LATIFF MOHIDIN

The works in Latiff Mohidin's Gelombang series continues in the artist's longstanding exploration of the relationship between human beings and Nature in its multifaceted manifestations. Beginning from the mid-1980s, the Gelombang body of works marked Latiff Mohidin's turn towards a more expressionist and gestural approach to picture-making, after the rational explorations of form and line in the immediate past Mindscapes and Langkawi series of works.

The present lot exemplifies the typically vigorous and energetic brushwork that Latiff employed in the series. Gelombang translates to waves in English. Sweeping across the pictorial plane in waves, as if an unseen force, or an undercurrent was guiding the application of paint on the canvas, the painting captures the spirit of a brimming natural force that creates movement.

One of Malaysian art's most celebrated poet, painter, printmaker and sculptor, Abdul Latiff Mohidin's oeuvre stretching from the 1960s to 1998 explores and delineates facets of an adapted abstract expressionist aesthetics, placing the artist as one of the foremost practitioners of modern Malaysian art.