As Face No Longer Bespeaks The Soul
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Sometime in 1995, Ugo Untoro had a solo exhibition at Bentara Budaya Yogyakarta. In the exhibition catalogue he wrote a kind of aesthetic “credo”. Thus, he wrote: “I don’t have to strive for shapes and forms. Because there have been David, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Cezanne and Basoeki Abdullah. I don’t have to trouble myself about colors, since there have been Delacroix, Manet, Monet and Seurat. I don’t have to fuss around lines, because there have been Durer, Matisse, Miro and Oesman Effendi. I don’t have to bother about content, since there have been Van Gogh, Gauguin, Dali, Rusli and Amang Rahman.”[1]