Relics of A Dreaming
Kuta
Galang Kangin Group Exhibition
Artists: I Made Budi Adnyana, I Dewa Soma Wijaya, I Made SUpena, Ketut Teler, I Wayan Setem, I Nyoman Diwa Rupa, I Made Ardika, Wayan Naya Swanta, Made Galung Wiratmaja, I Gusti Putu Muliana, I Made Gunawan, I Nyoman Ariwinata, Made Sudana, Agung Putra
Start Time: Friday, May 7, 2010 at 7 pm
End Time: June 7, 2010
Venue: Gaya Art Space
Address: Jl. Raya Sayan, Ubud – Bali
Art in Action (Art Auction)
ART IN ACTION ( ART AUCTION)
Ubud, Bali, from 7pm on Saturday May 1, Gaya Art Space in Sayan, one of Bali’s most exciting art and design establishments and exhibition spaces, will host an evening of art in action featuring some of the finest artists currently working in Bali. World famous abstractionist and _King of Action Painting_ Theos will splash and daub his way across a 10,5 x 2,25 metre canvas, while Nico Vrielink, one of the greatest large-format portraitists working on this or any island will create a very different work on an adjacent wall.
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Arsenic Fantasy
“This exhibition marks a truly important point of my career. Although I have exhibited internationally in the past, it is the first time I’m showing work in Indonesia. I have quite an eclectic background; born in New York, our Balinese family lived in Indonesia, Singapore, America and the UK. Growing up I developed quite a strong affinity to Bali, considered it as one of my many ‘homes’ and quickly learnt that ‘identity’ was neither fixed nor stable. ‘Identity’ was not about where you lived or about where your parents came from; rather it was about developing a series of differences; establishing a role in the world that was culturally constructed, wholly transient and constantly changing in relation to a globalised economy.”
Sponsored by the British Council UK, London based artist Sinta Tantra, acclaimed for her public artworks and installations, stages her first major international solo show this November in Indonesia’s prestigious Gaya Art Space. The exhibition explores ideas surrounding fantasy and identity; simultaneously celebrating as well as deconstructing surface surface sheen, seduction and faith in artifice.
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Jejak Rupa I Nyoman Sujana Kenyem
JUDUL BUKU: I Nyoman Sujana Kenyem: An Artist from The Silence of Sayan
PENULIS: I Wayan Suardika
TEBAL: 250 halaman
TAHUN: September 2009
PENERBIT: Pustaka Suardi Denpasar
HARGA: Rp 50.000
LAUNCHING: 26 September 2009, pukul 19.00. Wita di Gaya Fusion Art Space, Sayan, Ubud
Twin Sons of Different Mothers
The concept of creating a joint exhibition entitled “Twin Sons of Different Mothers” evolved over time rather than on this occasion being birthed together.
Two souls connected for over six years this time around; attracted in a desire to express and create a mixed medium offering of our past, present and future.
A sincere and divine offering of Sekala (tangible) and Niskala (intangible).
One soul from Bali of the Brahman caste and the other a Celtic spirit traveling the world in search of hiding relatives; the ultimate reconnection of souls in unison.
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Punching The Devil – Artwork
With these latest sculptures from his ongoing Everyone series, Rodney Glick – an Australian artist – presents us with a strange and intriguing cultural mix. The works are loosely based on Indian Hindu paintings from the 18th and 19th centuries. [Curatorial] [Exhibition Detail]
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Punching The Devil – Curatorial
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New works from Rodney Glick’s Everyone series. With these latest sculptures from his ongoing Everyone series, Rodney Glick presents us with a strange and intriguing cultural mix. The works are loosely based on Indian Hindu paintings from the 18th and 19th centuries. Glick has staged certain scenarios depicted in these paintings using Australian models, and these scenarios have then been photographed and digitally altered. The resulting manipulated images are exhibited as framed digital prints in their own right. These composite images also serve as source material for the Balinese woodcarvers and painters who have created these sculptures, with Glick providing direction and making the artistic decisions.
Punching The Devil, A Solo Exhibition by Rodney Glick
PUNCHING THE DEVIL
With these latest sculptures from his ongoing Everyone series, Rodney Glick – an Australian artist – presents us with a strange and intriguing cultural mix. The works are loosely based on Indian Hindu paintings from the 18th and 19th centuries. Glick has staged certain scenarios depicted in these paintings using Australian models, and these scenarios have then been photographed and digitally altered. The resulting manipulated images are exhibited as framed digital prints in their own right. These composite images also serve as source material for the Balinese woodcarvers and painters, who have created these sculptures, with Glick providing direction and making the artistic decisions.
Through this work we feel we are in the presence of something significant. Non-Hindus are surprised to discover that Hindu gods and goddesses, while being divine, also manifest the fears, doubts and other psychological states
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DITTMAR’S “COLOUR WINDOWS” ON THE SPIRITUAL QUEST (curatorial)
DITTMAR’S “COLOUR WINDOWS” ON THE SPIRITUAL QUEST
When speaking of abstraction in art, what most often comes to mind is the idea of visual language reduced to its core aesthetic elements, of a focus on “form” for its own sake, without the encumbrance of a narrative located beyond the canvas. This is by large true. But the lack of a narrative does not necessarily mean the absence of a message. The great pioneers of abstraction of the early 20th century were enthralled by philosophical and mystical concerns. Theosophy, which sees creation as expanding geometrically from a single point, was a paramount reference to artists such as Kandinsky, Mondrian, and Malevitch. Kandinsky, in a little book he published in 1910, “The Spiritual in Art”,(“Das Geistige in der Kunst”) proclaimed the object of his art to be the spiritual. Malevitch and Mondrian saw their geometric abstraction as the expression of cosmic dualities. Abstraction, to those artists, was the visual formulation of a spiritual quest.
It is in this same vein that Peter Dittmar’s exhibition: “PETER DITTMAR –“COLOUR WINDOWS COMBINATIONS” at GAYA ART SPACE from 31. July March till 30thAugust 2009, should be apprehended. Although the core of his inspiration is not Theosophy proper, but Theosophy’s principal source:
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COLOUR WINDOWS by Peter Dittmar
COLOUR WINDOWS
The great pioneers of abstraction of the early 20th century were enthralled by philosophical and mystical concerns. Abstraction was the visual formulation of a spiritual quest, and it is in this same vein that Peter Dittmar’s believes in; he evokes Hindu-Buddhist cosmological symbols.
Dittmar’s latest artworks arrive at a different phase of the quest. The simplicity Peter Dittmar achieves here is more complex than it appears. It is an achieved form of learning and meditation.
His current abstract geometric paintings symbolize the encounter of the beholder with the absolute stillness of the Void. Peter Dittmar says he following the “Golden Section”, also known as “Divine Proportions”, combined with a sophisticated play of tonal coloration that takes us ever deeper into the ultimate Stillness/Void.
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