March 9, 2012 | 0 
http://dgi-indonesia.com/green-artspace-drawing-exhibition-its-complicated/
IT'S COMPLICATED
18 February – 17 March 2012
Green Artspace, Jakarta
18 February – 17 March 2012
Green Artspace, Jakarta
Artists:
Bestrizal Besta | Budi Asih | Francy Vidriani | Isa Perkasa | Oktianita Kusmugiarti | Sanchia T. Hamidjaja
Bestrizal Besta | Budi Asih | Francy Vidriani | Isa Perkasa | Oktianita Kusmugiarti | Sanchia T. Hamidjaja
Curator: Rifky Effendi
Opening: Saturday 18th February 2012 at 4 PMOfficiated by Djaja Mulia
Hosted by Penty Djani
The theme “It’s Complicated” represents life issues in relation to either personal aspects or socio-political issues, which occurs in the community. In social networks people often use the term to refer to a person’s mood or relationship status . But it can also indirectly indicate art practices currently underway, notably on how various images evolve into ideas and then expressed in the drawings.
Francy’s creativity is much less similar to the steps of Oktianita (Tia) which are widely used medium of drawing in the form of serial images of her surroundings life; that is, the people and the image of urban space. Her work on “Mind Mapping” (2012), Tia’s work shows the map of a city far from over as an angel of view. In this work, she shows the regularity of the arrangement of a town with housing, buildings, playgrounds, soccer stadiums, and others. A glimpse of this picture looks like the drawings of city work-plan for the orderly urban design. Then the on work of “Brain Works” (2012), Tia was featuring images of objects such as stacks of industrial equipment, robotic components, machinery and manufacture. Sometimes Tia’s works are also associated with the reality of her inner side. Both works became a pathway for the raging thoughts that is manifested in the composition of the forms by drawing a detail and complicate, and draw it into a neat line.
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2011/02/14/friends-amp-co-hidden-jewels.html
Friends & Co: Hidden jewels
Anonymous, by Oktianita Kusmugiarti.
Amid the hustle and bustle of large events and breakthroughs in the art world, smaller shows tend to be forgotten.
Yet there are little stars waiting for their moment of truth.
In the newly opened cute gallery called Inkubator, founded by Telly Gontha and Rifky Effendy last January, the exhibition of two emerging female artists shows works that may appear childlike at first, but in fact explore in a fresh way visual idioms revealing thoughts and reflecting on memories.
As Rifky, a curator who is always seeking new young talent, says, the gallery seeks to show recent developments in Indonesian contemporary practice.
It is not that the two artists in this exhibition — who know each other from students days at the Art School of Bandung Institute of Technology — have never participated in a show, but it is as if this new space gives special luster to the details that matters most in their works, something that might have remained hidden in other, joint shows.
Indeed, the combination of embroidery and silkscreen in the works of Leyla Aprilla (born in 1987) comes as a conspicuous highlight on the white wall of the gallery. Leyla Aprilla or Ella for short, says her technique was inspired by her mother’s habit of making crochet. To create her image, she outlines her face with colored wool stitches achieving a surprisingly realistic image.
Leyla’s figures are mostly taken from her mother’s family album, although her interest in history has also led her to visualize Indonesia’s first national leaders with her woollen stitches.
Interestingly, she will always have a background historically fitting to the time in which the image was made.
Bandung 1950, by Leyla Aprilia, embroidery thread, silkscreen on canvas.
While the faces are shaped with stitches in vibrant colored wool thread, the backgrounds are made of silkscreen.
Like Leyla, Oktanita Kasmugiarti or Tia for short, was born in 1987. Her images however, flow not from albums, but from her memory of childhood toys, of good friends who enhanced her energy levels, or of people who attracted her attention and whose picture she took without them knowing.
She likes to observe people while sitting in a café, on a bus or in crowded places where taking photos is less obvious. She also likes to surf the internet for pictures of great men and women she admires, such as Einstein. Tia’s cartoonlike images are made in watercolor or pen and pencil on paper. The work titled Me in Them features realistic faces of her friends, eternalizing the ones she made on her path to adulthood. Unlike the images she made with a pen, pencil or water color, the images in Anonymous are black, for which she used black ink.
Curator Rifky Effendy likes to “hunt” for emerging talents, to guide and promote them with care until they blossom. The gallery named Inkubtor is likened to an intensive care unit for unusually small or premature babies.
“It is a space dedicated to emerging artists so they can exhibit and promote their works,” he says. Physically, the space does have the shape of an incubator. Nestled on the basement of forme building, it is small, minimalist and very clean.
