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Eleven young artists from Bandung were challenged to create works from a spoken agreement of taking up a theme from a banal object, which they turned into something meaningful. Creativity does not necessarily come from grand and fantastic things. Things and events that are considered unimportant, insignificant, and banal may also be a source of...

Erica Hestu Wahyuni, Vacation in Prosperity, 2003, acrylic on canvas, 150 x 200 cm In Erica Hestu Wahyuni’s works, elephants, overlapping figures, crowds, and a sense of the childlike still abound.  For many artists, consistence is still understood as the ways in which they preserve their works’ form and style. Especially so, for those artists with...

Ternyata mantan Presiden George W. Bush memiliki bakat terpendam di bidang seni. Saking terpendamnya, sampai ia baru bisa memamerkan karya-karya lukisnya setelah pensiun sebagai Presiden Amerika Serikat. Pameran perdana ini dikabarkan George W. Bush Presidential Center di Dallas, Texas, bahwa ia akan memajang “lebih dari dua puluhan lukisan yang belum pernah dipamerkan” dalam sebuah pameran...

After showcasing his signature of single body object, now Ida Bagus Putu Purwa presents them in groups, in more colorful blocks and on paper Strong muscular bodies, connected yet unorganized, in one canvas, in various positions. One sits as if it experiences fear. One are on his four, another squats, lies down and on the...

Communicating personal concepts to the public will always be a source of struggle for an artist, especially in choosing what idiom will be used. This is why the success of a work may be measured by whether or not an audience is able to bring out a certain meaning, by appreciating its idiom. In...