Lot 083
FENDY ZAKRI
b. Perak, 1982
HA!, 2013
Signed and dated
‘Fendy Zakri 13’ (lower right)
Acrylic on canvas
123cm x 184cm
PROVENANCE
Private collection, Selangor.
ESTIMATE RM 4,000 - 7,000 |
What’s so ‘Ha!’ about a head of a white horse with shades? A chess piece of the Bishop (horse head) or Theodore Gericault’s famous work, Head Of A White Horse? Lady Godiva famously sat (naked) on a white horse. But if you see the date of conception of this painting, 2013, by Fendy Zakri, you would have guessed it must have something to do with that monster YouTube hit, Oppa Gangnam Style, which took the world by storm when it was released mid-2012. Fendy is probably gobsmacked that this song with the catchy tune and some cheesy / horsey dance moves has become sensational, and made the South Korean performer, Psy (pronounced ‘Sai’ with the ‘P’ silent) into an instant superstar, appearing with Madonna, Britney Spears and on the Ellen DeGeneres and MC Hammer shows.
Fendy Zakri, a self-taught artist who’s an engineer by training, won the Incentives Award in the Mekar Citra Gallery in Shah Alam in 2013 and was a resident artist at the Beranda Art Colony in Langkawi. He was given two solo exhibitions by Richard Koh Fine Art (Kuala Lumpur) namely Seeing The Unseen and Hypen Jocund in 2014 and 2016 respectively. He is a finalist in the Malaysia Emerging Artists Award in 2011. He graduated with a Diploma in Civil Engineering at the Engku Omar Polytecnic in Ipoh, in 2003. He believes that “the thought behind an artwork is more important than the skills in creating it.” |