Imagination and Drawing Art

Free streaks of lines, resulting in unsuspected shapes.

In the world of fine-arts, drawing has been considered as the second class art. Many perceive drawing as nothing more than just scrapes to practice on flexibility of the hands as creating lines. However, such is not the case with I Ketut Sugantika alias Lekung. Feeling jaded with painting art, he goes back to pencil and creates drawing art on paper and canvas.

His drawing creations posses their own uniqueness those are quite imaginative. The streaks of lines are done freely, flowing with the rhythm of his imagination. The result is unsuspected shapes, such as the form of animals or humans those are distorted and absurd.

Take for example, his work titled “Object 15 (the Power of Indonesian Women)”; that presents the figure of an afro haired woman standing on a steel covered vehicle. The hand of the figure forms a crouch, while on her shoulder a string of rope ties around a missile. On the right lower part the head of a man with a Mohawk styled hair emerges.

Then on his work “Object 11 (Thousand Hand)”; the figure of a woman whore shoulder are overgrown with hands can be seen, almost making a form of a propeller. While as in his work ”Touring”, he shows the naïve characterized figures those remind us of children’s drawing around the house walls. However, in the other hand, some of his works present figures of naked women sitting with their legs spread apart.

Through this exhibition, Lekung tries to raise the dignity of drawing art. Besides 20 drawing works, there were also two sculpture works. The sculpture works are formulated from found metals and items, such as used mufflers and motorcycle parts, gas tube, and so on. A large size sculpture and the found items take shape of an alien vehicle, such can be seen on the sculpture titled “Object 24 (UFO)”.

I Ketut sugantika was born in Singapadu, Gianyar, 17 August 1975. Finished his study at the ISI Denpasar, since year 1994 he has been active in various collective exhibitions. In 1995 he was awarded by the Embassy of Peru. In 1999 one of his works was a finalist for the Winsor & Newton Award, and in 2003 he had his debut sole exhibition at the Cultural Park of Bali.