Nc Dream Mb...

Perhiasan terindah adalah kerendahan hati.
Kasih yang terpuji adalah kesetiaan.
Kekayaan terbesar adalah kejujuran.
Senjata terkuat adalah kesabaran.
Pengaman terpenting adalah iman.
Obat termanjur adalah doa.

[SMS dari H. Oktya Dewi, 18 Februari 2009, 22:48 WIB]

AYI 2: Asian Youth Imagination

Pameran Seni Visual Berbasis Performance Art
Jogja Gallery, Yogyakarta | 28 Februari – 11 Maret 2009

Peserta Menampilkan 15 orang performer yang berasal dari negara di Asia, yaitu

Korea : Kim Ji Hee
Sri Lanka : Janani Coornay
Myanmar : Moe Satt
Taiwan : Che Shih Sun a.k.a REDCAT
India : Sapna H.S, Mangala Anobermath
Jepang : Kana Fukushima, Sohei Nomoto

Indonesia : Arif Darmawan, kelompok Harmoni Kota, Angga Wedaswhara, Citra Pratiwi,

Rennie “emonk” Agustine, M. Lugas Sylabus, I Made Suryadarma

PENGANTAR PAMERAN ASIAN YOUTH IMAGINATION 2

[AYI 2]

Asian Youth Imagination 2 (AYI 2), adalah lanjutan dari even performance art serupa yang diadakan Desember 2008 lalu di Jepang. Pada even kedua ini, sifat acara dibedakan dari sebelumnya meskipun mempertahankan elemen utama, penyajian karya-karya performer muda usia yang tinggal di Asia. Muda disini dibatasi dengan rentang umur 33-19 tahun. AYI 2 diinisiasi oleh tim produksi yang anggotanya juga berusia muda, bernama “We Are Imagining”.

AYI 2 menampilkan semua elemen yang ada dalam wacana performance art, kemudian mengumpulkannya menjadi suatu kesatuan yang sama kuat untuk diapresiasi. Yakni, video performance, dokumentasi performance, penampilan langsung (live performance), dan segala kemungkinan ekstensi dari bentuk performance art dalam bentuk bekunya. Seluruh elemen tersebut akan disajikan layaknya pameran visual yang sering diadakan di Yogyakarta dan Indonesia.

Istilah Performance Art dalam kajian seni rupa dicatat sebagai seni penampilan atau seni performa, dimana tubuh menjadi media utama dalam menampilkan pesan atau konsep ingin disampaikan oleh perupa. Performance art dalam pameran ini adalah aksi yang dilakukan seseorang atau kelompok dengan berbagai aspek yang dipersiapkan, direkayasa, kemudian dimanfaatkan. Aspek-aspek ini mencakup pemosisian tubuh performer sebagai subyek yang menghubungkan dirinya dengan sekitar, dalam jangkauan ruang dan kurun waktu tertentu.

Dengan diselenggarakannya pameran ini diharapkan dapat membangun dan memperluas jaringan antar seniman muda Asia, melihat evolusi para performer muda, forum untuk berbagi pengalaman proses kekaryaan, sekaligus sosialisasi penyajian performance art selain melalui format festival.

Tanpa mengurangi rasa hormat kami, ini sekaligus menjadi undangan bagi Anda untuk dapat hadir pada acara pembukaan Sabtu, 28 Februari 2009, pukul.14.00 WIB (2 siang).

KETERANGAN :
Tim Produksi pameran adalah “WE ARE IMAGINING"

Pameran berlangsung hingga 11 Maret 2009
Jam buka Jogja Gallery Selasa-Minggu, 09.00 – 21.00 WIB

1) 6 pendukung acara:

performer dan penyelenggara AYI 1, Jogja Gallery, Indonesian Visual Art Archive (IVAA),

kotakhitam, YORC, Majalah GONG

2) 8 Partner :

Mall Galeria, Toko Buku Togamas, Novotel Hotel, Grand Mercure, PT Dakota Cargo,

Royal Garden Restaurant, Mall Ambarrukmo Plaza dan Jogja Plaza Hotel.

3) 7 Media Partner :

Radio RRI Pro 2 102.5 FM, Jogja TV 48 UHF, Truly Jogja, Kabare Magazine, Kompas, Kedaulatan Rakyat

dan Bernas.

PAMERAN SELANJUTNYA DI JOGJA GALLERY :
Pameran Tunggal Fotografi Karya Soeprapto Soedjono (Rektor Institut Seni Indonesia |ISI Yogyakarta)

“Z..Z…Z….Z….PHOTOGRAPHY”
(21 Maret – 5 April 2009)

Genre karya-karya fotografi ‘human interest’ biasanya menampilkan subjek dengan berbagai aspek tentang manusia dalam beragam aktifitas kehidupan sehari-harinya. Baik itu yang menyangkut kegiatan yang dilakukannya secara sadar sebagai manifestasi sikap, gerak-gerik, dan tingkah lakunya untuk tujuan tertentu maupun yang merefleksikan hal-hal yang dilakukan sebagai kegiatan yang tidak disadari atau ‘ketidaksengajaan’. Namun tidak semua yang terekam oleh kamera karena bersubjek manusia selalu dapat dikategorikan sebagai karya foto ‘human interest’. Hanya yang memiliki nilai ‘interest’ sajalah yang layak dapat dikategorikan sebagai karya foto dalam genre tersebut.

