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Background:
Malik is a gorilla – made out of branches. Malik is a rusty locomotive – silent and heavy. Malik is a man with his head burried in the soil. Malik is a man accidentally triggering a bomb. Malik is all of this and once he is finished with a work of art he goes on to the next project claiming that it won’t have anything to do with the previous. However, he is always visible by a sinister backdrop in all of his work. The beautiful landscape is actually a minefield, the frog is a fat politician and the flamingo is a chain smoker, cause he has to wait for public transport.
The gist of his work is seldom visible at first sight. It takes a moment of looking at an illustration, a painting, a drawing or a sculpture to see what it might be all about. It so happens at exhibitions that visitors are looking at a painting, smiling, then approaching the work of art and, realising what they had just looked at, stepping back with an irritated look on their faces. Surprising the audience is what Malik does best. Always with a twinkle in his eye.
His style is hard to pin down. As a teenager Malik used to hang out near the train tracks and spray paint animals onto pillars. Signing in to Art School in Bern broadened his mind in terms of the materials used, but it wasn’t a successful episode. There was nothing new to learn, he thought, and he decided to quit and concentrate on his own work.
In retrospect the decision was a wise one. In addition to an enormous amount of pieces of art that was created in the following years Malik started designing logos and interior concepts. He is now an internationally renown artists who has collaborated with different artists from different fields. There is no doubt that his ample wit and dark humour will delight gallery owners and visitors alike in the years to come.
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