Yusof Ghani

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b. Johor, 1950
Yusof Ghani
Siri Tari (Dance Series)
1991-1992
acrylic on canvas
152 x 121.5cm
Provenance
Private collection, Kuala Lumpur; acquired from Artfolio, Kuala Lumpur.
Estimate
RM 50,000 – 70,000

EXHIBITED
The National Art Gallery

LITERATURE
Yusof Ghani: Siri Tari Selected Drawings (1986-1993), EQ Elm Quay Fine Arts Gallery

This Tari formed part of six panels, which were shown in an exhibition at the National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur. This is one of three panels bought individually, with the other three sold to a prominent public institution. The work, done at the tail-end of the Tari Series, reveals the skillful use of just black and white as tools for delineating forms with skeins of white activating spaces as well as suggesting movement.

The Tari series, being Yusof’s most popular and sought after, started in 1985 with a first solo exhibition at Galeri Citra in 1989. This work remarkably betrays no signs of the initial side-effects of a stroke in 1990, in which he took an intensive three months in recovering.