Chan Hampe Galleries presents "The Mask We Wear is One" — a solo show by Malaysian artist Yusof Ghani. This is Ghani's first solo show in Singapore in over a decade.  

Yusof's vast travels to many parts of the world and the travel anecdotes he's encountered are the main inspiration for these pieces. He constructs the masks using his own visual language of movement and colour, manipulating and distorting the image to the extreme. The masks are at once both reminiscent of past cultures and iconographies, and reflective of a contemporary world charged with emotion.

Yusof Ghani leapfrogged into the “Big League” last year when his Siri Tari II (1984-85) painted in the United States shot up to RM190,000/SGD75,800 (premium: RM209,000/SGD83,400) from an RM8,000/SGD3,100 overture. It was a new Yusof personal best – less than two months after he sold at RM93,500/SGD37,300 premium at the Henry Butcher October 2012 auction, also for a work from the Siri Tari series. Five other works in this auction were also sold. (The Star Online, December 2012) 

Image: © Yusof Ghani, Chan Hampe Galleries Raffles Hotel Arcade