Friends & Co.
A joint exhibition
by Leyla Aprilia and Oktianita Kusmugiarto
at Inkubator Gallery
forme Building
Jl. Wijaya I/39, Jakarta 12170
Phone +62 21 72788242
until Feb. 17, 2011.
Friends & Co : Leyla & Oktianita Exhibition (Opening Exhibition)
19 Saturday Mar 2011
Untuk para pecinta Seni Rupa berbahagialah, karena kini telah ada destinasi baru untuk menikmati pameran seni di sekitar Jakarta. Inkubator Asia, sebuah ruang pamer yang di dirikan oleh Telly Gontha dan Rifki Effendi pada tahun 2010 yang lalu dan bertempat di Jl. Wijaya 1 no.39 ini mempunyai interior ruang pamer yang menarik dan bisa dibilang jarang dimiliki oleh ruang pamer lainnya.
Terimakasih banyak Inkubator Asia atas fotonya.
Friends & Co.: An Exhibition by Leila & Oktianita
Friends & Co.
An Art Exhibition by
Leila Aprilia
Oktianita Kusmugiarti
Exhibition January 22 – Feb 15, 2011
Hosted by Izabel Jahja
Chief Editor Harpers Bazaar Indonesia
inkubator
forme house
wijaya 1 no.39
jakarta 12170
These two young artists; Oktianita Kusmugiarti (Tia) and Leyla Aprilia (Ella) are each other’s best friend. They first met in the Art Faculty of Bandung’s Institute of Technology. Both of them took print class and together they take the challenge of the art world. Tia’s pen drawings shows lots of stories and imagination that are close to her, in a pattern that is somewhat cartoonish and caricatural. While Ella, drawn in the play of historical icons, creates contours made with embroidery techniques, creating portraits which is then combined with images that supports the icon in its background.
In this duet exhibition, Tia and Ella present a subject that is close to their daily life, namely their friends and family. However, they do differ in their methods in bringing about their subjects. Tia does it with spontaneity in a flow that includes a higher complexity of intuitive forms by attractively distorting figures. Tia’s current works mostly take their content from the memory of the warm intimacy between her, the people she knows, and her imaginary ‘friends’ from her childhood to adulthood. The imaginary friends, such as dolls, comics characters, and other characters from fiction and scientific readings that she had, were then projected into various fragments in her drawings.
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http://www.esquire.co.id/artikel/view/201104/205605/Saat-bayi-seniman-diawasi
Post on 29/03/2011
Saat bayi seniman diawasi
“Grogi nih, untungnya saya pameran berdua,” ujar Leyla Aprilia. Lelya, bersama Oktianita Kusmugiarti hari itu memang menjadi pusat perhatian. Wajar jika Leyla merasa grogi. Keikutsertaannya di ajang pameran profesional masih dalam hitungan jari. Kedua seniman muda ini mengelar pameran Friends & Co, yang sekaligus menjadi penanda dibukanya Inkubator, sebuah ruang seni di kawasan Wijaya, Jakarta, Januari lalu.Inkubator, yang bisa diartikan sebagai tempat untuk memanaskan bayi yang baru lahir, memang ditujukan sebagai wadah unjuk gigi seniman yang masih “bayi”, seniman muda yang dianggap punya potensi seni yang baik. Adalah Telly Gontha, penikmat seni, dan kurator Rifky Effendy yang memprakarsai munculnya inkubator. “Tempat ini juga bisa menjadi landasan untuk meng-encourage kolektor muda,” ungkap Rifky.
Eksistensi Inkubator sebagai wadah seni yang konsisten mengangkat seniman muda tentu masih perlu pembuktian. Berbagai hambatan dipastikan sudah menunggu di masa datang, termasuk masalah finansial karena melibatkan seniman muda yang relatif belum terlalu “menjual”. Namun Telly punya semangat jika semua tidak bisa diukur secara finansial. “Kalau (inkubator-seniman) berani kreatif, dalam jangka panjang akan ada manfaatnya,” ujarnya. Amin!
http://aliaswastika.multiply.com/reviews/item/154
by Alia Swastika
In the world of contemporary art, the basic skills of an artist are often obscured behind layers of paint, abstract ideas and tricky installations. Perhaps no artistic form lays bare the true creativity of an artist better than simple drawing. It is one of the purest forms of expression and can be an indicator of the true ability of an artist.
This skill has found a showcase at “SEA Drawing,” which is running at the Ark Galerie in Jakarta.
