LOT 14
JALAINI ABU HASSAN
B. Selangor, 1963
Higher Series, 2023
Mixed media on paper
76 x 56 cm
Private Collection, Kuala Lumpur
Signed and dated “Jai 2023 KL” on lower right
RM 5,000 – 7,000
Jai’s work has a distinctive quality and is known to evolve around bold, vibrant colours and interspersed with contemporary objects as depicted in this art work. Jai’s creations have been exhibited in private and public art spaces around the country as well as abroad. He has won numerous awards 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 of mixed 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.