Lot 060
LATIF MAULAN
b. Pahang, 1974
WORLD WITHOUT LIMITS, 2016
Signed and dated 'Latif Maulan 2016' (lower right)
Oil on canvas
92cm x 92cm
PROVENANCE
Private collection, Kelantan.
ESTIMATE RM 4,000 - 6,000
PRICE REALISED RM 3,920
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The world of the Internet is truly without limits, with its information overload and world-wide-web access to anything under the sun, or sea. Here, a young-looking woman in white T-shirt and jeans seems lost in the cyber dreamworld, where various icons and apps pop up and Google-ing, and several Windows panels reveal on-going processes such as Download, Transferring, Progress. It is a world where all other worlds meet.
Self-taught Latif Maulan’s art career reads like a fairy-tale. Somewhat a drifter having worked as a dishwasher, waiter, advertising designer, shopping-complex display artist, he was given a resident’s artist stint in Kuala Lumpur, and a fulltime artist in 1992. He decided to venture abroad. To the Big Apple where he sold two large works in the Soloat Collector’s Party at Excel Gallery, New York, two weeks in 2000), Australia (2001), a year in East Sussex in Britain as a graphic designer (2002), and six months in Plymouth (2013), where he showed at the Barbican Gallery there. First solo, Parallel Universe, at the Art Case Galleries, Kuala Lumpur, 2006. In 2006, he had already moved into Photo-Realism figuratives from his Nature and still-life themes. A finalist in the 2009 MEAA competition, he won big in the Redbull ehwaubulan showcase in 2016. |