AGUS DARMIKA ‘SOLAR’ (BALI, 1991)
Solar, as he is widely known by, centered his art to examine, reconstruct, and arrange the imbalances in our social landscapes. He interweaves his traditional background with his direct exposures to variety of cultures as components in his works to evaluate our adaptations toward changes in our environments.
Conveying his thoughts through paintings and objects, Solar’s works are metaphors for contructed culture(s). His works are a composition of personal experience and attunement of traditional values and norms.
Visuals of colours, lines, forms, and compositions express an imagined panoramic view of a landscape with various stimulating attributes that are contrived intuitively through his dialogues with his fragments of experiences, traditions, possibilities, and mediums.
Education
2017 Bachelor of Art, Indonesian Institute of the Arts (ISI)
Yogyakarta, majoring in painting
Solo Exhibition
2019 “I Wish To Have This Conversation With You” at Kedai
Kebun Forum Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Selected Group Exhibition
2023 “Broken White Project #15: Lingua”, Ace House Gallery, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2022 “Artina: Wastu/Loka/Kala”, Artina, at Sarinah Building,
Jakarta, Indonesia
“Melting Memory”, Lanö Art Project, at Titik Dua Ubud,
Bali, Indonesia
“Biayang” TAT Art Space, Bali, Indonesia
“Beach Club”, Jhub Art Space, Bali, Indonesia
2019` “Adu Domba X”, Bale Banjar Sangkring, Yogyakarta,
Indonesia
2018 “Nandur Srawung #5” at Taman Budaya Yogyakarta,
Yogyakarta, Indonesia
“Mei-Mei Art In Jogja”, Ace House Gallery, Yogyakarta,
Indonesia
2017 “Arus Bawah”, Jogja Contemporary Gallery, Yogyakarta,
Indonesia
“Partitur”, Jogja Gallery, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
“Mini Wall”, Kedai Kebun Forum. Yogyakarta, Indonesia
“AC x DC”, Karja Artspace, Bali, Indonesia
2016 “TRIP”, Bentara Budaya Bali, Bali, Indonesia
“YOU: CONVERSATION”, Bentara Budaya Jakarta, Jakarta,
Indonesia
2015 “Adu Domba #1”, Sangkring Art Project, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
“In the Name of the Risk”, Masriadi Art Foundation,
Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2014 “FKY: Cut and Remix”, Jogja Gallery, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
AGUS SAPUTRA (BALI, 1992)
Agus Saputra has placed a great interest in exploring his visual language using Balinese artistic idioms, particularly that of Batuan painting style; embarking on new artistic interpretations of the Batuan style and fusing it Western approach in his painting process and visuals.
His paintings are depicted with realist strokes in the Batuan compositions, such as: overall density and memedeg – a bottom upward perspective without instilling linear stance, where size is not used to create the illusion of depth/distance but rather the placement of the objects becomes the determinator (the further from the bottom part of the canvas, the greater the depth/the farther the distance).
The paintings arised from questions that connect the present and the past related to social events/histories and those affecting the development of art, while also looking into the future. Thus, Agus’ paintings are somewhat can be cited as bringing into play the past to move forward in the present where at the same time creating possibilites for the future.
Education
2018 Bachelor of Art, Indonesian Institute of the Arts (ISI)
Denpasar, majoring in painting
Solo Exhibition
2022 “Post Tradition in Batuan Hybrid Style and Realist: Utopia
and Dystopia Representations”, CG Artspace, Jakarta,
Indonesia
2020 “Once Upon a Time”, CG Artspace, Jakarta, Indonesia
Selected Group Exhibition
2023 “Collaborative Imaginations”, CGartspace, at Titik Dua Ubud, Bali, Indonesia
“Sekala Niskala”, Project Eleven, at Smorgon Gallery,
Footscray Arts Community Centre, Melbourne, Australia
2022 “Ubud Print Fair”, Lanö Art Project, at Titik Dua Ubud,
Bali, Indonesia
“On Connectivity”, Kohesi Initative, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
“NEOPITAMAHA: /tradition [in] translation/”, Lanö Art
Project, at Titik Dua Ubud, Bali, Indonesia
2021` “Small Things, Great Meanings: Offerings”, Apel Watoe
Contemporary Art Gallery, Magelang, Indonesia
“Post Identity: Bali contemporary art now”, Artsphere,
Jakarta, Indonesia
“+62361: Unfolding the current ripple”, Puri Art Gallery x
Lanö Art Project, at Titik Dua Ubud, Bali, Indonesia
2020 “12”, Sika Gallery, Bali, Indonesia
2019 “Drawings Bali Today”, Sika Gallery, Bali, Indonesia
2018 “ART•BALI 2018 : Beyond the Myths”, AB•BC Building, Bali,
Indonesia
“Balinese Abstract”, Edwin’s Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
2017 “Trade on Trade”, Bentara Budaya Bali, Bali, Indonesia
2016 “Labirin”, Batuan Art Museum, Bali, Indonesia
AGUS MEDIANA ‘CUPRUK’ (BALI, 1988)
The artistic exploration from Agus Mediana ‘Cupruk’ shifted from realist to abstract mannerism. This mode is driven by, as individual and in his studio practice, his intensity in acquiring the understanding of his surroundings; defining the essence of things in the everyday.
