Temple of Threshold
Filippo Sciascia & Roberto Coda Zabetta: Recent Works
Presented by Valentine Willie Fine Art, the exhibition showcases recent works by Italian artists Filippo Sciascia and Roberto Coda Zabetta.
Indonesia-based Italian artist, Filippo Sciascia, explores the power of light in representation, through an artistic dialogue with Caravaggio’s stunning masterpieces. In his series of works, Filippo continues his explorations of the different approaches, techniques and strategies of representation. For Filippo, painting is a medium used to explore his complex ideas about the problem of image identification and creation, and it’s also his further attempt to identify issues of “how the eyes see” the world.
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Mella Jaarsma The Fitting Room
The Fitting Room
Mella Jaarsma
Dikuratori oleh Agung Hujatnikajennong
Dalam rentang 25 tahun kehidupannya di Indonesia, praktik artistik Mella Jaarsma telah menjadi teropong yang menerawang ke berbagai sudut kehidupan yang kompleks. Pengaruh lingkungan tempat tinggal Mella di Yogyakarta — sebagai lokasi di mana aspek-aspek modernitas dan tradisi saling berebut tempat, dan bercampur secara unik — menjadikan karya-karyanya selalu sarat dengan permainan makna yang tak terduga. Karya-karyanya selalu mengandung provokasi dan subversi — memancing pemirsanya untuk berpikir ulang mengenai berbagai stereotip sosial, seperti agama, kelas sosial, identitas komunal, kesukuan, moralitas, tradisi, ideologi politik, dsb.
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YOGIE GINANJAR : Neo-Chiaroscuro
YOGIE GINANJAR : Neo-Chiaroscuro
With writings by Eva McGovern
*There will be an opening music performance by Icarus the kid from Recovert Records at 8.30 pm
Neo-Chiaroscuro by Indonesian artist Yogie Ginanjar contributes a fresh perspective on the identity polemics surrounding contemporary painting and drawing. Through the subtle parody of the treatment of light in European High Art and the playful use of nightclub culture as subject, Ginanjar evolves his signature style of photo-realism and appropriation to a new plane of consciousness regarding the anxieties and possibilities of the medium today.
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