book design by Endira FJ
published by Langgeng Art Foundation
email me to acquire a copy
for more photos see here
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Friday, March 18, 2016
#superduperdecorativeart manifesto
book design by Endira FJ
published by Langgeng Art Foundation
email me to acquire a copy
for more photos see here
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Dangling Durians by Wiyoga Muhardanto
Dangling Durians
a solo project by Wiyoga Muhardanto
curated by Roy Voragen
Jalan
Suryodiningratan 37, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
opening: Monday 3pm,
November 2, 2015
until: December 2,
2015
Equator Art Projects
presents, in collaboration with Langgeng Art Foundation, Dangling Durians, the latest solo project by Bandung-based artist
Wiyoga Muhardanto (Jakarta, Indonesia,
1984), which is curated by Roy Voragen. Wiyoga, an ITB alumnus, is a prolific
artist who has participated in biennales, art fairs, group shows and residency
programs in Indonesia and abroad.
The artist shows his latest sculptures as a loosely constellated
installation in the subterranean area of Langgeng Art Foundation, as part of
Equator Art Projects, yet not in the actual gallery. For
Dangling Durians, spaces have been
switched: the locked-down gallery remains eerily empty for the duration of the
show, instead the non-exhibition space in front of the basement gallery is utilized, not in
criticism of the white cube but to tease urban questions to the foreground by
means of a subterranean detour.
The contemporary is
urban, and our built environment mediates, constructs, reproduces and,
intersected at certain times, contradicts relationships of power. Our
embodied relationship to objects always assumes a spatial setting and space is
never neutral, always coded by (conflicting) normativities. The sculptures are the miscellaneous fragments, the
discarded shreds, the hacked bits and pieces lifted out of our urban fabric.
With flair and wit,
Wiyoga created seven new sculptures and each combines unlikely, even
contradictory, elements, which is further amplified by grouping these
sculptures together as an installation. Each feature, whether as a ready-made
or remade by using resin, is one of our many urban fetishes, obsessions, fears,
guilty pleasures, anxieties, joys, etc…
For the curatorial essay see here.
Publication design by Endira FJ.
For photo documentation by Anang Saptoto see here.
Publication design by Endira FJ.
For photo documentation by Anang Saptoto see here.
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
manifesto #superduperdecorativeart
manifesto #superduperdecorativeart
1. #superduperdecorativeart comes by many names
and in different disguises.
2. We will no longer allow for any more boring
art!
3. What cannot be said, should be joked about.
4.
5. #superduperdecorativeart is beyond beauty
yet aesthetic.
6. #superduperdecorativeart is artificial and
characterized by a high-degree of plasticity.
7.#superduperdecorativeart has no clear-cut
genesis, it's and continuous to be the bastard child of a great many artists,
with and without talent.
8. No one is an artist until one is an artist.
9. #superduperdecorativeart embraces mimetic
desire: that our desires are our own is a wonderful illusion.
10. #superduperdecorativeart has limited use
for authenticity. Authenticity can be regarded a useful artifice though.
11. #superduperdecorativeart plays with an
infinite feedback loop: reflexive self-plagiarism is called for in our digital
modernity.
12. #superduperdecorativeart quotes, samples,
pirates, forges, bootlegs, imitates, borrows, mimics, copies transposes,
plagiarizes, steals, appropriates and echoes from whatever sources we see fit:
nothing is holy.
13.
14.
15. #superduperdecorativeart's interventions are
unpredictable and unstable – long live contingency!
16. #superduperdecorativeart does not spell
everything out, use your imagination anyway you like to finish works on
display.
17. #superduperdecorativeart does not aim to
bridge contemporary art and everyday life, whatever the latter might mean, but
see statement 12.
18. #superduperdecorativeart does not make
statements, let alone statements on factual reality.
19. Pure logics does not apply to the
aesthetics of #superduperdecorativeart, which does not mean that
#superduperdecorativeart is beyond discourse, but, for a change, lets speak in
French tongues, paradoxes, lies, hyperboles and contradictions.
20. Sometimes a shoe is just that: a shoe.
Sometimes a shoe does not signify or symbolize a meaningful concept or idea
(but sometimes, maybe, it does).
21. #superduperdecorativeart does not care the
slightest for democracy, but does care about/for aesthetics as well as ethics
(the two sides of the same proverbial coin).
22. #superduperdecorativeart is
post-post-colonial art as well as post-identity politics.
23. #superduperdecorativeart offers pleasure:
emotional, spiritual as well as intellectual pleasure – but can also cause
discomfort in the faint hearted. It is, therefore, best enjoyed in small doses
in good company.
24.
25. Every day is a great day for
#superduperdecorativeart; no one has the last word on #superduperdecorativeart,
not even the artist (nor this author).
26. #superduperdecorativeart does not want to
win popularity contests, yet, #superduperdecorativeart might, one day, go viral
and become the neo-avant-garde, possibly the new 0.1 percent.
27. None of the above statements have any claim
to originality. Moreover, this manifesto is far from complete (like noise,
silence can be convenient).
28. The author cannot be hold responsible for
the interpretations of this work of fiction.
29. Copyright does not apply to the above
statements nor the manifesto as a whole.
30. None of the above statements nor the
manifesto as a whole are manifestations of art.
31.
Needless to say, the artist does not agree with any of the above statements nor
with the manifesto as a whole.
Thursday, November 20, 2014
Unoriginal Sin II - Art in the Expired Field - a solo exhibition by Asmudjo J. Irianto at LAF
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