BUANASENI

SABRINA GIBSON 

(Initially named Sex and Rock n' Roll)

Johan Ishak

Oil on Canvas

30cm X 25cm

21 June 2013

3:00am

Shah Alam

 

SOLD

I am also a musician,... an amateur one. I have a guitar. A Gibson Les Paul. I love my guitar. It looks sexy. The curves of its edges are as if the hips of a women. To signify this love, I named my guitar Sabrina. What other surname can Sabrina use if not the brand of the guitar itself, Gibson. To demonstrate Sabrina's sex appeal, I inserted a breast,... if you don't mind.

I puke when I see people buying art work at hundreds of thousands of Ringgit at art auctions simply because they are collecting works of yesteryears. Let the institutions such as banks, universities, councils or even the Balai Seni Visual Negara (formerly Balai Seni Lukis Negara) collect those. No need to rush into retrospective movement. You have already missed the train. The values of Ibrahim Hussein's or Latif Mohidin's or Yusof Ghani's have gone up through the roof. No joke, you might as well buy a house.

 

Instead, it is probably more economical to buy something like this (See image) by a young emerging contemporary Malaysian artist, Haslin Ismail. The capital gains would probably be better and your cash stuck in art inventory would be less taxing. This one is called Death from his (Haslin's) Transfiguration body of art on display now at G13 Gallery, Kelana Jaya.

I have always wanted a good piece from Husin (Photo below). His solo show, Awal Hurouf Asal Hurouf, sold out all his work from Alif to Ya. It was the game of waiting. So I waited, until a good opportunity came..... it was this work, Family Tree, Husin's one and only attempt of expressing using bitumen (or so I was told). Never wait. When a good piece appears, grab it!

PENJARA JIWA GAZA

SOUL PRISON OF GAZA

Johan Ishak

Oil Pastels on Paper

37.5cm X 27.3cm

10 June 2013

12:00am

Shah Alam

www.buanaseni.blogspot.com

 

SOLD