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Lot Essay
This season, Christie's is pleased to present a selection of Indonesian contemporary art that demonstrates different facets of its diversity. Ronald Manullang, Agapetoes Agus Kristiandana and EddiE haRA are three of the earliest contemporary artists to emerge in the Indonesian art scene, and continue today to produce works with a deep sense of social awareness and contemporary relevance to the works of younger emerging artists like Eko Nugroho and Indieguerillas. In between these two generations, one finds a group of artists from the Jendela Group, one of the most influential and significant artist collective in Indonesian art represented here by the work of Rudi Mantofani.
EddiE haRA, born 1957 in Salatiga, Indonesia, is currently living and working in Basel, Switzerland. One of the pioneers of a minimalistic and symbolistic art movement in Indonesia, his works possesses a humorous, naThe Heart Breaker and Some Like It Hot(Lot 219), is seen as a rebellion and a breakout against fixed conventions has made him one of the most influential artist of his era for the post-1975 generation of artists.
Ronald Manullang studied at the Institut Seni Rupa Indonesia in Yogyakarta, and is a founding member of the Gerakan Seni Rupa Baru (Indonesian New Art Movement) established in the 1970s. He addresses his take on issues in politics and societal life appropriating renowned personalities as icons. His ideas are presented in the language of realism, precision, and detail, as seen in the present lot, MM-Mao: Applause (from the Legend to Legend series) (Lot 224) one of the most iconic works from his Legend to Legend series where American screen siren Marilyn Monroe is the appropriated icon for the artist's commentary on the shifting relations of the East and the West in the China and Asia-dominated 21st century.
Eko Nugroho is one of the most exciting young Indonesian contemporary artist with a pop-art influenced style of socio-political commentary in his works. Working across a number of mediums, he is recognized for his work in tapestry which goes to support a cottage industry of weavers and producers working with him. Strange Head from Jakarta(Lot 220) is a satirical work on the urbane denizen of one of the world's largest and busiest capital city, Jakarta, where social ills, corruption, inequality and a poor standard of living continues to plague most inhabitants.
The Yogyakarta-based husband and wife art duo Indieguerillas has risen quickly in the contemporary Indonesian art scene for their genre-defining and graphic-design influenced works reinterpreting traditional folklores. Portable Art Is Good For You VII: (The Birth of) The Cheerful & The Beautiful Pseudo-cool (Lot 221) fuses urban fashion and music, Japanese manga, street art, skateboarding culture, tattoo aesthetics and video games, ?into an elaborate installation commenting on the post-modernist pastiche of visual culture today.
EddiE haRA, born 1957 in Salatiga, Indonesia, is currently living and working in Basel, Switzerland. One of the pioneers of a minimalistic and symbolistic art movement in Indonesia, his works possesses a humorous, naThe Heart Breaker and Some Like It Hot(Lot 219), is seen as a rebellion and a breakout against fixed conventions has made him one of the most influential artist of his era for the post-1975 generation of artists.
Ronald Manullang studied at the Institut Seni Rupa Indonesia in Yogyakarta, and is a founding member of the Gerakan Seni Rupa Baru (Indonesian New Art Movement) established in the 1970s. He addresses his take on issues in politics and societal life appropriating renowned personalities as icons. His ideas are presented in the language of realism, precision, and detail, as seen in the present lot, MM-Mao: Applause (from the Legend to Legend series) (Lot 224) one of the most iconic works from his Legend to Legend series where American screen siren Marilyn Monroe is the appropriated icon for the artist's commentary on the shifting relations of the East and the West in the China and Asia-dominated 21st century.
Eko Nugroho is one of the most exciting young Indonesian contemporary artist with a pop-art influenced style of socio-political commentary in his works. Working across a number of mediums, he is recognized for his work in tapestry which goes to support a cottage industry of weavers and producers working with him. Strange Head from Jakarta(Lot 220) is a satirical work on the urbane denizen of one of the world's largest and busiest capital city, Jakarta, where social ills, corruption, inequality and a poor standard of living continues to plague most inhabitants.
The Yogyakarta-based husband and wife art duo Indieguerillas has risen quickly in the contemporary Indonesian art scene for their genre-defining and graphic-design influenced works reinterpreting traditional folklores. Portable Art Is Good For You VII: (The Birth of) The Cheerful & The Beautiful Pseudo-cool (Lot 221) fuses urban fashion and music, Japanese manga, street art, skateboarding culture, tattoo aesthetics and video games, ?into an elaborate installation commenting on the post-modernist pastiche of visual culture today.