작품 상세

Jalaini, better known as Jai, constantly breaks the formal and technical boundaries of both traditional and experimental media. Depicted in this sketch is a study of a handsome figure. Perhaps it’s one of the important characters in the 1962 black and white Malay film Lubalang Daik or his own interpretation of the legend Hulubalang Daik. Jalaini Abu Hassan has a double Masters in Painting from the Slade School of Fine Art, London (1988) and the Pratt Institute, New York (1994) after his BFA at the Mara ITM in 1985. He excelled when he won the Major Award in the Young Contemporary Artists (BMS) competition in 1985 followed up with the Gold Award in the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank art competition in 1991. He also won the 1st Prize in the Murray Hill drawing competition in New York in 1994 and the Rado Switzerland competition in 2005. He was a member of the Anak Alam artist’s group which started in 1985. His auction record was set at the Nov 25, 2007 Christie’s Hong Kong where his work, Halal (2007), fetched HK$391,500 (RM196,000).