'The Man from Bantul The Monster'
200 x 150cm, oil on canvas, by I Nyoman Masriadi
(Auction in Sotheby's Hong Kong 6 Oct 2009, estimate: HK$600.000 - 900.000)
Super skinny girls, like Raquel Zimmerman and Chanel Iman, are the superstars in fashion business. They are the symbol of beauty, glamour, prosperous fantasy, and sensuality. In the other hand, all those symbols they have in the fast fashion glamourama stand on the opposite site of art world favorite figure. Blown-up human is a top figure here. It brings us to the stage of blissful dilemma, between prosperity and obesity, beauty and heavy, serious and joke, sensitivity and indifference. You know what I mean?
What is crossing our mind when we see 'Mona Lisa Age Twelve' or every artwork of Fernando Botero? It knocks our ideal human figure standard down, it fools our everyday judgement about beauty and curve, then we start to rethink which one good and accepted by people. Beside Botero, people demand on blown-up human creates and lift some new artist up above the surface. I know two of them, I Nyoman Masriadi (from Yogyakarta, Java), and Richard Winkler (based in Bali).
'Mona Lisa Age 12'
211 x 195.5cm, oil and tempera on canvas, by Fernando Botero
'Harvest on the Plantation'
200 x 150cm, oil on canvas, by Richard Winkler
ZOLA ZOLU GALLERY
www.zolazolugallery.com
No comments:
Post a Comment