I MIEI SOGNI D'ANARCHIA - Calabria Anarchica: Ahmad Fuad Osman 1969 Baling, Kedah, Malaysia Artist

lunedì 16 ottobre 2017

Ahmad Fuad Osman 1969 Baling, Kedah, Malaysia Artist - Art becomes a window

Ahmad Fuad Osman

born in 1969, in Baling, Kedah, Malaysia. visual artist. now living and working in Kuala Lumpur and Bali

Born in 1969, Ahmad Fuad left his hometown of Baling, Kedah in 1987 to obtain a degree in Fine Arts degree at the then Intittute Teknologi MARA (now Universiti Teknologi MARA UiTM).

It was there that he met fellow artists Bayu Utomo, Hamir Soib, Ahmad Shukri and Masnor Ramli and formed the Matahati group. This artist collective has played a pivotal role in the careers of its members as well as in the development of Malaysian contemporary art.

As one of its founding members, Ahmad Fuad’s art remains true to the spirit of Matahati — exploring key socio-political issues and encouraging discourse without creative and conceptual constraints.

His work has found worldwide acclaim, exhibited in institutions such as the National Visual Art Gallery and Petronas Gallery Malaysia; Tacheles Berlin, Germany; The Seoul Metropolitan Art Museum, Korea; Singapore Art Museum; Gertrude Art Centre, Melbourne, Australia; Guangdong Museum of Art China; Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan; Manes Gallery, Czech Republic; Red Mill Gallery, Vermont USA, and many other galleries and museums.

Throughout Ahmad Fuad's career as artist, his interest has always been to communicate the multifaceted and subtleties of human conditions. His entire oeuvre revolves around the fundamental experiences of our existence. He is perpetually drawn to explore the situations that we face in getting along with the ’world’ and how these situations weigh upon us.

He is also intrigued by the irony in the contemporaneity of both most abject and most excessive lifestyle and quality of life of the people that he met, read or heard about. To Ahmad Fuad, constant negotiation between the “two forces” led by ecstasy and agony; hope and despair; spiritual and material; love and hate, transience and ambiguity; fortune and meager are what define us as human.

Majority of his works tended to be up close and personal encounters of his life and surroundings with these two forces. According to Ahmad Fuad, his encounters did not necessarily tell a story, at times, they are meant to evoke emotions and questions. He always believe that art has a capacity to help us to change, move, learn, grow, liberate, reflect, review, analyse, share and live.

In his own word the artist quipped,

"To me art is a journey like life itself. It is something transcient and must not set in black and white, cemented in, or immutable. Apart from my moral and religious uphold, I have never set any limitation or boundaries in the pursuit of creating art. I do not believe in single thought process, style, medium or material, over another. Art becomes a window through which I am given a freedom to get to know life, the world and its Creator."

malay (sian) dilemma

Bed, cow's skull,printed rubber glove,mosquito net,pendant lamp,
leather shoes,texts,wood ladder | Varied | 1998

HOI HOI...APA NI!? DIA KATA HANG SALAH, HANG KATA DIA YANG TAK BETOI...SAPA YANG BETOI NI?!! HANGPA NI SEBENAQNYA NAK APAAA???
Oil on canvas | 244cm x 244cm | 1999

SYHHH...! DOK DIAM DIAM, JANGAN BANTAH, MULUT HANG HANYA BOLEH GUNA UNTUK CAKAP YAAA SAJA , BAGHU HANG BOLEH JOIN DEPA... SENANG LA JADI KAYA.
Oil on canvas | 244cm x 244cm | 1999

ISSSHHH....BUSUKNYA!!! HANGPA BAWAK MASUK (S)APA NI?!!
Oil on canvas | 244cm x 244cm | 1999

AAARRGGHHHH...PLEASE GET YOUR FILTHY HANDS OUT MEEE!!!
Oil on canvas | 250cm x 274cm | 2000

MR D'S last meal
Oil paintings on canvas (11 panels), wing chair, video projection, wall text |
varied | 2002

IMITATING THE WOOD
Oil on canvas | 244cm x 150cm | 2004

IMITATING THE MOUNTAIN
Oil on canvas | 150cm x 244cm | 2004

ANOTHER HOPE
Oil on canvas | 122cm x 133cm | 2004

GAZING AT THE SUN
Oil on canvas | 46.5cm x 72cm | 2004
vermont series

FATAMORGANA # 1 - DREAM ON
Oil on canvas | 119cm x 173cm | 2006

FATAMORGANA #2 STATE OF CONFUSION
Oil on linen | 244cm x 150cm | 2006

FATAMORGANA #3 THE SPOTLIGHT OBSESSION
Oil on linen | 350cm x 300cm | 2006

FATAMORGANA #4 FLYING LESSON
Oil on linen | 122cm x 150cm | 2006
korean-series

Power Is So Sweet That Whoever Tastes It Wants More - Ahmad Fuad Osman
Acrylic on canvas | 123cm x 92cm | 2008

MELUGAI
Acrylic on canvas | 237cm x 279cm | 2009

WASIAT SULAIMAN
Acrylic & spray paint on canvas | 237cm x 279cm | 2009

To Whom It May Concern - Ahmad Fuad Osman

Acrylic on canvas | 194cm x 266cm | 2009

SENYUM SEORANG MONYET: HOMAGE TO IBRAHIM HUSSEIN

Bitumen on canvas | 150cm x 94cm | 2009

THE THINKER: SLIGHTLY AFTER RODIN

Bitumen and Oil on canvas | 2009

THE THINKER: UNTITLED

Bitumen and Oil on canvas | 2009

Bitumania - Ahmad Fuad Osman

bimasakti

Acrylic on canvas | 198cm x 213cm | 2009

A Victim Of Circumstances - Ahmad Fuad Osman

UV print on dartboard,darts,surround | 2009

Shit Happens - Ahmad Fuad Osman

Shelf,blender,neon light,fish,water plants | 2010

Sidang Sunyi Para Siddartha -Ahmad Fuad Osman

Wood, oil painting on canvas,pendant lamp,sawdust | 2012

hantuhantuhantuhantuhan

UV print on laser cut mirror polished stainless steel | 100cm x 210cm | 7 + 2 APs | 2013

insomnia

Oil painting on canvas, 17 framed photographs, 2 posters, LED display
| Variable | 2011/14

This Is Certainly Not Like We Thought It Was - Ahmad Fuad Osman

Stuffed Crow, Water in glass water container, Pebbles, Books. | Variable | 2014

VESUVIUS

Oil On Canvas | 273cm x 390cm | 2015

I think

Oil On Canvas | 273cm x 390cm | 2016

DE MALACCA MEMORIAL PROJECT

Single channel video projection, oil paintings on canvas, fiberglass and resin castings,
Old parchments, Maps and prints, 16th century Portuguese coins, 16th century
Portuguese canon and bullets, Ming ceramics, Old Malay daggers and spears, Carved
whale and marlin’s bones, Wall text, Rosary beads and paternoster, iPads, Replica of
16th century Malay and Spanish sailor’s clothes and found objects. | Variable
(a room installation) | 2016/2017