Winter Show 2024

Artists
Rangga Aputra, Kurumi Ono, I Wayan Piki Suyersa

Date
12 – 25 December 2024

Time
Mon. to Fri. 11 am – 6 pm

Venue
Gallery Hayashi

GALLERY HAYASHI + ART BRIDGE is pleased to present Winter Show 2024, a group exhibition by Indonesian artists, Rangga Aputra and I Wayan Piki Suyersa and Japanese artist, Kurumi Ono. The exhibition will open 12 December and continue through 25 December 2024.

Aritsts Profile

Rangga Aputra
Rangga Aputra, whose pure joy is painting, has been creating artworks since his childhood and currently exhibits his works mainly in Asia and Europe. He has been strongly influenced by the leading contemporary artists of the 20th century such as Georges Mathieu, Jean Dubuffet, Antoni Tàpies, Anselm Kiefer, George Baselitz, Zao Wouki, and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Rangga also likes to explore new medium such as oil, acrylic, asphalt, car paint, and spray paint.

Rangga Aputra, Fragrance of red, 2023
Oil on canvas, W1400 × H1000mm

Kurumi Ono
Kurumi Ono is an artist based in Tokyo and Tochigi, Japan. She has graduated from BA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London in 2019. ‘Everything flows’ (Old Greek“Panta Rhei” ).
As the philosopher Heraclitus said, it seems to me that everything in this world is constantly changing.

All living things will eventually return to soil, and everything that has form will crumble and disappear. However, humanity has always had the desire to resist this transmutation, to keep something forever. I started working with the interest in such flux and the human thirst for preservation.

I am attempting to visualise the relationship between change and preservation by burying photographs that are created by pressing the shutter button to hold the moment of an event in the soil, which is in constant flux.
The photographs are decomposed and reshaped by absorbing moisture and moving micro- organisms in the soil. Photographs, that are supposed to capture a scene of the changing world, are transformed on paper.

Burying photographs in the soil looks like the opposite act of yearning for preservation. However, vulnerability and fragility, that humanity has strongly wished to preserve, emerge.

Through my work, I would like to demonstrate how we should respond to the ever-changing organisms and materials.

Kurumi Ono, Fleeting 1,  2021
Paper, ink, soil, W297 × H210mm

I Wayan Piki Suyersa

I Wayan Piki Suyersa (b. 1996, Bali, Indonesia), graduated from the Indonesian Institute of the Arts Yogyakarta, generally works through the expression of an internal exercise in himself. As a Hindu with a background in Balinese culture, his practice references various traditional activities in Bali, such as the Calonarang dance, of which he is an active participant. The dance results in a special aesthetic moment where the expression of traditions, such as religious masks and fans are played out on stage.

Brush strokes and colours are energetically and unconsciously expressed; control over the composition is given completely to the momentum of the process. Piki accepts whatever the result of the brushwork and colour is when the work reaches completion. The aesthetic moment he seeks to bring to his practice is the experience of life and death, a single accident, that event which spurs passion and contemplation over the reality that man has no power or control over his life, that life and the direction of life are God’s absolutely (Ida Sang Hyang Widhi Wasa). That reflection prompted him to create a method of working underscored by the words, “this time I accepted what I had let go of”. This has become the basis of his practice.

I Wayan Piki Suyersa, Within The Horizon, 2023
Oil, acrylic on raw canvas, W1000 × H1500mm

Installation View