ISBN: 9789810813833
Paper back: 114 pages
Singapore Art Museum
Oct 2008
Price: S$60.00 |
Masriadi:
Black is My Last Weapon
Masriadi: Black is My Last Weapon, desires to evoke and present a
striking portrait of Masriadi through the displayed works and the
exhibition design. Out of the more than hundred paintings that Masriadi
has produced in approximately ten years of working as a painter, the
curators have assembled more than 30 works in four thematic sections:
Hitam Adalah Senjata Terakhir Aku (Black Is My Last Weapon), which
traces the evolution of what has become the artist's signature black-skinned
figures. These figures inhabit different identities and personalities
in each of his canvases; they date as far back as the beginning of
his career as a painter in 1998 to some of the paintings completed
in the last two years with an illusionistic emphasis on figurative
mass; Geli-Geli (Ticklish), which makes reference to the elements
of humour and the comical in Masriadi's paintings; Saya Yang Dapat!
(I Got It!), which focuses upon Masriadi's interest in conditions
and situations in everyday life where power relations are played out
and Memperjuangkan Lukisan (Fighting to Paint), which gathers a number
of works that reveals Masriadi's thoughts and opinions on being an
artist whose career is inevitably bound to painting, critics, collectors,
and writers. This catalogue includes an essay by noted curator and
writer Dwi Marianto. |
