LOT 23
ALI NURAZMAL YUSOFF
B. Penang, 1978
Imitation Master After Caravaggio – Just Swipe It, 2017
Oil on canvas
183 x 273 cm
Private Collection, Kuala Lumpur
Signed by artist and dated ‘17 on lower right
RM 100,000 – 150,000
Through his career, the artistic development and keen progression is clear within Ali Nurazmal, from abstraction to figurative and now incorporating movement into his works. Always displaying strong technical skills, Ali Nurazmal aptly embeds powerful yet subtle messages within his aesthetic works. Graduating in Fine Art from MARA University of Technology (UiTM) Malaysia in 2001, Ali Nurazmal has won numerous awards in national and international art competitions. His artworks are collected by public and private collectors internationally. In 2009, Ali Nurazmal Yusoff created a work titled Imitation Master After Caravaggio, which, as indicated, was an imitation of the Italian master’s 1594 painting, “The Cardsharps”. It would become the start of a series of such imitations, in a much more intertwined manner and more boldly than the one before. That sense of experimentation and revisiting of classical painting techniques has since then effected and broaden his artistic practice.