Dadang Christanto
dal 19/12/2006 al 19/1/2007
Segnalato da
19/12/2006
Dadang Christanto
Gaya Fusion Art Space, Bali
Pilgrim Project. The paintings seem to look back to influences ranging from Italian arte povera to Indian tantric paintings to Indonesian batik, with textures and transposed symbols stripped of their decorative aspects.
Pilgrim Project
officiated by Oei Hong Djien
We are pleased to announce a collaboration between the most important galleries in Bali, Semerang and Jakarta — Gaya Fusion Art Space, Galeri Semarang, and Langgeng Gallery — that reflects the importance of Dadang Christanto in the Indonesian art scene.
The well-driven paintings Christanto presents in his opening at Gaya Fusion Art Space seem to look back to influences ranging from Italian arte povera to Indian tantric paintings to Indonesian batik; his stylization is contemporary, intelligent; the paintings speak to each other with textures and transposed symbols stripped of their decorative aspects (e.g., chilly peppers and Indonesian flowers that become flames); and the skilled play of positive and negative space combines with the fragility of his mark-making to evoke a human element that’s beyond borders.
Despite the wealth of references, the names that come first when looking at Christanto’s work are not Pizzi Cannella or Paladino or Pollock, but Samantha Power, Darfur, Rwanda, and, of course, Christanto’s own father, abducted and murdered by Indonesian government soldiers during the purges of the mid-1960s. Because the work is so clearly rooted in its own space, it is immediate, intense, and real.
One would never mistake Louise Bourgeois for being anything other than French, though her art is clearly trans-national. The same can be said of Dadang Christanto. His work is at the leading edge of contemporary art, its impact is universal, but Indonesian politics, flowers, and history are in his DNA.
Opening: Wednesday, 20 December 2006 at 7 PM
Gaya Fusion Art Space
JI Raya Sayan, Ubud - Bali
Open daily 9 AM - 10 PM