Kadek Marta Dwipayana

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Basically, Balinese childhood tends to be familiar with activities related to art and culture, ranging from those related to religious rituals, traditional games, making crafts, etc. On the other hand, in the world of education, starting from kindergarten to junior high school, art subjects such as drawing have been introduced. I myself felt interested in drawing activities starting at the age of 14/15 years. So a few years later I decided to get an art education at the SMK level or what was then known as SMSR and continued to the ISI Yogyakarta college.

During my studies, I was very interested in exploring art mediums and adjusting techniques to open up other possibilities that were not yet known, and perhaps could be utilized well artistically. In practice, there is a tendency that often occurs, consciously or unconsciously, to combine things that feel different into a harmonious whole. As in the paintings, I present abstract elements/shapes combined with plastic forms of human body parts. And the 3D works that I have done are an effort to change the image of the basic painting material whose surface is flat into a 3 dimensional form; by combining 2 flat patterns with different shapes into one unit. For me, the works that have been done are like seeing myself in various situations such as dilemmas, efforts to fight, helplessness, peaceful hopes for a feud / conflict, freedom, to the shadows of solutions to improve. If you look back when you decided to pursue art, especially Painting, it might be influenced by the feeling of comfort to freely express various things that are sometimes difficult to express vulgarly.