ERWIN WINDU PRANATA (b.1981) is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Bandung, Indonesia, interested in methods of working and finding a connection between art and everyday life. For him art is a manifestation of everyday experience. He specializes in various mediums, especially 3D, using found objects and readymade while utilizing popular cultures as subjects. He is an active member of the music group, Pemandangan (The view), a progressive folk genre and A stone A, a noise rock genre band. Erwin is also the founder and director of an alternative independent space and collective, Omnispace, in Bandung.
COMPROMISE (gesso on canvas | 70 x 120 cm | 2022)
(gesso on canvas | 100 x 160 cm | 2022)
EVI PANGESTU (b.1992, Indonesia) is a painter who investigates rebellion and control within the parameter of convention. Evi started her formal training in painting in 2011 at the Indonesian Institute of the Arts Yogyakarta then continued to finish her degree in Birmingham School of Art, UK. In 2019, she obtained an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London. Evi is currently based in Oakland and Jakarta.
PORTRAYAL: LOVE & HATE (acrylic, spray paint, steel marker, silver leaf, canvas | 120 x 120 cm | 2022)
INTEGRATING his signature style of explosive color tone and mood, Fivust has developed a distinct style that carries a fun element of surprise everywhere. Whether on the streets, in galleries, and more.
Fivust admires a human alter ego’s spectrum of possibility and flexibility in creating his works. For him, it is fascinating that each has its own alter ego that can be expressed in many ways. Moreover, it develops into something that has grown with them from time to time.
Colliding his style with the subject, Fivust puts up a new way of its interpretation. Through his playful choice, his works will inflict childlike nostalgia and memories amongst the viewers. Fivust pays homage to the usual, boring, and mundane routine by giving it some spice, fun, and playfulness. Giving it life as it should have. Using various colors, shapes, lines, and crazy ideas in developing his characters and style - on many media and with multiple tools - Fivust works with unstoppable liveliness.
EDITION 3, 4, 5 OF 10
EDITION 1, 2 OF 10
HENDRA ‘HEHE’ HARSONO is an Indonesian artist based in Yogyakarta. He is a part of the early 2000s generation artists of the Indonesian Institute of the Arts, born mostly in the early 1980s. This group of artists was brought up being exposed to diverse subcultures, growing up within the paradoxes of Western multiculturalism and changing values in their own countries such as MTV invasion, cable TV, internet, and neoliberalism. Thus, the traces of influences of Pop Culture, the Indie Movement, graphic novels, lowbrow art, pop surrealism, street style fashion, and more can be evident in HeHe’s works.
HeHe has always been interested in working with paintings, drawings, resin toys, and premises-based on his experiences in everyday life and contemporary culture issues. He maintains his signature childlike, surreal characters. His works contain some personification, in which he portrays inanimate objects in a way that seems alive such as giving them their characters and personalities. They convey the concept that the land of the imaginary could not be said as entirely unreal or completely fantastical. It is apparent within us. His artworks embrace friendliness and fun, a kind of acceptance and openness of new possibilities and potentials. While, at the same time, he is still fully aware of its ironies and distance. Moving on with his existence in the real world, he believes that exploring life’s absurdities and abnormalities can enhance his life experience, creating it more colorful.
IABADIOU PIKO is an artist based on Yogyakarta. Through his abstract expression, Piko analyzes and outlines perceptual experiences. With patterns of intuition and free association, he marks psychological and philosophical behavior that alters one’s feelings and character. His process of experimentation allowed him to better understand the concepts of time, circumstance, and space. Piko’s works mainly revolve around both material and color exploration. Releasing his inner child is a part of Piko’s artistic process; freedom, flow, and spontaneity when scribbling, piling, blocking, and mixing different materials. He observes his works just like when he introspects himself. He repeats this process until he feels satisfied with his work.
Piko’s works are spontaneous-with no prior planning. There is an element of surprise that comes with this working process. As he refines his work, he creates markings based on fragments of reality, memories, imagination, atmosphere, and familiar settings as a method of synthesizing ideas, feelings, distortion, and projection from the soul. Pico’s works are a visual journey that investigates the momentum of aesthetic nature and mentality with human relationships and their society. He explores complex emotions such as tension, fear, fragility, loneliness, anger, happiness, sadness, wildness, mysteriousness, destruction, badness, addiction, and silent death.
