LOT 13
ABDUL MULTHALIB MUSA
B. Penang, 1976
Wings, 2004
Stainless steel
122 x 106 cm
Private Collection, Kuala Lumpur
RM 6,000 – 12,000
Abdul Multhalib Musa has sealed a reputation in the pantheon of Malaysian art as a sculptor of the leading rank. The artist’s oeuvre is synonymous with fluid design and a keen understanding of conceptual and contemporary sensibilities. His sculptures derive, uncluttered, from a key minimalist motif and transcend cultural and linguistic divides with his “international abstraction”. Multhalib’s preferred medium is metal, specifically steel. The utilitarian alloy is transformed into opuses of high art that are both organic and evocative of movement. They are dynamic and allow the eye to follow choreographed pathways of curvatures and forms, rather than the stillness that is usually associated with sculpture. Actual movement is sometimes applied, for instance in hanging-sculptures, such as Steel (year), where light filters through the slits between each circular piece.