ISA Art and Design is proud to present Convocation, a group exhibition of selected artists, as part of our exhibition lineup for the fifth edition of Art Moments Jakarta. We are featuring artworks from Ardi Gunawan, A. Sebastianus, Condro Prioyaji, Galih Adika, Hadassah Emmrich, Ines Katamso, Jumaadi, Luh Gede, Sinta Tantra, Vienasty Rezqina, Yogie Ginanjar, Yosefa Aulia, and Yuki Nakayama.
From the collection and curation of ISA Art and Design, the artists explore the fluid concept that correlates with contemporary surrealism from different narratives based on their backgrounds and understandings. Convocation represents the different cultures and stories broken into three primary records. Luh Gede and Yogie Ginanjar play with the visual of the unconscious world. Mythologies and beliefs are explored in the works by A.Sebastianus, Ines Katamso, Jumaadi, Sinta tantra, Vienasty Rezqina, and Yosefa Aulia. Lastly, Ardi Gunawan, Condro Prioyaji, Hadassah Emmrich, Galih Adika, and Yuki Nakayama showcase artworks that encompass daily life.
ISA Art and Design will also showcase a private collection of Affandi's paintings. He is a towering figure in the history of the modern Indonesian art scene. Affandi created expressive paintings through the tube-painting technique to present a visual of lines and imperfections of colors that interplay and interlock with one another.
Art Moments will be available for viewing from 4 – 6 November 2022, located at Sheraton Grand Jakarta Gandaria City Hotel – Grand Ballroom and Gandaria City Hall (GC Hall).
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Started his practice in the 1940s, Affandi has been known for his tube-painting technique in which he applied paint tubes directly to the canvas. Through this technique, the paintings depict a visual of lines and blotches of colors that interplay and interlock with one another, creating movements that shape and form his subjects. Throughout his life, Affandi has been recognized as an expressionist artist, but he believed that his works were truer to the subject than any degree of photo-realism. His aim is to capture the very essence of the life-force which suffuses the universe as the dramatic brushstrokes create a chaotic and dynamic attraction to the paintings that intensifies the emotions of the subject.
As a towering figure in the history of modern Indonesian art, he has contributed a lot to the Indonesian art scene. He founded the Community Artist (Seniman Masyarakat) and the People’s Artist (Pelukis Rakjat) together with Hendra Gunawan in 1947. After receiving a scholarship from Indian Government in the early 1950s, he travelled there and continued to Europe where he held solo exhibition in several cities. After came back to Indonesia in 1955, he taught painting and sculpture at the Indonesian Academy of Fine Arts in Yogyakarta. He went to Honolulu as the artist in residence at the East-West Centre and did mural there. He received Indonesian Art Award from Indonesian Government in 1969, Bintang Jasa Utama in 1978.
We welcome Yosefa Aulia as our exclusive artist represented by ISA Art and Design. Yosefa was born in Palembang on March 31st, 1991. Later in her life, Yosefa was awarded a Bachelor of Arts in sculpture from The Bandung Institute of Technology in 2014. She currently lives and works as a solo artist in Bandung, Indonesia. She draws every day, although most of her published works are known to be in the form of installation art and ceramic objects.
Yosefa's works usually consist of the illustrated embodiment of her ideas about individuals and the space surrounding them, in which there are also interrelated elements such as interactions between subjects, objects, and their gestures. Through her practice, she believes that our desire, hope, and fear are merged into a subconscious network, collective memories. While the urge to build, destroy and classify meets the eye, Yosefa's works act underground, rooted and connected inside.
Born in Bandung in 1981, Yogie Achmad Ginanjar is a semi-abstract artist and Indonesian curator. Yogie is a Cum Laude graduate from the Faculty of Fine Arts and Design in Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), majoring in Fine Arts. Since 2004, Yogie has participated in art exhibitions and programs worldwide. His first collective exhibition in 2004 was organized by GALI (Indonesian Painting Association), an art collective based in Bandung curated by Aminuddin Siregar. In 2009, he held his first solo exhibition, 'Neo-Chiaroscuro' and a second one, "Verisimilitude," in 2011, both at Valentine Willie Fine Arts in Malaysia.
Early in his career, Yogie was inspired by Edward Said’s Orientalism, a critique of the binary opposition of the western world's view of the eastern world. Edward Said used binary compositions and popular codes as visual references, and his paintings represent a critique of contemporary and global society. Since 2017, Yogie has developed a new technique combining abstract practices, action painting, and hyperrealism. He is influenced by Renaissance art which emphasized the presence of the human figure. Moreover, his works possess an element of not just hyperrealism but surrealism as well.
