All interested art aficionados should hurry to Singapore’s Mizuma Art Gallery as soon as possible, as a fantastic group showing of contemporary and important Indonesian artists will only be on display until Dec. 23. The masterpieces on display are visceral explorations of visual emotion, and are not to be missed.
One of the art pieces that will be on display at the exhibition is a large square canvas featuring long streaks of acrylic paint. The background of the piece is a midnight blue, reminiscent of the sky after dark, and the streaks themselves are light blue, black, red, and yellow. The title of the painting, “City Lights,” leaves the viewer to wonder just how, exactly, they are seeing these lights. Are they zooming by in a car or plane, the lights from the city streaking by? Are they descending a skyscraper in a glass elevator, the lights of surrounding high rises blurring? Or are the streaks in the painting perhaps reminiscent of traffic passing by on busy roads, headlights and taillights making patterns in the night?
Other intricate works are shapes created by acrylic paint and needles pressed into the canvas. The artist on these pieces has taken much time to painstakingly render abstract shapes by creating pointillism with literal points — the heads of thousands of tiny pins. Each one has been individually pressed in to the canvas with varying frequency. At the edges of the shapes, the pins are denser, creating a darker area of shading. In the middle, though, the pens are sparse, creating an illusion of light within the shape. The end result is a highly texturized rendering of positive and negative space with a simple but engaging medium.
Another large painting on display looks obsessive and intense, reds and magentas in acrylic to create a highly textured landscape. What appears to be maps or crossings or intersecting lines of some kind create a unique topography in this painting, which curves across the rectangular canvas but doesn’t quite reach the edges in some places. The effect looks almost like a collage artwork, though the piece is painted entirely in acrylic.
One of the oil paintings of the show is a celebration of the artist’s — or someone’s — accomplishments. A lush spray of greenery spirals upward in the center of the canvas, cutting through an ivory background. Many shades of greens, as well as different shapes and textures, make this dense greenery come to life. Vines spiral outward, as leaves back them up, and the viewer is left dazzled and wondering just what was being celebrated.
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To read more details about the exhibit, including seeing a selection of pieces on display, go to http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/1785103/last-chance-how-it-feels-at-mizuma-art-gallery-singapore.