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Solo Exhibition "REBORN"

↘ COVER ↘ CURRATORIAL ↘ OPENING ↘ ART WORKS ↘ INTERVIEW WITH ESQUIRE MAGAZINE ↘ VIDEO ↘ CATALOGUE

THE CURATORIAL
Solo Exhibition REBORN by Bambang Adi Pramono
Curated by Arif Bagus Prasetyo

AFTER THREE DECADE
Bambang Adi Pramono is an artist born in Sidoarjo, East Java, 1955, which has more than twenty years living in Bali. He is a graduate of Institute of The Arts “ISI” Yogyakarta, and he became a lecturer at his alma mater. Work as a lecturer on campus later abandoned, because he was more interested to pursue a professional career as a sculptor, he is also designer and design consultant on various projects.

Bambang Adi Pramono, among others, had for years become a designer, consultant and instructor training programs crafts in various regions in East Indonesia. As a consultant and designer as well, he has been involved in renovation "Indonesia Pavilion, Expo Garden Kunming, China"; and development “Monumen Veteran Pejuang Kemerdekaan RI Sumatera Utara” in Medan, North Sumatra. While as a sculptor, one of his works that stand out is “Monumen I Gusti Ngurah Rai” in the international airport Ngurah Rai Bali.

As proclaimed by its title, Exhibition "Reborn" as marking the reborn of Bambang as creative beings. Imagine, after an absence since 2004, the New Year yesterday sculptures Bambang again appeared in a number of exhibitions together. For the solo exhibition, his absence even longer. First solo exhibition took place in 1981, almost three decades ago. Only now he is a solo exhibition again.

There is no doubt, busy Bambang serve the demand of others over the years made him do not have much opportunity to create works of idealists who simply pursue personal creative vision, so he had to take a sabbatical from the exhibit hall. Working as a designer and sculptor in various project orders, Bambang certainly can not be completely free to create. There is a willingness, interest and qualification standards of other parties who must be obeyed, or at least considered or negotiated. He could not express his own taste and his intention totally and purely creative.

Exhibition "Reborn" explores the works of Bambang's modern sculpture which, of course, created as a pure creative expression. Without the burden of missions and requirements that pegged the other hand, Bambang pursue its own mission as an artist's sculpture of the ruling to determine its own terms. He freely across the skies of imagination to pursue creative inspiration, struggle with concepts and ideals, formulated in a design-build is free from pragmatic agenda; make it happen based on qualification standards established by it, even directly involved in the production process that often involves experimentation.

No wonder, Bambang works in this exhibition which radiates the spirit of exploration driven by the creative energy flowing. Creativity is unstoppable during the last thirty years to find the canals as a creative release, and growth in tree-dimensional rich artistic language of meaning and expression. Bambang wrestled with various ideas and stimulate creative intuition, then carving the wood or forged metal, two major works of sculpture materials.

Most of the production process work was done by hand Bambang own, including sculptures made from metal. Bambang admitted enjoyed a fairly heavy physical labor in the creation of his image, for example, forging metal or metal surface processing, until he was satisfied with the outcome. In the process of this work he was not just built a construct, but also to experiment, tries out the possibilities that arise, discovers unexpected effects that differ between one sculpture and other sculptures. The process would add value to an authentic and exclusive on his works. Bambang reborn as the creator, who creates, moves to realize personal creative and autonomous, at the conceptual level, and practically. Reborn.

Bambang work by using conventional materials : metal and wood. However, conventional materials were working on creatively, precisely to present an unconventional expression. The works date Bambang implies an idealism to reform the popular image of the sculpture, and even further, to redefine the nature of sculpture. A number of sculptures on display seem to challenge common perceptions of what is commonly referred to as a "sculpture". See, for example, tangible piece of t

he sculpture's hand severed in the arm ("Dejected"), winding cylindrical aluminum bar ("Life Begins"), or imitations of a piece of carved part of the framework of traditional Javanese house ("Heritage"). That sculpture does not have to stand or lie down, but can also drift or hanging ("Dragon Mouth", "Hanging Nest"). Bambang impressed seek the presence of a structure, proportion and a new expressive energy. He explored new expressive possibilities that can accommodate creative restlessness as an artist of contemporary sculpture. With artistic sensitivity and strength of its ideas, Bambang expand the notion of "sculpture".

