Lot 096
Zulkifli Yusoff
b. Kedah, 1962
Reformasi Series, c. 1990s
signed (lower left)
mixed media on canvas
149 x 118cm
PROVENANCE
Private collection, Selangor
ESTIMATE RM 25,000 – 40,000
PRICE REALISED RM 28,000.00 |
Zulkifli Yusoff explores social dichotomies through the creation of highly imaginative figures. The character on the left resembles his amalgam of chess figurines and totemic sculptures. With protruding eyes and a broom head, the figure on the right is rendered with gestural lines. These are caricatures reminiscent of Zulkifli Yusoff’s Power Series in the 1990s and end-1990s, Reformasi Series.
Zulkifli won the topmost Grand Minister’s Prize in the Salon Malaysia in 1992, apart from the 1st and 3rd Prizes in Sculpture. He won the Major Award in the Bakat Muda Sezaman in 1988 and jointly in 1989. He had taken part in the Venice Biennale twice, in 1997 under the Modernities And Memories: Recent Works From The Islamic World, and then again in 2019. He had taught at the Universiti ITM and Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris in Tanjung Malim, which won him the National Academy Award (Visual Art) in 2007. His credentials were the Masters at Manchester Polytechnic in England (1991) and Diploma at the Mara Institute of Technology (1989). He was selected for the 1st Asia-Pacific Triennial of Art in Brisbane in 1993, the Seychelles Biennale 1992, and Singapore Biennale 2013, etc. |