Friday, October 14, 2011

Discovering Revelation from Collation

The dialectic of imagery attached to the canvas with roams of imagination.

Amongst artists, the word “revelation” becomes so familiar. Revelation is defined as none other than inspiration, idea, brainwave.

Many artists are successful in creating their masterpieces for being guided and assisted by supernatural hands of revelation. Many artists are also dumbfounded for the hassle of finding revelations. This is because revelations are often present without any invitations, and leave without saying goodbyes.

I Made Palguna is not a painter who gives up easily in hunting for revelations. This is proven from his latest works in display those are very far different from previous works that the public has already known to have a unique character. After one decade of his career as a painter, he is now making an effort to experiment with a new technique. He makes use of paper cuts with interesting images for his creative exploration stepping point.

With the collation technique, on every canvas he would randomly attach the image cuts from newspaper or magazines. Then with the guidance from his intuition and imagination he would respond and paint on those attachments with brushes of colors and streaks of lines, thus shapes or certain figures are formed. There is dialectic between the images those are attached to the canvas; with the roams of his imagination.

As an example, observe the painting “Beauty Pose”. The cubism nuanced painting displays the figure of a semi-nude lady sitting on a red chair. The face of the lady is from an image adopted from a photo cut in a magazine. Such was also with the painting titled “Luna”, the face of the female figure is a photo cut responded artistically.

Palguna’s latest paintings show various imagery layers overlapping each other. It stumbles one upon another with the brushes and spread of brightly dominant colors those seem to shape a certain composition. It makes his paintings look unique and soothing for the eyes, as can be seen on the painting titled “Gembala” (Shepherd) that is full of distortion figure imageries with cubism nuance.

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