Pameran ini mengajak para perupa Indonesia untuk secara khusus membaca kembali secara kritis dan mengeksplorasi secara visual gagasan-gagasan Driyarkara dalam bidang kemanusiaan, pendidikan, dan kebangsaan. Di tengah serbuan gagasan-gagasan “asing”, kami menganggap penggalian pikiran-pikiran Indonesia merupakan sebuah upaya yang layak diperjuangkan dalam seni rupa kontemporer Indonesia. Dengan demikian, membaca kembali Driyarkara bisa dilihat sebagai sebuah upaya untuk melihat ke dalam diri sendiri, ke dalam gagasan-gagasan yang dimiliki oleh bangsa ini secara kritis, dan menempatkannya dalam segala perubahan kekinian. Read More...

REFRESH is an attempt to rejuvenate the atmosphere of Indonesian fine arts by presenting a number of artists who—by means of their works—have potentialities to throw us all out of the whirling vicious circle. REFRESH is more a way of thinking than a subject of exhibition. It is not exhibition of paintings, sculptures of objects, graphic prints, photos, installations or combination of these already mentioned. REFRESH is fine arts exhibition. It is also an acknowledgement of the existing vitality that drives ceaselessly Indonesian fine arts from the inside and capable of renewing itself all the time. REFRESH is not an anti-market statement but request for broadening, reviving and enriching the market—the place where various tastes, ideas and works may be displayed, appreciated and exchanged openly. Read More...

Subverting Power and Desire: Essays on Titarubi’s 'Surrounding David' | Editor: Antariksa | Publisher: Indonesia Contemporary Art Network, 2008 | Bilingual: English - Bahasa Indonesia | Hardcover, 124 pages + DVD | ISBN: 979323946-8 | US$ 20
Essays in this book are critical readings of Titarubi’s “Surrounding David”. They connect this artwork with women issues, repression, sexuality, beauty, power, and desire. The book is also supplemented with a documentary and photos from the making process of “Surrounding David”. Read More...

Certainly, no matter in Bandung, Yogyakarta, or other locations −Indonesian contemporary visual arts will be keeping up refreshed. The socio-political and cultural subjects in Indonesia are still confronting with many problems −the weakness in governmental affairs, corruption, deprived law-enforcement, and re-definition processes on national identities in the most complex multi-ethnic-and-multi-culture country in South-East Asia region− will endlessly materialize new strained social situations. Meanwhile, the practices of visual arts may get entrapped in such establishment as the worst result of commodification visual arts works in the markets conquered by art dealers as well as auction houses these days. However, in conjuction with this matter −as proven in the last three decades in the passages and development of Indonesian contemporary visual arts− the creativity of young artists and innovative values will build up manifested in large numbers of types and youth sub-culture groups gradually come into surface as a contestacy toward existing establishment and impasse. Read More...

iCAN co-organized exhibition | 19 Apr-5 May 2008 | Soka Art Center, Taipei | Curator: Enin Suprianto | Duet exhibition: Agus Suwage and Handiwirman Saputra | See the Artworks...

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