The Klinik Taxu Gallery has been pretty active since its opening two years ago, and since then has showcased the work of a new artist every month. The young creative team behind Klinik Taxu in this way keep a promise they made when they opened by showing and supporting the work of young Indonesian artists.
This month, a woodcut printing exhibition, titled “Aku, Badanku, Jiwaku, Masa-laluku” (Me, my Body, My Soul, My Past), by Edo is being displayed.
Edo returns after a 14 year hiatus in which he’s exhibited no solo exhibitions at all, with a very personal & thoughtful exhibition. Through “Me, my Body, My Soul and My Past”, the young artist, originally from Semarang – Java, brings together more than 10 years of his work in one show, a period which corresponds to a whole healing process and certain achievements. At the age of 34, Edo has finally decided to display his interpretation of that 10 year journey..
As Edo explains: “My art, from 1991 to 2004, portrays all this healing process, the love and the pain, and the life we celebrate silently, abstractly, vigorously. There will not be any verbal explanation, but to feel this journey of the self that occurs inside all of us. Even though it might appear some here and there, it still would only reveal a slight sense, a small piece of information of the whole magical event.
As real as we are, everything printed in my art is a time machine to heal the past.”
As in his explaintion, the color woodcut printings are from a happier and more carefree time of his life, 1993-1994, while he was still a student at the ISI Yogyakarta. Meanwhile the rest of his work is a black and white series that comes from a more worrisome and emotionally intense period of his life, as portrayed in “Cosmos #1 & 2” & “Journey #3” (where the figure is trying desperatly to catch an issue, the light).
According to Edo, “we own our past, but not our future” so his own concern is to heal the past for “a better future”.
Edo, besides his study of Art Graphics and his several collective art exhibitions, has been involved in music over the last 10 years
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