Various Artists
2024
Gil Kuno
NAMIURA
44 x 44.7 x 10 cm - Media Art
Exhibited in Troubled Waters
Hokusai is known worldwide for his Ukiyo-e prints. His most famous work, “Kanagawa Oki Namiura” depicts waves in the Kanagawa Bay, looking in the Yokohama direction. Gil Kuno’s NAMIURA displays the movement of waves on an analog flip-dot screen. Blue and white dots flip to show waves crashing on a deep blue ocean. The slight trickling sound (reminiscent of water) is the mechanical sound of the flip-dot mechanism. The retro feel of the piece is reminiscent of an 8-bit game from the 80s. NAMIURA contains a personal computer which controls thousands of electromagnets which in turn flip the dots. Displayed on July 2023 at NeWoman Yokohama (in front of Balenciaga) thanks to The Chain Museum.
日本を代表する浮世絵師、北斎。彼の代表作、「神奈川沖浪裏」は神奈川沖から横浜方向に向かっ た風景を描いているとのことです。 Gil Kuno作の「NAMIURA」は波の動きをアナログスクリーンに落とし込んだ作品。青と白の物理的な ドットが回転し、波が揺らいでいるシーンが表現されています。 さざなみを彷彿とさせるサラサラとした音はドットがひるがえるメカ音。ピクセル画のような、レトロゲー ムを想起させる作品です。 NAMIURAにはパソコンが内包されており、プログラムで何千もの電磁石をコントロールし、ドットをひ るがえす仕掛けになっております。 NeWoman横浜で2023年7月までご覧になれます。
Ferdy Thaeras
Abyss - Horizon - Metamorphosis - Resilience
30 x 30 cm - Mixed Media - 2024
Exhibited in Troubled Waters
Andi Prayitno
Human
50 x 50 cm - Acrylic on Canvas - 2024
Exhibited in Troubled Waters
"Human beings are cultural and value-based entities with authentic personal qualities derived from their specific environments. A human's logical awareness in the face of life's challenges fluctuates depending on cognitive and psychological aspects. Within each person, there is a unique, sometimes uncontrollable mechanism (id) for adapting to both difficult and happy situations." - Andi
Andi Prayitno
Survivor
50 x 50 cm - Acrylic on Canvas - 2024
Exhibited in Troubled Waters
"Anthropocentrism has become a threat to nature's balance, as the value of the environment and ecosystems is measured based on how beneficial they are to humans, rather than their intrinsic value. Farmers are a real reflection of life's survivors who are manual (simple) in nature, with all their limitations, as they try to sustain life. They believe that working with nature, not against it, yields better results. Sustainable farming practices and respect for natural cycles often become part of the farmers' philosophy." - Andi
I Can't Sleep #2
128 x 150 - Ballpoint & WoP - 2014
Exhibited in OMG? RED! ^ D^
During her time in ITB, Nina was conjured by Meliantha as a way to realize the subconscious (alter ego) in surrealism which had stood as a subjective method of expression, specifically through a modified version of Paranoid Critical Transformation of Salvador Dalí’s in stimulating visual idea and René Magritte’s method for the application. This resulted in a childlike vulnerability that is concealed as the artist grew up, along with the inquisitiveness that might invade others’ privacy. The absence of mouth was intentionally to keep the emotion open to interpretation.
Following I Can’t Sleep #1 which revolves around neuroticism, #2 plays the motionless Nina with the many moving parts in circular motion, so that both the audience and her observes the planetary, ecological and artificial rotation around her, in the searching feeling of what’s more and beyond.
Kalut
Drawing Pen - 50 x 70 - 2024
Exhibited in OMG? RED! ^ D^
Translates directly to Frantic, this work is of how during mental pressure & losing perspective during, a person can lose his bearing in activities, thoughts and behavior. Bangun evokes someone who has as many visions as indecisiveness, silence with a false smile, until the unexpressed thoughts oozes through the cracks.
2023
Petek Sutrisno
Berteman Dengan Doa
170 x 125 cm - Acrylic on Canvas - 2023
Exhibited in Closed Alpha Testing
Roughly translated directly into Befriending Prayers, Petek Sutrisno blends subjects of various timespan that adds to the act of praying itself. Hopeful sparkling eyes are vigilant and flowers bloom despite the central figure’s state of metaphorical engulfment. Black leather shoes imply a scholar or worker status, while the different companions seem temporarily distant but spiritually present nonetheless.
Godek Mintorogo
Study Bentuk
120 x 120 cm - Acrylic on Canvas - 2023
Exhibited in Closed Alpha Testing
Godek borrowed the term study which in visual art means the exploration or trial and error for the purpose of designing or learning. In this piece, its title for an analogy on the myriad of knowledge it takes to tow in the current age, the layer upon layer of each already a diverging paths in mandatory & optional subject fields.