curated by Agung Hujatnikajennong
Friday, 27 January 2012, 7 PM
Accompanied by a musical performance by Agus Suwage and Friends
at Amphiteater – Selasar Sunaryo Art Space
Artist talk / discussion: Sunday, 29 January 2012, 3 PM
at Bale Handap – Selasar Sunaryo Art Space
Yudi Yudoyoko (born in Jakarta, 1963) is an Indonesian artist who has lived and worked between Montevideo, Uruguay, and Buenos Aires, Argentina, since 2003. Known for his performance, installation and drawing, he was one of the artists who actively involved with experimental art practices in Bandung in the early 1990s. For two decades, Yudoyoko’s practice has been in constant evolutionoften marked by radical changes, ruptures and leapsthat accompanied his life journey, artistic experimentation and rejection towards the establishment.
This exhibition is divided into two parts. The first section shows Yudoyoko’s recent series of digital prints and murals, entitled “I am the Earth”, which wer done during his stay in Latin America. These works reflect the artist’s cosmological views about human life as inseparable part of the nature: flora, fauna, soil and all the earth’s dwellers. While the second part is an effort to revisit Yudoyoko’s works that were done in the 1990s. Consisting of installations, objects, drawings and collages, this section displays “A Man and an Egg” (1993), “Original Sin” (1995) and “Raja Congcot” (1995 – present). These three series of work reflect the artist’s comments, sarcasm, criticism and existential statements on his surrounding community and civilization.
This exhibition does not constitute a retrospective presentation of Yudoyoko’s artistic journey as a whole, rather only displays a few important episodes in his career. In a glimpse, Yudi Yudoyoko’s artistic journey indeed tend to be non-linear. But precisely through it, we can learn a lot about the nature of his creative process. Yudoyoko’s artistic temperament cannot be simplified through identification of personal styles or medium. He is an artist who has made his artistic experimentation a way of life, and upheld the definition of art as a totality of life itself.
(Agung Hujatnikajennong)
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