Utilising abstract as his visual language to convey his thoughts, Cupruk’s works derive from his observations of things; questioning and comprehending the meaning of objects, processions or behaviours and its relations to one another that privot around our traditions – in his case, attaching to Balinese tradition.
Cupruk’s works compels us to peal the layers of macrocosm-microcosm of the time and space we are in – the traditions we found our selves in – to generate our own senses of his works and their links to the stories, the chronicles of our own.
Education
2014 Post Graduate of Art, Indonesian Institute of the Arts (ISI)
Yogyakarta, majoring in painting
2011 Bachelor of Art, Indonesian Institute of the Arts (ISI)
Yogyakarta, majoring in painting
Solo Exhibition
2010 “Puisi Putih Tegallalang”, Mon Décor Gallery, J.A.D
(Jakarta Art District), Jakarta, Indonesia
Selected Group Exhibition
2022 “Ubud Print Fair”, Lanö Art Project, at Titik Dua Ubud,
Bali, Indonesia
“Melting Memory”, Lanö Art Project, at Titik Dua Ubud,
Bali, Indonesia
2021 “DIS&DAT (Display of Denizens of Art Things): Visual
dialouges on art toys”, Sika Gallery, Bali, Indonesia
2018` “Art for humanity”, Sanggar Dewata Indonesia, Prime
Plaza Hotel, Bali, Indonesia
2017 “Edu Art Forum”, Taman Budaya Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta,
Indonesia
2014 “Prasangka Membawa Nikmat”, Jogja Gallery, Yogyakarta,
Indonesia
2013 “Taksu Sketsa”, Sanggar Dewata Indonesiaa, UPT Galeri
ISI Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2012 “Agitasi Garuda”, Jogja Gallery, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
“Kembar Mayang”, Museum Widayat, Magelang, Indonesia
2011 “In Flux”, Jogja Gallery, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
““Love of Diary”, Bentara Budaya Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta,
Indonesia
2010 “Let’s Fly an Arrow”, Tujuh Bintang Art Space, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
“Bazaart Art Fair”, Mon Décor Galler, at The Ritz Carlton,
Jakarta, Indonesia
“Art Our Lives”, Galery of the Raday Konyveshaz
(Budhapest) dan Kis Zinagoga Gallery(Eger), Hungary
2009 “Biennale Jogja X: Jogja Jamming Gerakan Arsip Seni Rupa
Jogja”, Taman Budaya Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
“Jogja Art Fair #2: Spacing Contemporary”, Taman Budaya
Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Selected Award and Recognition
2010 Finalist for Bandung Contemporary Art Awards (BaCAA)
2009 Finalist for “The Power of Dream” Tujuh Bintang Art Award
KUNCIR SATHYA VIKU (BALI, 1990)
Infusing his training as a rerajahan (visual mantra) illustrator for his father – a balian (Balinese shaman) – with his artistic experiences working with murals in the streets, Kuncir explores lines and forms that are rooted in Balinese visual language.
Bringing into play his satirical wit, Kuncir composes global-local (glocal) disruptions where forms are enchanted between tradition-modernity. He transmits hybrid shamanistic visuals – merging comic impression with rerajahan traits and a touch of pop surrealism.
Formulating his works in drawings, paintings and installations, Kuncir narrates forward-looking and evaluations on Balinese surrealism and glocal social issues; often where clashes between modernity-tradition, conservative-liberal, spirituality-profanity, norms-exceptions and so forth take place.
Education
2013 Bachelor of Design, Indonesian Institute of the Arts (ISI)
Denpasar, majoring in visual design communication
Solo Exhibition
2018 “Dead Stock”, Tamora Gallery, Bali, Indonesia
“Spiritual Shit”, Deus Ex Machina Gallery Gallery, Bali,
Indonesia
Selected Group Exhibition
2023 “Post Tradisi: Revisiting and future of Balinese painting”,
Mizuma Gallery, Singapore
“ArtJog 2023 – Motif: Lamaran”, ArtJog, Jogya National
Museum, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
“Sekala Niskala”, Project Eleven, at Footscray Arts
Community Centre, Melbourne, Australia
2022 “Berkelanjutan!”, Distrik Seni, at Sarinah Building, Jakarta,
Indonesia
“Ubud Print Fair”, Lanö Art Project, at Titik Dua Ubud,
Bali, Indonesia
“Urup”, Uma Seminyak, Bali, Indonesia
“NEOPITAMAHA: /tradition [in] translation/”, Lanö Art
Project, at Titik Dua Ubud, Bali, Indonesia
2021 “+62361 Unfolding the current ripple”, Puri Art Gallery x
Lanö Art Project, at Titik Dua Ubud, Bali, Indonesia
“Shades of Belief”, Black Hand Gang, at Deus Ex
Machina Gallery, Bali, Indonesia
“Bali Emerging Artist 2021”, Sika Gallery, Bali, Indonesia
2020 “Rythmic Ceramics”, Setia Ceramics & Arts, at Uma Seminyak,
Bali, Indonesia
“Raga Rhythm”, Wild Skids, at Titik Dua Ubud, Bali, Indonesia
2019` “Anatomy of Experience”, Uma Seminyak, Bali, Indonesia
“Drawing Bali Today”, Sika Gallery, Bali, Indonesia
“Sagilik Saguluk”, Tamora Gallery, Bali, Indonesia
2018 “DenPasar 2018”, Cush Cush Gallery, Bali, Indonesia