Planes | Spheres
Dec 15, 2020 - Jan 15, 2021
Bunga Yuridespita (1989) and Nunung WS (1948) are probably two of the few contemporary Indonesian painters whose body of works appears utopian. If I were to briefly describe their practice, Bunga and Nunung have a distinctive way of representing the three-dimensional sensation. Not only are their abstract paintings an effort to break away from the dichotomy of representation and non-representation, but it also offers us a spatial experience. (Read more CURATORIAL)
“Bunga's paintings are in the form of blocks of color, reminiscent of the blocks used to indicate houses, fields, and other legends on Google Maps. Her body of work results from her perception of the spatiotemporal experience of the spaces around her. She is like an amateur cartographer trying to translate the spaces she experienced through the visual form of abstract painting. Bunga's paintings represent the aspirations of humans living in the era of advanced information and technology to prove how spatial experiences are personal and physical.”
Chabib Duta Hapsoro
“Nunung WS's abstract painting practice is the epitome of Indonesian abstract painting in the 1970s. Her paintings offer a lyrical experience for the audience. We get to feel the warmth of her abstraction through luminous, translucent colors that reveal the layers of space that illusively goes beyond the two-dimensional plane of the canvas. Nunung wanted to present the inner spaces through her paintings through her countless experimentation on materials and colors. ”
Chabib Duta Hapsoro
Bunga Yuridespita
“Bunga's paintings are in the form of blocks of color, reminiscent of the blocks used to indicate houses, fields, and other legends on Google Maps. Her body of work results from her perception of the spatiotemporal experience of the spaces around her.“
Chabib Duta Hapsoro
Bunga Yuridespita is an artist based in Bandung. Through space, time, and memory, she juxtaposes her practice with an exploration of her life imprints that built her identity as an individual. She graduated from Pelita Harapan University majoring in Architecture, then continued her master’s degree in Bandung Institute of Technology, where she majors in Fine […]
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Nunung W.S.
“Nunung WS's abstract painting practice is the epitome of Indonesian abstract painting in the 1970s. Her paintings offer a lyrical experience for the audience. We get to feel the warmth of her abstraction through luminous, translucent colors that reveal the layers of space that illusively goes beyond the two-dimensional plane of the canvas.“
Chabib Duta Hapsoro
Nunung W.S. is an abstract artist with a career spanning over half a century. Despite receiving family pressure to study religion, her passion for the arts appeared at an early stage. In particular, she was inspired by Kartika Affandi, the artist daughter of Kusuma Affandi, who served as a role model that women too could […]
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