ART JAKARTA 2022
ISA Art Gallery presented Titik Kumpul in marking the twelfth edition of Art Jakarta, featuring 18 artists whose works further the exploration of their “orbital path.”
The circle often represents the notions of unity, integration, wholeness, and they give a sense of completion, confidence, and harmony. It is a cycle of moving & working with no real beginning or end. Completing a full circle is the act of creating or giving back, completing a cycle that breeds balance. Titik Kumpul is the place where one line meets another line. In other words, it is the completion a work cycle.
An orbital path encapsulates the artist’s journey summarized in a circle, a shape with no ends, and a repeating path suggesting a constant finding on one’s discovery or exploration. In this exhibition, each artist comes from different places & has marked their exploration through creation, using origins as a foundation. Their origin acts as a starting point, in which they go out to explore their possibilities or one’s surroundings and return to the starting point to evaluate self-development.
The participating artists are Alexander Sebastianus, Arahmaiani, Aaron Taylor Kuffner (Gamelatron), Bonggal Hutagalung, Gabriel Aries, Hadassah Emerich, Hannah Shin, Hardi Budi, Ida Lawrence, Ines Katamso, Jumaadi, Marisa R. Ng., Miko Veldkamp, Sinta Tantra, Tara Kasenda, and Vanessa Jones. Jompet Kuswidananto is selected in Art Jakarta Spot (Spot no. 9), special platform chosen by the art fair curatorial committee for the artist's exceptional features.
Titik Kumpul held from 26 August to 28 August 2022, located at JCC Senayan.
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ARTIST HIGHLIGHT: Vanessa Jones
Born in Tennessee, the Dublin-based figurative painter graduated with first-class honors for her MFA at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin in 2021. In the same year of her graduation, she was awarded the RDS Mason Hayes & Curran LLP Centre Culturel Irlandais Residency and the R.C. Lewis-Crosby Award as a part of the RDS Visual Art Awards Exhibition for recent graduates at the RHA. Her painting titled “Cabbage Baby” was also awarded Highly Commended in the Zurich Portrait Prize 2021 and is displayed at the National Gallery in Ireland.
Her artistic practice explores themes around the ‘feminine’ using self-portraiture. Working traditionally in oils, she employs the history of Western painting alongside medieval and primordial symbolic associations, engaging with myth, beauty, replication and duality as it relates to feminine archetypes. Her ‘personas’ inhabit familiar yet unknown landscapes that are rich in cultural symbolism, and as ‘self-portraits’, the paintings conflate Western and Eastern cultures to reflect her own dual American and Korean heritage.
ARTIST HIGHLIGHT: Tara Kasenda
Tara Kasenda (b. 1990) obtained her Bachelor's degree at the Institute of Technology Bandung, Indonesia, specializing in painting (2013) and her Master of Fine Arts degree in Transdisciplinary New Media from Paris College of Art (2019). She works with oil painting, installation, prints, sculpture, and new media – each of them depicts the spirit of her time while still rooted in the convention of painting. Through obscureness and soft pastel hues that ties her work together, she emphasizes the issues of identity, perception, and memory. The dream-like quality of her work simultaneously evokes the feeling of ambiguity, paradox, and comfort.
Research is the foundation of Tara's work. She collects data, observes, and investigates the history, theories, and studies on colour in correlation to her subject. Her soft colour palette offers thresholds of beauty and chaos, the defined and undefined, reality and dream, old and new - that drifts the spectator into a contemplative sphere. She also takes impressionism as a reference in creating her work, modernizing the art movement with her brush strokes.
Based in Paris, Tara exhibits her works regularly in South East Asia and Europe. She had three solo exhibitions, one shown as a special section for young emerging artists in Art Taipei 2015, Taiwan. In 2019 Tara was recognized as Forbes Indonesia’s 30 under 30.
ANALOGOUS
ISA Art and Design presents Analogous, a collaboration exhibition of two Yogyakarta based artists, Jompet Kuswidananto and Timoteus Anggawan Kusno. This art installation exhibition is held in ISA Art Gallery, Omah Budoyo, Yogyakarta, extended to 30 September 2022.
Jompet and Anggawan predominantly work with art installations, keen to transform any spaces to be an educational and interactive environment where they can share their views on political identity and history with their audience.
Not until the Reformasi era, which began in 1998, artists were able and allowed to express their newfound freedom and rejoiced in their liberation as individuals. This changes the landscape of the Indonesian art scene. Now, without any restrictions, artists such as Agus Suwage, Heri Dono, Tisna Sanjaya, FX Harsono, and many others are becoming more involved in discussing Indonesian political issues and taking their stance in opposing the authoritarian regime with their work. Joining in with these artists, Jompet and Anggawan are eager to uncover the untold, the unheard and the unfinished matters from post-reformation and post-dictatorship that have not been told using fiction and imagination in history as their method.
The term ‘Analogous’ is chosen for this exhibition. It is commonly used in biology to describe the similarity of function and superficial resemblance of structures with different origins elucidating that both artists have started differently but yet approach similar themes. Jompet was heavily inspired by his musical and theatrical sense and Kusno mostly incorporates moving images and metafiction approaches in his project.
Analogous is held at Omah Budoyo: Jl. Karangkajen No.797, Brontokusuman, Kec. Mergangsan, Kota Yogyakarta, Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta 55153 from 8 July to 30 September 2022.
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