The indonesian eye between fantasies and realities
di // pubblicato il 26 Settembre, 2011
Flight to Jakarta , departure day the 10th of July and expected arrival in London on the 27th of August.
These aren’t the hardships of an unlucky traveller but the dates of the exhibition “Indonesian Eye: Fantasies & Realities”, that from the Ciputra Artpreneur Center in the Indonesian capital moved to the Saatchy Gallery.
The Exhibition – thanks to the contribution of Prudential Corporation Asia- introduces the art works (until 9th of October) of a selected group of artists came from the contemporary art setting with force and overbearingness. At first, totally dip into the native background, these 18 artists bring in London the biggest contemporary indonesian art exhibition ever realised.
More or less are four the art works presented by each one and thereby paintings, installations and sculptures merged together in a very attractive visual jumble.
Class 1969, Edo Pillu is an explorer of lives and behaviours; a detective eager to represent the turnabout that characterizes the meeting and the fight between the traditional society and the modern lifestyle, full of social conflicts and an utopian rush to peace.
In the information whirlwind that runs over the sense of common life, the indonesian artist try to represent everything as an istant and strong mind outburst: something that from the mist of time is called chaos.
Rudi Mantofani reply with a formal and visual surprise born from art works that he himself defines natural producer of positive vibes...energies that spread around coming against the observers up and all the elements close to him.
Mantofani first isolates some motifs then blends them. In the deriving result he always puts three essential ingredients: the “conquest” considered as ability to turn materials into specific tools; the “animation” rised from the evocative power created by artworks that take on a new lease of life and finally a contagious “positive energy” resulting from it.
Wedhar Riyadi turn his 31 years old into the outcome of an education full of pure Javanese culture and filled both with media foray, cartoons, space age films, action movie and music and popolar subculture.
The icons and images abundance are for the artists a prolific field from which creating the same teenage world originally sprout from that same ground. Paintings, sculptures and drawings become revealing instruments of already lived experiences and atmospheres, but not for this reason already forgotten.
In this exhibition the talent is absolutely thrilling. The artists named above are just the appetizer, enough to stimulate the appetite and prepare the mind to the colours and shape feist, created by a practiced team composed by connoisseurs and curators particulary skilled.
The Ariadne’s thread is disarming and fascinating as well: the dichotomic relationship between fantasies and realities lives on a perfect fusion among myths, childish games and abstract artistic expressions.