Lot 102
Ahmad Zakii Anwar
b. Johor, 1955
Kecak Under A Dark Moon, 1994
signed and dated
‘AHMAD ZAKII ANWAR’ (lower right)
oil on canvas
88cm x 118cm
PROVENANCE
Private collection, Kuala Lumpur
ESTIMATE RM 45,000 – 75,000
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Kecak is a form of Balinese Hindu dance and music drama that was developed in the 1930s in Bali, Indonesia. For Ahmad Zakii Anwar dealing with Realism in the later 1990s, this 1994 work of a kecak dance under the self-explanatory “dark moon” registers a clandestine ritual by a fireplace or places as a nocturnal open event. A hazy atmostphere with off-focus figures huddled around is staged. After he graduated with Graphic Design at the Mara Institute of Technology in 1977, he went into advertising and was hugely successful. But he decided to quit to go fulltime into Art, and his mid-career survey exhibition (at Galeri Petronas) titled Disclosure in 2008 showed what a genius he is, and vindicated his decision to switch job. All his solos are well followed. His solos abroad included Presence (1999), Bones and Sinews (2011) in the United States, Kota Sunyi (Indonesia, 2007), Shadowland (Hong Kong, 2001) and Baik Art (South Korea, 2013), apart from his Singapore Tyler Print stint in 2007, etc. |
