VIVAnews - The exhibition features five young and up-and-coming artists from Yogyakarta who have mostly studied and worked together since their early college years at the Indonesian Art Institute (ISI) in the early 2000s until present. Their works comprise a wide range of medium, from paintings, murals, grafitti, comics, illustrations, freestyle, animation, print and digital art.
The 5 artists are a part of a cluster of Indonesian young artists coming up from subcultures that have grown up within the paradoxes of Western multiculturalism and changing values in their own country, MTV invasion, cable TV, internet, and neoliberalism. In their works, we can see traces of influences of Pop Culture, the Indie Movement, graphic novels, ‘lowbrow art’, pop surrealism streetstyle fashion and more, that somehow also affect the sense of becoming of this part of the Indonesian young generation.
The exhibition are divided into two parts: Geek House and Geek Shop, resembling the concept of urban shophouse. The installation on the first floor is the Geek House, an assemblage of pieces of their world made from their own collections of personal things that are significant in constructing their identities, references, knowledge and self, all installed in a squad-like installment that reflect their communal spirit and life style.
The second floor is the Geek Shop, where they show their ‘pret-a-porter’ works for sale, to highlight the irony of the point where creative pleasure becomes commoditized, a situation that they have to deal with now and has come to a point of reconsideration. The point is not precisely about ‘to sell or not to sell’, but how the things that they value in their own way are reproduced into things of another value when they enter another system or powerstructures, i.e. market, for example.
Place : Nadi Gallery, Jl. Kembang Indah III, Blok G III no. 4 - 5 Puri Indah, Jakarta Barat.
Exhibition Curator : Farah Wardani
Artists : Decki "Leos" Firmansah, Iwan Effendi, Terra Bajraghosa, Uji 'Hahan' Handoko Eko Saputro and Wedhar Riyadi
Date : January 20, 2009 to February 9, 2009
Open to Public : Monday - Friday: 10.00 - 19.00, Saturday - Sunday : 10.00 - 14.00
Contact: (62-21) 5805677 or info@nadigallery.com
Website : www.nadigallery.com
