- Newsletter Analogous : Jompet x Anggawan
ISA Art and Design presents Analogous, a collaboration exhibition of two Yogyakarta based artists, Jompet Kuswidananto and Timoteus Anggawan Kusno. This art installation exhibition will be held in ISA Art Gallery, Omah Budoyo, Yogyakarta. Jompet and Anggawan are Indonesian artists who predominantly work with art installations. Both artists are experts at creating art installations, and both pieces pervade and approach themes of political identity, ideology, history and culture with a route of fiction.
This collaboration becomes an ongoing process of generating questions, as the two of them have different and intersecting experiences, and it will bring vibrant stages of ideas. By inviting these two artists to collaborate and bring ideas that spring from memory by repeating initial impressions, retaining the power and agility of the original narrative source produces facts that inspire true faith; imagination, on the other hand, deprives ideas of equal strength and agility, so that it can give rise to fictions involving only states such as belief.
In this exhibition, both artists use fiction and imagination in history as a method to uncover the untold, unheard and unfinished matters from post-reformation and post-dictatorship, an era in which society was controlled and suppressed by the strict governmental regime. Both approach similar themes but their origin of artistic approach is distinct from one another. On the one hand, Jompet Kuswidananto was heavily inspired by his music career; on the other, Timoteus Anggawan Kusno predominantly incorporates moving images and metafiction approaches in his project.
Analogous will be launched offline at Omah Budoyo: Jl. Karangkajen No.797, Brontokusuman, Kec. Mergangsan, Kota Yogyakarta, Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta 55153 from 8 July to 3 September 2022.
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- Newsletter Throughline: Geometric and Organic in Abstraction (AMJO3)
ISA Art & Design is honoured to present Throughline, an individual experience-sharing exhibition that explores abstract works with different creation methods. The seven participating artists are; A. Sebastianus, Hannah Shin, Marisa R Ng, Sinta Tantra, Taufiq HT, Yogie Ginajar, and Yuki Nakayama. ISA is proud to donate this exhibition to Art Moments Jakarta Online Offline 3 (AMJO), the first hybrid art exhibition in Jakarta.
Drawn from the collection and curation of the ISA Art Gallery, the artists in this exhibition explore the possibilities of blending abstraction geometric and organic shapes to create compositions. Various approaches can be seen from A. Sebastian, who plays with lines and minimalism, Sinta Tantra with geometric and organic compositions, to Hannah Shin's abstraction of gestures and Yuki Nakayama's more conceptual approach with architectural elements. The work of Taufiq HT and Yogie Ginanjar is unique with abstract objects, and finally, Marissa Ng is more focused on abstract expressionism. This exhibition showcases several abstract artists who use precision geometry and natural organic shapes or objects to communicate themes and gases by discussing visual forms of colour and vivid lines.
Throughline is launched from 11 June to 31 August 2022, at the ISA Art Gallery Jl. Wijaya Timur Raya No.12, RW.2, Petogogan, Kec. Kby. Baru, Kota Jakarta Selatan, Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta 12170 and online at Art Moment Jakarta Online website (www.artmomentsjakarta.com).
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- Artist Highlights: Anggawan
The artist based in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Timoteus Anggawan Kusno, studied social and political sciences and gained his master's in cultural studies. He examines how the imagination and memories exist within the grain of "official narratives," in which he draws upon fiction and history. Fiction is employed within Kusno's work as a method to delve into the unheard, the untold, and the forgotten stories that are shadowed by the canons.
In creating his work, Kusno focuses on the notion of "history-making" that pervades the concepts of power, ideology, and "ignorance ." He also questions the coloniality of power and what remains left unseen. His ideas often manifested through ethnographic and institutional approaches that incorporate techniques including drawing, graphic design, film, photography, writing and editing literature, performance, and installation. In this exhibition, Kusno will showcase the exploration and thinking process behind his latest projects Shades the Unseen, and Luka dan Bisa Kubawa Berlari which captured through charcoal drawings (from In a Landscape series), and a few painting studies (from For Tomorrow May Rain series).
Kusno had showcased his work internationally in several institutions including Mumbai City Museum, India, Center for Fine Art Brussels, Belgium, Biennale Jogja XIV Equator #4: Indonesia-Brazil, and 13th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea, and many more. In 2021, Kusno is honored with the Video Production Award from the Han Nefkens Foundation – Loop Barcelona, in collaboration with the Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona; Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing; MoCA Taipei; ILHAM Gallery, Kuala Lumpur; Centre d’Art Contemporain, Genève and Art Hub Copenhagen. In 2022, he is commissioned by the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, to collaborate with the “Revolusi!” exhibition.
He had been commissioned for the 13th Gwangju Biennale 2021 in which he showcased his installation artwork Shades of the Unseen. Kusno states that the artwork is developed from his research on how the supernatural world, also referred to as the world of the unseen, has become a space for abstraction and a space to encounter and recall things that were neglected, invalidated and refused by the ruling regime and “history”. Meaning, when light is presented in front of you, you will forget and neglect to look at other things such as shadows. These things are shadows of the traumatic sense experienced by the individuals of the past.
