Lot 027
Zulkifli Yusoff
b. Kedah, 1962
Our Warriors #II, 1997
mixed media on canvas
91 x 91cm
PROVENANCE
Private collection, Selangor.
ESTIMATE RM 18,000 – 32,000
PRICE REALISED RM 16,000.00
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Much has been said about the quartet of Malay warriors in the Malacca Sultanate with the exemplary loyalty of Hang Tuah. Today one will be hard put to find true warriors of their ilk what with the swirling Who’s Good and Who’s Evil debate, with Hang Tuah’s blind loyalty and Hang Jebat’s fight against injustices even and especially if committed by royalty. Where there’s a hero, there’s also a villain, but the ogre is one in the form of abuse of power, hypocrisy, corruption and debauchery.
Zulkifli won the Major Award in the Young Contemporary Artists (BMS) competition in 1988 and 1989. In 1992, he landed Malaysia’s biggest art award when he won the Grand Minister’s Prize in Salon Malaysia, apart from the 1st and 3rd Prizes in Sculpture. There was a time when he concentrated his educator’s role at the Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris in Tanjung Malim, and his educating credentials and his artist’s accomplishments won him the National Academy Award (Visual Art) in 2007. He did his Diploma in Art and Design (Fine Art) at the Mara Institute of Technology, Shah Alam (1989), and then studied at the Manchester Polytechnic in England for his Masters (1991). He was selected for the 1997 Venice Biennale under the fringe Modernities and Memories: Recent Works from the Islamic World Venice Biennale, the 1st Asia Pacific Triennial of Art in Brisbane in 1993, and the Singapore Biennale 2013. As a team, he won the 2nd Prize in the Sand Sculpture competition in 1988. |