LOT 12
YUSOF GHANI
B. Johor, 1950
Siri Topeng, 1995
Mixed media on paper
39 x 27 cm
Private Collection, Sweden
Signed and dated on lower right. Titled on lower left
RM 2,200 – 4,000
Inspired by the masks of Kenyah and Kayan from his trip to Sarawak, the cultural motifs played a major part in Yusof Ghani’s Siri Topeng. It merely is an expression of faces, combining oil on canvas in controlled structures, intensified by outlines which shows the artist’s effort in exploring new forms and visual approaches that are to the point, solid, structured and meaningful. The figure, seen as a formative generator and embodiment of movement is radically altered by Yusof Ghani. He dismantles and transforms them into planes of colour and curving lines. They are almost forceful, and at times, even awkward.