Lot 038
AHMAD SHUKRI MOHAMED
b. Kelantan, 1969
INSECTS WALLPAPER, 2009
Signed and dated ‘ahmad shukri 2009’ (lower right)
Mixed media on canvas
122cm x 122cm
PROVENANCE
Private collection, Selangor.
ESTIMATE RM 17,000 - 25,000
PRICE REALISED RM 18,700 |
This mixed media on canvas illustrates a curious subject matter, where a curtain of the rainforest is adorned with an ‘insectopia’ of flies and bugs displayed in a symmetrical grid like composition as though collected, chloroformed and mounted on a board.
Alternating between the background and fore, we see a cluster of fauna encircled within earthy tones while a construction of colourful unnatural blocks interrupts our perception of an organic world. Layering subtle references to urbanisation, the artist brings our attention to how every bee, every bug, every insect is a vital component in the natural world orders, highlighting man’s interference over nature and its precedence. Shukri intends to stress on the impatience over the actions that mankind has been incurring to Mother Nature.
Graduated from UiTM (Universiti Teknologi MARA), Ahmad Shukri Mohamed won numerous awards from the prestigious Philip Morris Asean Art Awards and was artist in residence at Rimbun Dahan, Selangor from 2002 to 2003. His works were exhibited at DCA Fine Art, Los Angeles, USA at the MATAHATI KE MATADUNIA – Malaysian contemporary Art to the World exhibition in 2009. He recently held his solo at Pace Gallery, Selangor in February 2012. A member of MATAHATI collective, his work has been collected by private collectors and public institutions; among them are Bank Negara Malaysia, Singapore Art Museum and Fukuoka Art Museum.
REFERENCE
MATAHATI - For Your Pleasure, Galeri Petronas, Kuala Lumpur, 2006.
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