Lot 66
AHMAD ZAKII ANWAR
b. Johor, 1955
ACTOR ONE, 2005
Signed 'Ahmad Zakii Anwar' lower right
Monoprint with etching and aquatint
on handmade TGL paper, edition 2 of 5
Paper: 46.5cm x 35cm
Print: 19cm x 18cm
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Kuala Lumpur
EXHIBITED
Primordial Dream, Singapore Tyler Print Institute,
Singapore, 2005.
LITERATURE
Disclosure, Galeri Petronas, Kuala Lumpur, 2008,
illustrated on page 244.
ESTIMATE RM 1,500 - 2,500
PRICE REALISED RM 3,520
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Part of Zakii’s art-residency body of work at Singapore Tyler Print Institute, this work was from his sketches of Mak Yong performers done deep in the jungles in Kelantan before his residency. It captures the dancers as “ordinary Joes” before their transformations into godly dance characters.
This was his first piece done in Singapore and shows the performer full-faced with bushy sickle eyebrows, a large nose and reasonably high forehead with jutting ears.
From a successful advertising background, Ahmad Zakii Anwar switched fulltime to fine art in the early 1990s and has become a master of Urban Realism. He graduated in Graphic Design at the Mara Institute of Technology in 1977. Known as being exciting, engaging and eloquent, he made a great impact with the Smokers series in his first solo in 1997. Zakii came to attention for his virtuosity and command of a spectrum of media from charcoals to oils, building a reputation for stunning photo realist still-life paintings and expressive portraits. His career milestones include when he was selected for the coveted Singapore Tyler Institute project in 2007 as well as his mid-career survey exhibition titled Disclosure at Galeri Petronas, Kuala Lumpur, in 2008. In recent years, he has had a number of notable exhibitions overseas such as Bones and Sinews, Andrewshire Gallery (USA, 2011), Kota Sunyi, CP ArtSpace (Indonesia, 2007), Shadowland, Plum Blossoms Gallery (Hong Kong, 2001), and Presence, Barbara Greene Fine Art (USA, 1999).
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