063
b. Sabah, 1956
Awang Damit Ahmad
Alun-Alun KeMarista 6-97
1997
signed on reverse
mixed media on canvas
71 x 76cm
Provenance
Private collection, Kuala Lumpur.
Estimate
RM 8,000 – 12,000
Price Realised
RM 9,900
LITERATURE
Alun-Alun Ke Marista (Path To Marista, 1996-2002) June 28-Aug 4, 2002, National Art Gallery (cata-logue, exhibition)
Essence of Culture, 1985-95, National Art Gallery, April 18-30 (catalogue, exhibition)
Alun-Alun Ke Marista (Path to Marista, 1996-2002) is a logical extension from Awang Damit’s Essence of Culture (EOC) series from 1985 to 1995 detailing in abstract forms memories of childhood from man-made utensils and the natural environment at Kuala Penyu, Sabah and upriver. Here the triple boat shapes are also symbols of the pohon hayat (tree of life), fish and shield with flourishes of heroic reds.
The Marista works are more refined and elegiac from the rougher, coarse and even sharper edged Essense of Culture series.
