SANUR, Bali (BPN) – ARTOTEL Sanur – Bali holds another art exhibition in collaboration with four local artists: Made Bayak, Nyoman Suarnata, NPAAW, and Raka Jana, also known as “Laik.”
The ‘Build Up’ art exhibition is open and runs from October 8 to December 8 2024 at ARTSPACE ARTOTEL Sanur – Bali.
The exhibition brings together four contemporary Balinese artists, BUILD UP is a momentum to see how the variety of ideas and artistic dynamics presented by four artists with their respective ideas and artistic tendencies are part of the latest development of Balinese art.
The works that are born are the accumulation of how the four artists build their art in their creative process.
The art is present and becomes the statement of the four artists built up from the endless explorative process in their career as artists.
Made Bayak, his ideas that concentrate on the area of art and activism creates works full of critical content about various phenomena and issues that plague Bali and global issues ranging from ecological to social issues.
Using upcycled plastic packaging materials in his plastycology series of works and natural color pigments in his latest works show how environmental issues that are the basis of Bayak’s work are presented as artistic statements embedded in his choice of materials.
Nyoman Suarnata is an artist who moves in visual stylistic exploration from his tendency to explore naive to realistic visuals, with line exploration to drawing techniques and mixing materials of acrylic paint, pastels, and pencils.
His exploration presents imaginative, deformed, stylized forms to the presence of popular culture icons such as toys and superhero figures.
For the last two or three years, NPAAW has often presented an arrangement of square geometric fields like PNG or pixel arrays in digital images with complementary color choices, sometimes with metallic shades such as silver, giving the impression and taste of digital, industrial, and technological.
In addition, NPAAW also often presents works that show how he presents the arrangement and layers of geometric fields in his works, duct tape or paper plaster which is the supporting material he uses in presenting geometric fields in his work sometimes still retains and exposes, how the process of removing duct tape that is partly still attached and partly dangling which he assembles and composes presents an installative and performative feel.
Raka Jana, who is known as a painter who departed from the world of graphic design and illustration in the last few years, has attracted attention to the latest developments in Balinese art.
Conceptually, Raka Jana’s works present an exploration that departs from the vocabulary of Balinese visual culture that he formulates and combines with an anime visual approach and a cartoonish visual style that forms Raka Jana’s distinctive visual character.
Various figures, objects, and ornaments in Balinese visual culture that are inherent and traditionally rooted in Balinese society are explored with today’s artistic taste and popular culture.
“It is an honor to be able to work with Balinese artists who have extraordinary talents. The uniqueness and beauty of the artworks created the mesmerizing atmosphere of the lobby and ARTSpace of ARTOTEL Sanur Bali. It also attracted the attention of guests who had just arrived to check in,” Agus Ade Surya Wirawan, General Manager of ARTOTEL Sanur – Bali said
“We hope this art exhibition will be a pleasure for ARTOTEL Sanur – Bali guests and all Indonesian contemporary art lovers in Bali.”
