The origin of the Taxu group has been the young artists—most of them were still students at the ISI Denpasar (Indonesian Art Institute in Denpasar)—who initiated a movement that sought to fight against the hegemony of art in Bali. This movement created quite a ripple through the world of art in Indonesia, especially because of [...]

Biography 1980 Born in Badung, Bali 1999 – 2006 Indonesian Art Institute, Denpasar, Bali Solo Exhibitions 2009 “Portable Artworld”, Semarang Gallery, Semarang 2008 “Sumiantara’s Painting: Fracturing Meaning,” Koong Gallery, Jakarta Group Exhibitions 2010 Bazaar Art Jakarta 2010, Pacific Place, Jakarta “Reality Effects”, Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta “Percakapan Masa”, Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta “Contemporary Art Turn”, [...]

Moni actually talks about the problem of the painting itself. Moni understands very well that one of the strength of painting has been its ability to create the illusion of forms, with myriad possibilities of characters and plasticity. The pocari sweat cans serve as an alibi for him to compose the character and plasticity of [...]

Erwin shows giant Mighty Beans. He presented images of famous figures in the art world and popular culture. The craftsmanship that he shows in these works deserve a compliment. The people, who are familiar to the visual information of contemporary art, will likely be able to see that the giant mighty beans of Erwin’s are [...]

About Dodit Artawan’s Current Artwork “Sneakers are the theme and subject matter in Dodit Artawan’s paintings. If we find ourselves stand face to face with Dodit’s paintings, we will immediately suspect that Dodit is crazy for sneakers. Such suspicion proves to be correct. Dodit is indeed a lover of sneakers; one can say that he [...]

Biography 1967 Born in Singaraja, Bali 1998 – 2002 Indonesian Art Institute, Denpasar, Bali Solo Exhibitions 2011 “Painting for Painting’s Sake”, Primo Marella Gallery, Milan, Italy 2010 “As the Face No Longer Bespeaks the Soul”, SIGIarts, Jakarta 2009 “Hendra’s Woman: Reframing De Kooning”, SIGIarts, Jakarta 2008 “The Painter’s Palette”, The Aryaseni Art Gallery, Singapore “White [...]

Talking about Guntur’s works inescapably lead us to the discourse of the realist painting, which currently related to photography. We cannot deny that most artists who deal with the technique and language of realist currently use photography as helping tools – in addition to other helping tools, such as projector. Pluralism, which comes to take [...]