The exhibition, curated by Rifky Effendy, offers drawings by nine artists from Southeast Asia, including young up-and-coming Indonesian artists like Oktianita Kusmugiarti to older, established pillars of the arts community like Ahmad Zaki Anwar from Malaysia.
Focusing on drawing as a key form of expression, the exhibition also offers a glimpse of how artists from different regions have been influenced by the social and political situations at home.
In his curatorial notes, Rifky traces the history of drawing’s place in the contemporary art world.
He notes that drawing is usually the first step in the creation of a work of art, a means of setting a work in motion that will later be painted or sculpted into a fully-realized piece.
He adds that learning to draw is the first step in training young artists who dream of one day moving on to other forms of expression such as photography, graphic design, architecture, painting and sculpture.
It’s a fundamental skill all artists need to master to move on to the next level of their careers.
It’s quickly apparent to even the casual eye that drawing is a highly adaptable and expressive form of art.
‘SEA Drawing’ also allows visitors the chance to see the pure, unfettered skill of the artists on display as well as a glimpse into their mind-sets simply by looking at how they handle the medium.
A piece by Indonesian artist J Ariadhitya Pramuhendra, titled “The Heaven,” is a stunning three-meter charcoal on canvas work that shows the artist and his mother sitting together at a dinner table.
The image is simple, but the way it is executed lends the work a startling power that gives an inside look into the intimate relationship between a mother and her son.
The artist takes full advantage of the striking contrast between light and dark that he is able to achieve through the use of charcoal on canvas. The final product is nothing short of outstanding.
Ariadhitya is now considered to be one the most talented young artists in Indonesia, particularly in his pursuit of drawings as installation pieces.
His art has gained international attention after he showed his work in Hong Kong at the International Art Fair this year.
While Ariadhitya shows the contrast one can achieve through black and white charcoal drawing, Angie Seah of Singapore opts for a different approach, one the emphasizes detail and precision.
She steals attention with a set of small-scale, intricate works set off with controlled explosions of vivid colorful. She achieves an overall effect by presenting her work as a series of drawings that are abstract representations of her personal thoughts and experiences.
At a glance the drawing might appear simplistic but a closer look reveals painstaking detail and technique. Taken as a whole her work evokes a feeling of nostalgia, whimsy and shared memories.
Renowned Filipino artist Jose Legaspi offers a memorable experience with his work “Untitled.” Presenting his drawing on a single small piece of paper, the artist effectively captures a very powerful and basic human emotion: fear.
The portrayal of a woman, standing alone with an expression of terror on her face, is at once jarring for its subject matter and beautiful in its technical mastery.
Other artists from Malaysia, like Anwar and Jailani Abu Hassan, used the opportunity to explore the human form. Anwar demonstrates his command of extreme realism with his drawing of a naked human body.
Oktianita, one of the youngest artist on display and another local talent, has received rave reviews by putting a fresh spin on a classic drawing skill, the sketching of everyday objects.
The subjects she chose to sketch lend her work a playful quality that is heightened by her obvious skills.
Playing with the visual existence of our memories of everyday life, Oktianita’s work reminds us that the small, easily-forgotten things in life can often be the most beautiful.
(The Jakarta Globe, 30 July 2010)
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Sea Drawing Exhibition
http://outoftheboxindonesia.wordpress.com/2010/08/11/sea-drawing-exhibition/
11 Wednesday Aug 2010
Pameran lukis Sea Drawing yang diselenggarakan oleh Ark Galerie ini bisa disebut sebagai pameran gambar atau mungkin lebih tepat (dan lebih enak di dengar
) disebut drawing, mengapa disebut seperti itu? karena dalam pameran ini kita akan disuguhkan lebih dari 9 karya perupa yang berasal dari Indonesia, Malaysia, Siangapore dan Philipines, ke 9 orang tersebut mempunyai ciri khas karya berupa drawing atau gambar.Bila painting atau melukis lebih di identikan dengan media cat, maka drawing lebih kepada media seperti pensil, ballpoint atau charcoal. Meski sama-sama di dalam ruang lingkup drawing, ke 9 seniman ini mempunyai ciri khas yang sangat kuat sehingga kita bisa dengan mudah mengidentifikasi pemilik lukisan yang ada pada pameran ini.
