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Lot Essay
One of the most distinctive abstract modern Asian painter, Malaysian Ibrahim Hussein is recognised for creating a language of abstract art with fine sinuous line work. The artist's heightened sensitivity and life-long exploration into the graphical qualities of painting has allowed him to propagate a singular and atypical style of abstraction.
Malaysian art writer Chu Li describes the uniqueness of Ibrahim Hussein's painting - 'Each point of rest is also a point of beginning and has no ending. It hums of flux and reflux, innovation and evolution, pregnant with generative tension, regenerative impulses of wave upon wave of the distinctive Ibrahim Hussein lines and colours exuding fluid forms, dancing forms and struggling humanity His lines have attained all primary and secondary coordinates for placing ourselves in a directionless harmony of chaos, at once suggesting, hinting, symbolising for us a total experience of life.'
Val Bon (Lot 3455) is a work completed approximately a decade after he settled upon the creation of works in which line, as a pictorial element, take dominant form. The painting is a dynamic swirl of interlocking, sinuous lines, leaping and cutting across each other in seeming chaos - a dense, fertile vortex of energy transmitted by hundreds or thousands of lines swimming in and out and across each other. Amorphous forms, roughly defined by colours, seem to form but they do not allude to any reality that exists beyond the boundary lines that the artist has cleanly delineated running parallel to the canvas edges. Val Bon may refer to a certain environment or a sentiment but it is, above all, a picture that handles the fundamental qualities of line, colour and shape in a singular and distinctive style that is characteristic Ibrahim Hussein.
Malaysian art writer Chu Li describes the uniqueness of Ibrahim Hussein's painting - 'Each point of rest is also a point of beginning and has no ending. It hums of flux and reflux, innovation and evolution, pregnant with generative tension, regenerative impulses of wave upon wave of the distinctive Ibrahim Hussein lines and colours exuding fluid forms, dancing forms and struggling humanity His lines have attained all primary and secondary coordinates for placing ourselves in a directionless harmony of chaos, at once suggesting, hinting, symbolising for us a total experience of life.'
Val Bon (Lot 3455) is a work completed approximately a decade after he settled upon the creation of works in which line, as a pictorial element, take dominant form. The painting is a dynamic swirl of interlocking, sinuous lines, leaping and cutting across each other in seeming chaos - a dense, fertile vortex of energy transmitted by hundreds or thousands of lines swimming in and out and across each other. Amorphous forms, roughly defined by colours, seem to form but they do not allude to any reality that exists beyond the boundary lines that the artist has cleanly delineated running parallel to the canvas edges. Val Bon may refer to a certain environment or a sentiment but it is, above all, a picture that handles the fundamental qualities of line, colour and shape in a singular and distinctive style that is characteristic Ibrahim Hussein.