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HARIS PURNOMO
“Babies in Transcendent Space”
Opening
Thursday, 12th lJuly 2012, 6:00 p.m.
Primae Noctis Art Gallery is pleased to present the Solo exhibition “Babies in Transcendent Space” of the
Indonesian artist Haris Purnomo.
Haris Purnomo began his career in the late seventies joining Indonesia Art Movement, founded in 1975 in Jakarta, and today is among the most important contemporary Indonesian artists. He has refined his technique
over the years through tireless research work.
These new series of paintings displays that Purnomo is still interested in the dichotomy good and evil, positive
and negative, light and darkness, vice and innocence, strength and weakness.
The artist blends in harmonious compositions innocent children, defenseless, covering them with tattoos, to highlight the opposite attitude, aggression and strength, and let them float in a transcendent space. This is an
imaginary space that transcends reality, goes beyond and surpasses it to reveal it: it discloses the reality experienced by the artist. In the observer, gradually grows, takes shape and attacks him something so familiar,
constantly lived and experienced, encountered and dealt with every day: the reality of the contemporary
metropolis.
Innocence and ancient symbols, tribal, yet so relevant, like tattoos, are evoked as a symbol of violent force,
and infants, slaves, in these works are rediscovered body of this inseparable duality that dominates the human
reality in all its expressions.
The ambiguity in Haris Purnomo’s artwork is outlined in this double representation: the purity is thwarted,
since the beginning of her journey through life, by an evil, a defect, an obscurity, and yet we see it driven
by a force, by a power that can bring a warm glow, or a crying, or an excess of innocence, which, on closer
examination, reveals itself not only armed with feathers, but with knives.
HARIS PURNOMO
BIOGRAPHY
Education
Born in Delanggu, Klaten, Indonesia 1956.
Graduated from Sekolah Seni Rupa Indonesia (School of art), Yogyakarta, 1975 and Sekolah Tinggi Seni
Rupa Indonesia ‘Asri’ (College of Fine Art), Yogyakarta,1984.
Selected Solo exhibitons
2012
2009
2008
2007
2006
Haris Purnomo: Babies in Transcendent Space, Primae Noctis Art Gallery, Lugano, Switzerland
Haris Purnomo: Visual Poetry, CoCA - Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA, USA
Unbridgeable future, Vanessa Art Link, Beijing, China
Alien:nation: Haris Purnomo, The National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
Di Bawah Sayap Garuda, Nadi Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
Selected Group exhibitons
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
Indonesian Eye: Fantasies and Realities, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK,
Closing the Gap: Contemporary Indonesian Art, MiFA (Melbourne International Fine Art), Melbourne,
Australia
Pleasures of Chaos, Primo Marella Gallery, Milan, Italy
Post-Tsunami Art. South East B(l)ooming, Primo Marella Gallery Milan, Italy
Prague Biennale 4 - Prague Biennale, Prague, Czech Republic
Reflective Asia 3rd Nanjing Triennial, Nanjing, China
Manifesto, The National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
Kuota:Inbox 2007, The National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
Imagined Affandi, Gedung Arsip Nasional, Jakarta, Indonesia
Icon Yogyakarta, Yogya Gallery, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Mata-Mata Jakarta,The National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
Kisi-Kisi Jakarta, The National Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
HARIS PURNOMO
“Babies in Transcendent Space”
Opening
Giovedì, 12 luglio 2012, ore 18:00
Primae Noctis Art Gallery è lieta di presentare la personale “Babies in Transcendent Space” dell’artista
indonesiano Haris Purnomo.
Haris Purnomo inizia la sua carriera alla fine degli anni Settanta unendosi all’Indonesia Art Movement fondato
a Jakarta nel 1975 e oggi è tra i più importanti artisti indonesiani contemporanei. Egli ha raffinato la sua
tecnica pittorica nel corso degli anni attraverso un lavoro di ricerca instancabile.
Con queste nuove opere Purnomo dimostra di essere tuttora interessato alla dicotomia bene e male, positività
e negatività, luce e tenebra, vizio e innocenza, forza e debolezza.
L’artista amalgama in armoniose composizioni questi bambini innocenti, privi di difesa, ricoprendoli di tatuaggi,
a evidenziare l’atteggiamento opposto, l’aggressione e la forza, per lasciarli fluttuare in uno spazio trascendente. Uno spazio immaginario, che trascende la realtà, la oltrepassa e sorpassa per svelarla, facendo apparire di fronte ai nostri occhi lo specchio della realtà vissuta dall’artista, e nello spettatore, pian piano, cresce,
prende forma e lo assale una realtà così familiare, costantemente vissuta ed esperita, incontrata e affrontata
ogni giorno, la realtà delle metropoli contemporanee.
Innocenza e simboli antichi, tribali, eppure così attuali, come i tatuaggi, sono evocati a simbolo di forza violenta,
e i neonati, succubi, in queste opere si riscoprono fusione e corpo di una dualità inscindibile che domina la realtà
umana in ogni sua espressione.
L’ambiguità nelle opere di Haris Purnomo si delinea in questa doppia rappresentazione: la purezza si ritrova
bloccata, fin dall’inizio del suo cammino nella vita, da un male, un vizio, un’oscurità, eppure la vediamo sospinta
da una forza, da un potere, che può portarla a una luce calda, abbagliante, o a un pianto disperato, oppure
a un eccesso d’innocenza che, a ben guardare, si rivela armata non di sole piume, ma di coltelli.
HARIS PURNOMO
BIOGRAFIA
Istruzione
Nato a Delanggu, Klaten, Indonesia 1956.
Si è diplomato alla Sekolah Seni Rupa Indonesia (School of Art), Yogyakarta, nel 1975 e al Sekolah Tinggi
Seni Rupa Indonesia ‘Asri’ (College of Fine Art), Yogyakarta, nel 1984.
Selezione di mostre personali
2012
2009
2008
2007
2006
Haris Purnomo: Babies in Transcendent Space, Primae Noctis Art Gallery, Lugano, Svizzera
Haris Purnomo: Visual Poetry, CoCA - Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA, USA
Unbridgeable future, Vanessa Art Link, Beijing, Cina
Alien:nation: Haris Purnomo, The National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
Di Bawah Sayap Garuda, Nadi Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
Selezione di mostre collettive
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
Indonesian Eye: Fantasies and Realities, Saatchi Gallery, Londra, UK,
Closing the Gap: Contemporary Indonesian Art, MiFA (Melbourne International Fine Art), Melbourne,
Australia
Pleasures of Chaos, Primo Marella Gallery, Milano, Italia
Post-Tsunami Art. South East B(l)ooming, Primo Marella Gallery, Milano, Italia
Prague Biennale 4 - Prague Biennale, Praga, Repubblica Ceca
Reflective Asia 3rd Nanjing Triennial, Nanjing, Cina
Manifesto, The National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
Kuota:Inbox 2007, The National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
Imagined Affandi, Gedung Arsip Nasional, Jakarta, Indonesia
Icon Yogyakarta, Yogya Gallery, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Mata-Mata Jakarta,The National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
Kisi-Kisi Jakarta, The National Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia