Images of Eyes Gallery I
Artwork by Diyanto, Rahmat Jabaril,
Irawan Karseno, Odji Lirungan,
Yoes Rizal, and Umar Sumatra
Indonesia

An exhibit of contemporary Indonesian art

Artwork by Diyanto

Diyanto was born in Kadipaten, West Java, on February 23 1962.  He studied at IKIP (Bandung Teacher's College) and the Bandung Institute of Technology, where he finished his studies in the Faculty of Art and Design in 1990.

In 1987 he received the Arasmus Huis/ITB Award and attended the 5th ASEAN Exhibition and Workshop for Young Painters, Nan Yang Academy and National Museum, Singapore (conducted by Master Painter Tang Da Wu).  In the same year he took an acting course at the Studiklub Teater Bandung (STB) and was the artistic director for various performances in Bandung and Jakarta. 1988-89: "Sumber Waras" for experimental performing arts.  From 1989 to 1992 he was an assistant lecturer at the Faculty of Art and Design, ITB. In 1992, he participated in a design workshop with Wolf Wanninger at the City Theatre, Augsburg, Germany, which was sponsored by the Bandung Goethe Institute. He participated in the Alternative Arts Festival in Switzerland with Teater SAE in 1993. Since 1995 Diyanto has been a lecturer at the Academy of Art (STISI) in Bandung.

"Growing up Between an Iron and a Chair" by Diyanto
Image Copyright © by Diyanto
Acrylic on canvas, 120x120 cm

Artwork by Rahmat Jabaril

Rahmat Jabarilis is 32 years old, a Bandung artist/activist with little formal training as an artist.  He studied for about 3 months with Ida Bagus Made in Bali, and has been especially influenced by the works of Hendra Gunawan, Marc Chagall, and Jean-Michel Basquiat. At the age of 15, he became an activist for the poor and politically oppressed.  This found its apex during the Jakarta and Bandung street demonstrations of 1997-1999.  He is also locally involved in discussions and programs aimed at improving the conditions of his neighbors, low-paid workers in a nearby rattan factory.  His involvement as a political activist is apparent in many of his works.

Aku Menggugat (I Accuse) by Rahmat Jabaril
Image Copyright © by Rahmat Jabaril
Oil on canvas & mixed media 178x150 cm

Artwork by Irawan Karseno

Irawan Karseno, born in 1960, is a Jakarta artist who graduated from ITB's department of Art & Design in 1986. He has exhibited home and abroad. Today he is not only a prolific painter but also is also very active as a consultant for corporate interior design.  His works have been exhibited in Indonesia and Malaysia.

Picasso and Raja Bego by Irawan Karseno
(Picasso and Stupid King)
Image Copyright © by Irawan Karseno
Acrylic on canvas, 145x145 cm

Artwork by Odji Lirungan

Born in Jakarta on August 8, 1957, Odji was graduated from the Indonesia Art Institute of Yogyakarta in 1986. He now lives and works in Indonesia and in Paris.  This image is one of three pen and ink works exhibited in "Bullshit - Omong Kosong", Odji's solo exhibition at Galeri Milennium, Jakarta, Sep 15 to Oct 6, 1999.  His works have been exhibited in Indonesia and Paris.

Baku Suap (Mutual Bribing) by Odji Lirungan
["Suap" has the double meaning of "feeding" and "bribe"]
Pen and ink on paper, 52x52 cm
Image Copyright © by Odji Lirungan

Artwork by Yoes Rizal

Yoes belongs to a generation of young wild artists graduating from Indonesia's most prestigious university, Institute Teknologie Bandung (ITB).  Born in 1956, he grew up in Jakarta after his family migrated to the 13-million strong metropolis from Sumatra.

Yoes has a broad range of themes: Jakarta street scenes and crowded markets, traditional dance motifs, village life, and above all women.  Yoes discovers women bathing, stretched across beds, amongst the rice paddies and under banana trees, waiting somewhere, lying in ones and twos on a deserted beach, and in portraits.  The sense of beauty discovered, of loneliness, yearning and self-indulgence strikes the viewer with broad splashes of color and essential experience.

Yoes is not only a color-rich painter, he is also an accomplished graphic artist.  To supplement his income, he has worked as a graphic designer for an international cosmetic and pharmacological company in Jakarta, as a graphic artist for The Jakarta Post (Indonesian's largest English-language newspaper), illustrator for the inter-cultural Bandung Banana Review, illustrator for David Alexander's children's book The Wide-mouthed Gecko, and graphic arts consultant for a World Bank project in central Java.

His works have been exhibited in Indonesia, Paris, and Turkey.

"No Story 1" by Yoes Rizal
Image Copyright © by Yoes Rizal
Oil on canvas, 90x100cm

Artwork by Umar Sumatra

In the small West Java town of Sumedang, not far from Bandung, Umar first saw the light of day in 1948. He was raised and brought up in a village outside of Sumedang. Life in the village, where Islamic belief is underlain with even older animist traditions, has had a lasting impact on Umar's artistic life.

Umar has chiefly devoted himself to motifs deriving from Sundanese traditions in West Java. The tradition is rich in spirits, ghosts, ceremony, magic, as well as daily village life. One of his favorite motifs is horses and their role in certain local ceremonies. He ranges in style from surreal dream sequences to cubist to a unique discipline of stylized painterly detail. 

Umar finished his university training in 1994 at IKIP, Bandung, after beginning his studies years before.

At twenty, Umar left the village to live in Bandung, the West Java provincial capital of 3 million. A prolific painter, he began exhibiting his paintings when he was 21-years-old and hasn't stopped to look back since.

Devoted exclusively to painting, Umar now lives and works in Bandung. His newly built atelier is full of light, works in progress, and the stories behind the paintings. His works have been exhibited in Indonesia, Switzerland, United States, Netherlands, Bali, Malaysia, and Japan.

"Debus" by Umar Sumatra
Image Copyright © by Umar Sumatra
Mixed media & oil on board, 30x24cm

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Originally published Dec 10, 2000, courtesy of JavaFred Art.  Republished Apr 12, 2008, with minor edits.  A history of JavaFred can be read at http://www.javafred.net/toc_about_jfred.htm.

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