Moment
236 x 124 cm
Acrylic & oil medium on canvas
Ripple
100 x 182 cm
Acrylic & oil medium on canvas
Remembrance Ibrahim Hussein.2009
132 x 190 cm
Acrylic & oil medium on canvas
Sabri Idrus, a constant researcher in the process of art making, specifically in his
endless search in the production of prints, marks and traces as the notion of
visual representation, continue his journey with Masa Series – that operate as his
medium in conveying his research and thoughts. In this series, the transgression
on his interests that involves strong visual presentation and materiality of the
object is the result from his previous appreciation on experimenting graphic
designs with industrial materials, coupled with the fascination on daily objects
that are almost ubiquitous in the practice of everyday life.
Indexically, the process of mark making and layering of colors in this series
produced traces of what they signify – a visual syntax in forming well-formed
composition in communicating the subject, which is about movement, time and
sequences. The cylindrical-shaped composition signified a set of related events,
movement, or things that follow each other in a particular order, repeating and
creating sequences and exist as natural temporal ordering. Though sometime it
is hard to achieve a complicit agreement on what is being produced by Sabri,
we cannot deny that his new works have entered an expanded field that
liberated the process of art making into a broader spectrum of art practices.
By combining his previous methods and techniques in combining lines, marks,
colors, materials, and sometime mechanical constructions, Masa Series can
almost be appreciated as non-referential indices, since they have the quality to
be freed from any semantico-referential, but signal some particular value of the
process itself. The final objects that are being presented here are the product of
communicating ideas into simplified visual products.
By hafiz Amirrol
17 Jalan Pawang
Keramat Hujung
54000 Kuala Lumpur
E+ taksu@taksu.com