Oktianita Kusmugiarti | 'My Thoughts' | Pen on Peper | 173x73xm | 2010
Dewa Gede Ratayoga | 'Ikut dalam Trend' | Pencil on Canvas | 200x120cm | 2010
Exhibition Name : Sea Drawing Exhibition
Place : Ark galerie
Curator : Rifky Effendy
Time : 24 Juli – 24 Agustus 2010
Artist : Ahmad Zakii Anwar & Jalaini Abu Hassan (Malaysia), Angie Seah (Singapore), J. Ariadhitya Pramuhendra, Agung Kurniawan, Dewa Gede Ratayoga, Oktianita Kusmugiarti, Dede Wahyudin (Indonesia)
Love Letter(s) | An Art Exhibition
June 9th, 2009 | Published in News
“Love Letter(s)”: An Art Exhibition
Rumah Buku, 9-16 Juni 2009
Menarik, ketika ada perbincangan mengenai Cinta: hal yang personal sekaligus universal. Bahkan para filsuf seperti Plato, Aristoteles, Plotinus, Spinoza, hingga Freud, pernah mengangkat Cinta sebagai salah satu kajian mereka yang menimbulkan banyak perdebatan seru di masanya.
Cinta dalam bahasa Latin mempunyai istilah ‘amor’ dan ‘caritas’; sedangkan dalam bahasa Yunani, Cinta disebut sebagai ‘philia’, ‘agape’, dan ‘eros’, dengan konotasi berbeda–beda untuk setiap kata. ‘Amor’ dan ‘eros’ merupakan bentuk cinta berdasar keinginan, ‘philia’ merupakan konotasi cinta dalam wilayah persahabatan, sedangkan ‘caritas’ dan ‘agape’ merupakan tipe cinta yang lebih tinggi dan tak mementingkan diri sendiri (Lorens Bagus, 1996).
Cinta dapat dipandang sebagai suatu konsep, ataupun sebagai suatu aspek meditasi filosofis yang berkaitan dngan masalah-masalah etis. Nilai-nilai yang terdapat di dalamnya dicari dan dibentuk atas pengalama-pengalaman personal ataupun melalui kajian-kajian peristiwa yang melibatkan cinta di dalamnya.
Pameran “Love Letter (s)” menjadi wilayah yang membahasakan kembali pemahaman atas cinta, atas nilai-nilai yang dikandungnya, yang pada akhirnya diekspresikan secara egosentris oleh para perupa yang terlibat.
1. Angga Aditya Atmadilaga
2. Artha Larasati
3. R. Harisma Trianggita
4. Leyla Aprilia
5. Oktianita Kusmugiarti
6. Putra Arya Besman
7. Windri Apriani
8. Yanu Kusumaditya
Pembukaan Pameran: Selasa, 9 Juni 2009 pukul 19:00 WIB.
Rumah Buku, 9-16 Juni 2009
Menarik, ketika ada perbincangan mengenai Cinta: hal yang personal sekaligus universal. Bahkan para filsuf seperti Plato, Aristoteles, Plotinus, Spinoza, hingga Freud, pernah mengangkat Cinta sebagai salah satu kajian mereka yang menimbulkan banyak perdebatan seru di masanya.
Cinta dalam bahasa Latin mempunyai istilah ‘amor’ dan ‘caritas’; sedangkan dalam bahasa Yunani, Cinta disebut sebagai ‘philia’, ‘agape’, dan ‘eros’, dengan konotasi berbeda–beda untuk setiap kata. ‘Amor’ dan ‘eros’ merupakan bentuk cinta berdasar keinginan, ‘philia’ merupakan konotasi cinta dalam wilayah persahabatan, sedangkan ‘caritas’ dan ‘agape’ merupakan tipe cinta yang lebih tinggi dan tak mementingkan diri sendiri (Lorens Bagus, 1996).
Cinta dapat dipandang sebagai suatu konsep, ataupun sebagai suatu aspek meditasi filosofis yang berkaitan dngan masalah-masalah etis. Nilai-nilai yang terdapat di dalamnya dicari dan dibentuk atas pengalama-pengalaman personal ataupun melalui kajian-kajian peristiwa yang melibatkan cinta di dalamnya.
Pameran “Love Letter (s)” menjadi wilayah yang membahasakan kembali pemahaman atas cinta, atas nilai-nilai yang dikandungnya, yang pada akhirnya diekspresikan secara egosentris oleh para perupa yang terlibat.
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Menampilkan Karya-karya dari:1. Angga Aditya Atmadilaga
2. Artha Larasati
3. R. Harisma Trianggita
4. Leyla Aprilia
5. Oktianita Kusmugiarti
6. Putra Arya Besman
7. Windri Apriani
8. Yanu Kusumaditya
Pembukaan Pameran: Selasa, 9 Juni 2009 pukul 19:00 WIB.
