LOT 17
ALI NURAZMAL YUSOFF
B. Penang, 1978
Internal Affair, 2012
Oil on canvas
168 x 168 cm
Private Collection, Kuala Lumpur
Signed and dated on verso
RM 18,000 – 35,000
Nurazmal Yusoff’s decade-long journey towards being a full-time artist has travelled a hard road of dedicated work. Self-produced documents show the artist’s budding flair as a teen and blossomed with his experimentation and exploration of painting’s various genres, including expressionism and conceptualism. Like another artist in this collection, Khairina Khairuddin, Ali – as he is also referred to – is part of a group of six artists called Dikalajingga that shared a common studio space (of the same name) post-graduation. They bonded early on in university and had similar interests, such as music and figurative works. This early passion has carried throughout Ali’s practice and is most notable in his works from 2008 that see the figure perfected through a delivery of commendable realism.