LOT 5
YUSOF GHANI, DATUK
B. Johor, 1950
Siri Segerak, 2012
Mixed media on paper
36 x 52 cm
Signed and dated “Yusof Ghani ‘12” on lower right
PROVENANCE
Illustrated in the “Prime Icons Exhibition of Two Important Malaysian Contemporary Artists” catalogue hosted by KLAS in July 2024
Private Collection, Kuala Lumpur
RM 5,000 – 12,000
Yusof Ghani is a Malaysian Asian Modern & Contemporary painter who was born in 1950. In this work, the figures, seen as a formative generator and embodiment of movement is radically altered by Yusof Ghani. He dismantles and transforms them into monochrome and curving lines. They are almost forceful, and at times, even awkward. Graphic components consisting of straight and curving lines as well as cross-hatching clusters, are dominant and profuse. The juxtaposition of this piece is as so, as if all the movements involved in the piece are converging towards a meeting point, even while they maintain their own distinct space and characteristics. It is the bridging of realism and abstraction. It is perhaps the absence of colours that gives this painting that polished, fluid flair.