Beary Cuan is a grumpy but cuddly creature known for his lucky streak. He has a soft, fluffy appearance and is seen as a symbol of fortune and prosperity. People believe being near him brings good luck. Beary is often shown holding symbols of wealth and success like diamonds, money gun, whiskey, cigars, limited-edition watches, and his trademark Jordan sneakers. Despite his grumpiness, Beary brings joy and positivity wherever he goes, reminding people to embrace their own luck and spread good vibes.
BEARY CUAN - HEALTH (9 edition, 69 x 69 cm, chromadepth 3d effects with augmented reality effect on arena smooth natural paper 300 gr, 2023)
BEARY CUAN - FORTUNE (9 edition, 69 x 69 cm, chromadepth 3d effects with augmented reality effect on arena smooth natural paper 300 gr, 2023)
MOCHTAR SARMAN received his Industrial Design degree from Pasadena Art Center College of Design and worked in Disney for more than 21 years. His trademark industrial strokes and the selection of animated and popular icons as a subject of his work derives from his professional design background. His use of bold colors, simple message, and often playful composition invite us to celebrate our childhood fantasy and pleasant memories.
Mochtar is recognized as an artist who breaks the mold of traditional art techniques, transcending to more futuristic approaches in art. He is known to be the first artist in Indonesia to apply the Chomadepth method in his paintings, which evokes an element of surprise to his works. Mochtar’s works are not limited to 2D surfaces but also on 3D objects such as sculptures, packaging boxes, sneakers, and mobile phones. He also experiments and applies Augmented Reality technology on some of his paintings, which again, made him the first artist in Indonesia to explore such technology. He combines his futuristic style with the depth of space and the motion in his works.
RANGGA APUTRA (b. 1995, Yogyakarta, Indonesia). He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Indonesian Institute of the Arts Yogyakarta in 2021. Rangga’s artworks are exploring its various media media as means of expression, including sketches, paintings, reliefs, sculptures, and installations. For Rangga, these various media have their own strengths that can represent his ideas. Rangga using texture strokes as a representation of the time he scratch to return to his personal memory. He captured a wide variety the everyday human activities with this paintings to represent absurdities in life, and some use of poetic language in translating his work so that his artwork can have a much deep artistic meaning.
Rangga actively participates in various exhibitions, both inside and outside the country, joint the group exhibition and solo exhibition. His recent solo exhibition in 2021 in Swiss and Yogyakarta, and some of his exhibitions that took place in Italy.
SONI IRAWAN (b. 1975, Yogyakarta, Indonesia) As an artist with a formal art education and as a musician, (he was one of the founders of Yogyakarta experimental band Seek Six Sick), Soni Irawan has different approach to create his artworks. His art is greatly influenced by the spirit and energy of rock music, but also his printmaking background, especially in the creation of woodcut prints. His paintings on canvas or wood pieces are filled with spontaneous brush strokes and have sketchy street-art appearance. The subject matters are however largely personal, revolve around his family, his social environment and an effort to capture the spirit of human survival in everyday life.
TUYULOVEME (b. 1990, Indonesia) is an Indonesian artist who began his artistic practice on the streets of Yogyakarta creating work in between the art and graffiti aesthetic. Although not a native of Yogyakarta, he has been a resident for couple of years as a base for him to do creative work while working with his national and international network. Tuyuloveme has been painting his unique style religiously on the streets for over ten years. He started developing his own character, the TUYUL, in 2009. It represents an alter-ego, a self-portrait of sorts, popping up on walls and street corners in different places. His visual style is often depicted as organized, expressive and chaotic at the same time; it is almost like a mirror to his personality in real life. You may find this artistic works in the walls or corner of streets in major cities all over Indonesia, Asia, Europe, Australia and US. His career has been nourished and influenced by extensive travels and an ability to work and collaborate with other artists. Tuyuloveme has been featured in national and international events with a number of solo exhibitions.
