In October 1994, one of the most politically riveting exhibitions called War Box, Lalang and Killing Tools was staged at, and sanctioned by, the National Art Gallery, albeit at its Creative Centre. It featured Bayu Utomo Radjikin, Wong Hoy Cheong and Raja Shahriman Azzidin. Bayu on the 1991 Persian Gulf War genocide, Wong on the 1987 political snuff-up Ops Lalang, and Raja Shahriman, with sharply pointed tools on the struggles and disciplining of self. Bayu employs both the painted stark images and print-media collage, on the hundreds of metric tons of chemical agents waged in the Gulf War as well as the Iran-Iraq War from 1980 to 1988. Both the fighting and the innocents, primarily women and children, had to wear gas masks to protect themselves from the tabun, mustard gas, VX and sarin packed in rockets and artillery shells. Man’s cruelty had reached new heights, what more with real-time warfare and butchery beamed onto living-room TVs. Bayu was deeply shaken by it. He was in the final-year in his art studies at the Mara Institute of Technology then. Bayu Utomo Radjikin is not only a celebrated artist from the cult Matahati art cooperative, now defunct, but also an activist as gallerist (HOM Art Trans), organiser of awards (MEAA), residencies for young artists and the regional Art Triangle exhibition (Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines). He also helped set up an archival repository, Malaysian Art Archive and Research Support. He is best remembered for his Bujang Berani sculpture, which clinched the coveted Major Award in the Young Contemporary Artists competition in 1991, at a time when most Malay artists were gravitating towards works with Islamic nuances. 1991 proved a banner year for him, for he also won a Special Award in the One World – No War competition organised by the Kuala Lumpur City Hall. In 1992, he won the Minor Award in the 1991-1992 Salon Malaysia, and he also won Honorable Mentions twice in the Malaysian stage of the Philip Morris Asean Art Awards in 1994 and 1995. The highest price fetched in the Henry Butcher Art Auction was RM60,500 in June 2011.