Interview with Encik Suzlee Ibrahim.
Encik Suzlee is one of the nation's most notable abstract painter and abstract expressionist from 1997. He is 46 years old and master of fine arts. Suzlee has been in the art scene for more than 25 years. His famous artistic medium is painting acrylic and history art movement which is Abstract Expressionism (1940 - 1955). The biggest artistic inspiration is he met Robert Rauschenberg in 1997, he was inspired by this painter. He started to paint since he was 19 and he worked in graphic department at advertising and publishing companies before he become a lecturer since 1993. Since then, Suzlee had taught at more than four institutes in Kuala Lumpur.
Through the long years of his experience as an artist, he always painted on canvas to produce his abstract expressionist style painting. There were many times, he wanted to do more textures but canvas limits his action. As we understand that canvas serves us one plane surface and one sided within a frame. Canvas can be rolled, folded and used as collage by layering of it to create texture. Between that, it also has soft structure, which is not suitable to stand as relief work on its own. Thats the reason he decided to find out some new material to develop his new medium of artwork. Suzlee latest artwork is not only apply on canvas, he started explore the potential property of petroleum based material that is "Polyurethane" as a new medium of artwork. Polyurethane is flexible under heat and melt under strong fire. Suzlee used fire to heat up and burn the material to get accidental effects, different degree of fire produces different heat level and this produces different effect to the material. The effects may alter the form, shape and texture of the material, it also can be combined layer by layer to help create relief and thickness. The polyurethane IS finished with oil colour and varnish. He believes this will become a new challenge and enhance the creative process of work. We are very lucky to have a chance for visit 24th Solo art Exhibition by Suzlee Ibrahim "Wall Sculpture" in ASWARA Malaysia.
The process of making and developing polyurethane
sketches
Progress
Develop artworks.
THE ROCK 1
Polyurethane & Oil
2012/13
FOSSIL
Polyurethane & Wood Vanish
2012/13
BLUE OCEAN
During the visit, one of the artwork Encik Suzlee most satisfied is Full Moon.
Describe this artwork using Feldman's Method
FULL MOON
polyurethane & oil 2013
Description
1) The artist's name is Suzlee Ibrahim.
2) Title of this work is FULL MOON.
3) Date of the work 2013
4) Medium of materials are polyurethane and finished with oil.
5) I saw a circle and two C which is reflect vertical.
6) Don't have any subject matter.
7) This is a wall sculpture.
Analysis
1) Only yellow colour apply in this sculpture and don't have any contrast.
2) There are don't have any shape have been arranged.
3) This is a special techniques used by the artist, it is heat, fire and burn to get accidentally texture and visual.
Interpretation
1) The relationship of the title to the sculpture is pop up by the artist when he sketching and what he was thinking plus emotional become a title.
2) Firstly I notice there are many different texture, line, form and it doesn't look like any shape but a little bit like uncompleted circle.
3) According to Suzlee, behind this sculpture doesn't have any hidden message or history. It come from his own feeling and express the mood when he was processed this sculpture.
4) It make me feel like modern, creative,art and curious how was the artist produce this artwork.
Judgement
1) I like this artwork so much, because it is very new, special and look stylish. This is the first time I saw sculpture using different material, special techniques to create accidentally texture and it can be a decoration on wall. There are no limit to create any texture, artist can create it following their own mood.
2) Suzlee is successful because he develop a new medium of his artwork, and I believe it will be famous and inspired young generation.
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