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new column

I was chosen for the 2nd edition of Taide & Design Magazine - artist in residence column.
Taide & Design is a new Finnish magazine that focuses on a broad spectrum of International creation around Art and Design, covering in-depth the phenomena, events, places and works as well as people behind them.

Taide & Design is published eight times a year and the language of the printed edition is Finnish with English summary. The first edition came out in May.

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carpentry 101

Carpentry skill is gained through experience study, and its really hard to be a carpenter. made this stool from scrap woods, and all i got is this unsteady piece of furniture. finally the manual book got its function as a supporter.

this work was made for an exhibition"everybody got mixed feelings about the function and the form" held in Goethe-Institut Library, Jakarta,Indonesia. I got the idea when I'm visiting the Goethe library, which was a really well-design place, very clean, efficient and functional like most of other Germany design. I cant helped myself to give something "wise" to this well-design place. I made this Indonesian domestic stool style (scrap-reclaimed woods with raw paint finish) and put it between two cultures-section bookshelves.

* the new generation mixes different aesthetic patterns, norms, principles, idioms, and media, which are perceived ambiguously by the audience. the difference between arts and design seems not to be discussed anymore. Little by little, we start to accept this instability between function and norm, function and form, between intuition and construction, free expression and specific message. contemporary art works invite us to something foreign. but the compositions touch the string of our daily problems.

*taken from curatorial pages of everybody got mixed feelings about the function and the form exhibition

curated by Aminuddin TH Siregar
first exhibited at everybody got mixed feelings about the function and the form
Goethe Institut, Jakarta, Indonesia

Genuine no.1

Genuine no.1
- genuine wood box, fake gold ring -

laser-engraved oak wood box & fake gold ring
6.5 x 6.5 x 6.5
2009

* We’re All Millionaires is a group show of contemporary artworks that are to be sold for 1 Million Rupiah. The exhibition concept aims to poke fun at the cultural misconceptions of the term “millionaire”, and address the oddities of art economics and ownership status.
This will be the first collaboration between C&C Projects and A.O.D. The goal of "We’re All Millionaires" is to find and present artists who are pushing new ideas and new ways of seeing. C&C+A.O.D. is dedicated to providing these artists and their audience with an alternative to the high-end gallery system.

* taken from we're all milionaires exhibition curatorial page, written by C&C projects

curated by C&C Projects for A.O.D Art Space
first exhibited at We're All Millionaires exhibition - Jakarta
a collection of Mr. Nic Schaefer
sevenohseven

such a height

* R Yuki also works with the medium of drawing, in which he present his fantasy about a world from another extremity, and one which often gives rise to a certain impression of coldness due to the forms. As he confronts his objects during his creative process, R Yuki often takes his imaginations to their farthest shore. He then plays with metaphors (or perhaps is more appropriate to call them "forms of association'), leading us to witness a transformation (or metamorphosis) from one object to another; a journey, a transparent move - who traces are easy to follow. In some of his works, we can easily find this concept.


R Yuki aesthetic ideas seems to hold back his emotions and intense expressions. R Yuki choose to work scrupulously - as if proving the strength of his logic. thence , R Yuki enter a unique stage in which two fields are combined: art and design. R Yuki deliberately makes use of the merging of the two disciples - although it has often happened on the field - to build his aesthetic vocabulary therefore making his creations seems so special.

* taken from Survey #2 exhibition curatorial pages, written by Aminuddin TH Siregar.

curated by Agung Hujatnikajennong, recommended by Aminuddin TH Siregar
first exhibited at Survey #2 - Edwin Gallery - Jakarta
a collection of Mr.Roy Wibisono