Lot 127
Zulkifli Yusoff
b. Kedah, 1962
Hot Temper Series, 2005
paint using ceramic glaze on clay (engraving)
32 x 27cm
PROVENANCE
Private collection, Singapore
ESTIMATE RM 4,000 – 7,000
PRICE REALISED RM 6,720.00
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One little known area of work that Zulkifli Yusoff also delights in, is in ceramic, which he has sculpted and painted / inscribed over. He directly uses ceramic glaze to paint on clay (engraving). This one where the ceramic tile has also become a canvas, is from the Hot Temper Series. The trademark bandaged figures, like caricature, are there, but he has invested more colours to liven up the staid light-reddish clay surface.
Zulkifli showed his installation, Don’t Play During Maghrib (1997) at the Venice Biennale under Modernities And Memories: Recent Works From The Islamic World in 1998. He won the Major Award in the Young Contemporary Artists in 1988 and 1989 (jointly), but his biggest triumph was the Grand Minister’s Prize in the Salon Malaysia III in 1992. He also won the National Academic Award (Visual Art) in 2007. He made the selections for the Asia-Pacific Triennial in Brisbane, Australia, in 1993, the Singapore Biennale and Art Stage Singapore, both in 2013. Trained at the Mara Institute of Technology, Zulkifli graduated with a Masters at the Manchester Polytechnic in 1991. Zulkifli Yusoff is among the four Malaysian artists featured at the national pavilion in the 58th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale in Venice, Italy. Zulkifli masterpieces were showcased in Art Expo Malaysia 2018 & 2019, and received extremely good remarks.
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