, faith, and transcendence. Like much of Jalaini’s oeuvre, Higher invites multiple readings, rewarding prolonged engagement with its interplay of material, memory, and metaphor.