Informasi & kontak, silakan hubungi :

JOGJA GALLERY [JG]
Jalan Pekapalan No. 7, Alun-alun Utara 55000 Yogyakarta
Telp. +62 274 419999, 412023
Telp/Fax. +62 274 412023
Telp/SMS. +62 274 7161188, +62 888 696 7227
Email jogjagallery@yahoo.co.id / info@jogja-gallery.com
http://jogja-gallery.com

WE ARE IMAGINING
Email :we.are.imagining@gmail.com
Telp/SMS : +62 888 682 1414 [Cp. Agni]

Thank you Noris...

Hal yang paling penting dalam hidup ini adalah belajar mencintai
dan membiarkan cinta itu datang.
[Morris 'Morrie' Schwartz | pendidik asal AS | 1916 - 1995]

Fresh Equals to Honest

Happy New Year 2009!
New Year is always identified with reflection, contemplation and introspection on what we have achieved during the previous year. It always begins with new hope, dream and spirit, and so does the 39^th visual art exhibition in Jogja Gallery. As a mark of our step to enter the beginning of 2009, this exhibition will raise a simple theme and free every artist to explore themselves on their works. What is going on today? Things concerning ourselves, our dreams and hopes, our closest neighborhood, our fine art issues up to the issues about the latest global discourses color the theme of every work that will be exhibited from 23 January to 22 February 2009.

This exhibition wants to start this New Year by exhibiting our artists’ new works, new ideas, new way of exposition and new technique. Theme that seems to be simple is seriously responded by the participating artists. Talking in term of technique, AT Sitompul presents his work that constitutes a revival of his painting work after for a long time he focused on printmaking technique. In his biodata, the last time he made painting exhibition was in 2003. According to him, one of ways to make our minds and souls refreshed is by doing something that is beyond our habits and works.

It is different with Daniel ‘Timbul’ Cahya Krisna who still sticks to printmaking art and expects to be able to bring something new amid the affluence of painting works. Due to his consistence, recently he has been awarded as a young artist who is very dedicated to printmaking (Academic Art Award #2, 2008). It is also important to record the existence of Kelompok Simponi, which was formed in 2007, consisting of 4 female artists who were born in 1980s, and have set off from different backgrounds of art major interests. Simponi, which stands for Sindikat Monster Poni (Syndicate of Monsters with Bangs), explore media of textiles and fibers to create interesting and amusing works that seem not to have distance with the audience.

Similarly, the works of Antoni Eka Putra, Andrew K. Jack, Dedy Sufriadi, I Ketut Teja Astawa, Pramono Pinunggul and Yusron Mudhakir put forward the main elements of artworks, namely color, line, texture, shape, space and composition. Antoni Eka Putra for this occasion is simpler in playing with line and color. Yet his work still looks impressive. Routine at times can imprison us; existence shall live without monotone but with mobility. That is Antoni’s statement. Almost similar, as far as I know, Yusron Mudhakir is consistent in emphasizing and discussing the quality of colors. However, he seems to put softer colors in his work titled Risalah Warna #2. Meanwhile, Dedy Sufriadi and Agus ‘Baqul’ Purnomo put texts as main element in their works. Andrew K. Jack, the only foreign artist, from New Zealand, wants to appear again and enrich the dynamics of Indonesian fine art after his last solo exhibition in the end of 2002 in Jakarta. For those knowing Andrew, theme related to fish is not a new thing for his works, but the way he finishes his works with resin is something that we rarely see in works of painting.

The presence of surrealism work belonging to Gusmen Heriadi and two abstract works belonging to two Balinese artists, I Made Supena and I Made Mahendra Mangku, shows a similar theme. It is about reflection and time. Request to retrospect on the significance of the values of opportunity, space and time is well described in their modest and harmonious works.

Take a look at the works of Agus Yulianto, Ahmad Sobirin, Asmualiawan, Erica Hestu Wahyuni, Heri Purwanto, Ida Bagus Komang Sindu Putra, I Nyoman Triarta, Niko Siswanto, RM Soni Irawan, Solichin, Komroden Haro and “Otje”. They have found and taken their inspirations from what is happening within them and in their closest neighborhoods. They are not boasting and talking about things that are so complicated. They just stick to the daily problems, rotation of the wheel of life, state of when one sustaining the other, and struggle to survive. These are symbolized by one of vehicle parts. Despites its little shape, it is very important because it can move and stop the other parts. See the work of Fransgupita, Engine Stop.

However, some of our artists still have idea to create works departing from political issues that are heating lately like the global economic recession and conflict in Middle East region which has become the world concern. The works of Abdul Fattah, Agus ‘Baqul’ Purnomo, Farhansiki, Khusna Hardiyanto and Robi Fathoni tell about the domination of United States of America, which has impacts on most countries.

This exhibition wants to bring new surprises following the abundance events during 2008 up to the beginning of this year. Surprise or freshness is certainly relative and subjective. My being fresh must be different with yours, and so must be with the freshness of the 31 artists participating in this visual art exhibition, FRESH 4 U. Hence, this exhibition indeed gives us new artworks with new significance. Although most of the artists and I agree that a fresh work is a work that is inspiring for its audience, what is more important is that the work must be honest.

We try to present this FRESH 4 U exhibition due to our anxiety of the situation and development of Indonesian fine art today. We would like to challenge the artists to be able to produce and exhibit artworks that are really different and refreshing. Is it right that our fine art is experiencing stagnancy? Is it right that our art market is depressing following the profusion of transactions in every corner of exhibition space in this country? An installation work of Tisna Sanjaya entitled Mobile Seniman (Mobile Artist) satirizes this assumption. Are we honest when creating work? Are we honest when talking? And, are we honest when doing transaction?

Nunuk Ambarwati
Program Manager of Jogja Gallery