In recent works Bambang, the principles of design stability, which is usually attached to the conventional construction of a monument or sculpture, is often replaced with seeking a new equilibrium is vulnerable. There was something vulnerable that blew from three-dimensional structures are on average smaller perched on a buffer rod. Seeing the sculpture construction "Heritage" or "Dragon Mouth" which seemed to deny the law of gravity, for example, appears the impression that the equilibrium alone holds the sculptures of the breakdown. Another type of vulnerability is demonstrated by the sculpture "Torso". A pair of torso "Siamese twins" a substantial volume of this work hardly together, just like grazed each other. In addition, the "atmosphere prone" sometimes also surfaced thematically, for example in the work of "Kekayon II : Rhythm in Chaos" which echoes the social sensitivity, or the work of "Love Wave" and "The Last Summer" that promote ecological vulnerability.

In constructing the sculpture, Bambang did not hesitate to deal with empty space as an element that is as important as volume. Space around to penetrate or penetrate solid mass, become an integral part of the overall construction of a sculpture. Cavity or the gap is not just an empty area, but also "a form of" a just as valid as a form of sculpture itself. Spatial exploration with the principle of "sculpture through space and space through sculpture" seems clearly practiced in the works that played a cavity such as "The Muscle", "Dragon Heart" and "Reach It". In these works, there is practically no longer a clear boundary between sculpture and the empty space around the sculpture.

One of the appealing Bambang sculptures located in the dynamic tension between formal elements and discursive elements, aspects of the stylistic and thematic aspects, form and message. Here the idea is very important role, both in the realm of visual ideas and in the realm of discourse. Almost all works Bambang particular theme that was unearthed from the observations and thoughts about sharing the natural and cultural phenomenon. In the creative intention Bambang, wood or metal hardly ever stopped a vehicle limited to pure expression, means a mere manifestation of the beauty ideal. Almost always there is a "narrative" behind the forms of artistic creation tridimensional Bambang. However, the "narrative" is not always transparent, sometimes even illegible visually, due to strong interruption formal artistic considerations.

Take for example the work of "Reach It" and "Life Begins". Without reading the title, viewers will most likely be difficult to catch messages to be conveyed Bambang life in the second sculpture, and may only interpret as other forms of experimental abstract sculpture. Another example, on the work of "The Muscle", "narrative" that the sculpture was inspired by the muscle fibers (an original idea!) Become less meaningful than the artistic effects that arise from the strains of the visual rhythm of the surface and formal logic. While the work of "Torso", the image of the human body as if melting in the sensations of motion of the resonance between the wood surface waves and ripples of wood texture. Human-shaped sculpture is clearly not raised the issue of humanity.

In the works of Bambang, the idea in the realm of visual looks tends to be more dominant than the ideas in the domain of discourse. But that does not mean Bambang lack of attention to issues beyond the question form. A number of his works featuring the mimetic nature (e.g. sculpture shaped plant, tree or bird nests) revealed a strong ecological message. Social sensitivity about the times that are increasingly familiar with the violence and chaos expressed symbolically and dramatically in the works "Kekayon II: Rhythm in Chaos"; while the work of "Heritage" voiced concern about the threat of extinction of traditional cultural heritage. Criticism of sexuality in contemporary times, when sex has been dispelled from the sacred space and can be enjoyed with lightly tub dessert, delivered in a tone of humor in the work of "Dessert". The power of ideas in the realm of visual Bambang provide fresh perspectives and unique emphasis on the ideas in the domain of discourse.

In this exhibition, the most interesting demonstration of the strength alloy visual ideas and discourses present in serial dragon sculpture. Departing from fascination to China during a visit there several years ago, Bambang explore the figure of a dragon that symbolizes the spirit of community cultural Bamboo Curtain country that is able to rise as a great nation on earth. But his unique, Bambang did not create the dragon sculpture with reference to the general picture of this mythical creature, but to process the elements characteristic of the dragon (fly, jagged, fanged or clawed etc.) to transform the image of dragon so new and original. Liver or heart shape dragon ("Dragon Heart"), the mouth of the dragon ("Dragon Mouth") or penis dragon ("Dragon Penishhh ..."), most likely never imagined by anyone before it is born by the creative imagination Bambang. The sculptures "dragon" by Bambang mix of memory and fantasy, ancient mythological wed model and advanced engineering model (and even futuristic like the work of "Dragon's Mouth"), combines spirituality and materiality. Looking ahead, dragon sculpture’s serial still very promising to be developed further. (translated by Bambang Adi Pramono)

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