Lot 100
SUHAIDI RAZI
b. Sarawak, 1977
IRON HORSE 1, 2015
Metal
72cm x 18cm x 47cm
PROVENANCE
Private collection, Kelantan.
ESTIMATE RM 6,000 - 9,000
PRICE REALISED RM 6,720 |
Suhaidi Razi, whose home-studio is his mother’s 3-acre farm homestead in Kelantan, has a special fascination for horses, like Marino Marini (1901-1980). In Henry Butcher’s Nov 6, 2016 auction, his horse sculpture sold for RM9,520, some three times over its low estimate! He had also constructed a large installation of a metal horse carriage which was shown in his Imagine The Imagination exhibition, organised by NN Gallery, at the White Box Publika, Kuala Lumpur, in 2013. This iron horse sculpture was shown in the Paradox exhibition at Galeri Prima, Kuala Lumpur, in March 2017.
Suhaidi is a champion of art awards. Apart from the Major Prize in the Nokia Art Awards in 2002, he also had Grand/Major Prizes in the Pesta Anggerik, Shah Alam (Life Drawing, 2004); Traditional Malay House (Malacca, 2008); Historical Painting in Pahang (2002), Malacca (2005), Johor (2004, 2008) and Terengganu (2009); Terengganu Nature (2006) and Craft Design (2008). He has also won more than a dozen Minor Awards in various competitions. He obtained his MFA from the Universiti ITM in 2003-2005, and BFA in 1995-1999. He has come a long way since his first solo, Rainforest, held at the Batang Ai Longhouse resort in Sarawak in 1997. |
