FIGHTING COCKS WILL PRESENT 'LIVE IN HARMONY'

Warta Bali, Tuesday, September 11, 2012. Page 10

Nurul ’Acil’ Hayat:
Lost in Harmony, Acrylic on canvas, 70 x 40 cm, 2012

Six artist from Fighting Cocks Group Yogyakarta will hold an exhibition titled 'Live in Harmony' in Warung Yayaa Artspace, Jl. Sekar Waru No. 4, Banjar Belanjong, Sanur, on 16-28 September 16-28, 2012. They are Zam Kamil, Moch Basori, Nurul ‘Acil’ Hayat, Dedy Sufriadi, Rocka Radipa, and Jitka Kampak. They will present about two dimension paintings. 'Live in Harmony' advanced contemporary works in expressionist, impressionist, abstract, even etsa (etching).

BALI: THE ARTISTS were graduated from Indonesia Art Institute of Yogyakarta (ISI), and Prague Academy Fine Arts (AVU), Czech Republic, had been known as unique multidiscipline artists. Beside painting as major ability, they also could made three dimensions works (sculpture or installation) with a lot of media such as newsprint, wooden, textile, metal, glass, rock, bones, brass, etc.

Dedy Sufriadi: To be a King,
Acrylic on canvas,
50 x 50 cm, 2010

Live in Harmony was trully reveal the modern human interelation that nowadays had been distanced with its nature in the cosmologist prespective. The ‘harmony’ concept sensed as human interelation with nature (cosmos), which are macro cosmos (the universe), and micro cosmos (human being). For eastern, the harmony word is the key to understand the relation between human and nature, as known that in human soul there is a miniature of nature which running harmoniously with the life shymphony.

Bertrand Russel thought every person were involved with three basic conflicts, which are against the nature, against the other, and in the end against himself, then this three conflicts indentically known as natural, social, and pschycology problem. The soul that fully contained with worries, lust, an hate are the out of tunes in universal symphony. The unbalanced and unharmonized brought us suffers and disaster; diseases, handicaps, wars, sexual deviation, divortion, disobeyed law, suicide, etc.

Zam Kamil:
Love, Mystery of Beauty,
Oil on canvas, 60 x 50 cm, 2012

Rocka Radipa: Life,
Brass etching mixed media, 30 x 37 cm, 2012

The artist sensed those harmony thought accorded to their own point of views. Nurul ‘Acil’ Hayat forefronted the pschycological problems theme with drawed the nature ambienice of individual pschycology that tired to reach the harmony through the therapy ways (remediation of health problem) with doing the activities repeatly. Dedy Sufriadi forefronted the individual pschycology zone that lost with his own hopes and dreams. But Zam Kamil believed with the other subject as balancer, which is life partner. The paired life is a nature law conducted each kind of life, for the life being or the unlife being.

Jitka Kampak: Poison #1 (toxic series),
Soft pastel on paper, 55 x 75 cm, 2012

Moch Basori: Acrobat,
Oil on canvas, 100 x 120 cm, 2002

This paired life had been seen even from the gen contained every sketch and life design for every life being. The same point of view were also believed by Jitka Kampak that practically often made paired paintings. In the toxic series, he wanted awaking public’s feeling through the pictures of ugly fruits.

Rocka Radipa through his etsa works reveal the harmony in literary way. The shoot of apread tree is the sign of probabilities and life power. So that power would give the human body chances (micro cosmos) to do acrobat as Basori meaned in his works. (*/sur)