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There is beauty in Age. Its signifiers, lines and wrinkles, contain whispers of a lifetime’s experiences. This is what Dewa Adnyana is showing us with his first solo exhibition ‘The Old & Wizened’ at Gaya Fusion Art Space in Ubud.
The hands, feet and faces of elderly people, framed in brightly coloured traditional sarongs, provides the leitmotif, the recurrent theme of the young Balinese artist’s work and one which has been guiding him since as early as 1998. His unwavering attention on his chosen subject is echoed by the realism and precision of his techniqe, lent a modern edge through his use of bright and unexpected colours as well as his style of composition.
He explains: “The unique character of an old human body with a wizened face arouses my sensibility. With realistic art I try to comprehend the character and drama of life which are communicated by the lines and wrinkles. I am not only responding to what is there, but also trying to process it compositionally as well as with color.”
The exhibiton includes paintings produced between 2002 and 2005, thus giving insight into the evolution of Adnyana’s work, a process characterised by an increasingly modernistic approach in terms of color & composition, with the paintings themselves occupying a minimal area of the canvas allowing for a lot of free space which, says Adnyana, “brings drama to my work.”
Still, realism lies at the heart of his work and he fully intends to continue exploring this approach to art. He hopes to be insrumental in bringing realism back to Bali, which is very much dominated by the abstract.
The exhibition runs until February 20th 2006.
@ Gaya Fusion Art Space
Jl. Raya Sayan – Ubud
Ph” +62-361 979 252/253
E-mail: gaya@gayafusion.com |
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Between Two Windows Exhibition |
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Works from 2 local artists, Gusti Ngurah Putu Buda and Putu Sudiana “Bonuz,” are currently being displayed at Danes Art Veranda gallery on Jl. Hayam Wuruk 159, Denpasar. Buda narrates the philosophical impressions of his spiritual journey through signs and images. Nature and the strong traditions of his surroundings offer him a direct road to express in abstractions, his point of view and power of expressions generating from the experiences of his personal contemplations. While Bonuz’s work expresses daily realities of his life via simplified meanings of expressions. Sadness & joy, darkness & light, complexity and simplicity. In comparing Buda and Bonuz there is neither a similarity nor a difference. Each can be read like a “mark” between two windows. Show runs till February 7. |
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