Tuesday, February 12, 2013

"Rally: Contemporary Indonesian Art" (NGV)

Actually just displays work of two Yogyakarta (central Java)-based artists. The ones by Eko Nugroho - playful and culturally engaged, a mix of sculptural and largeish scale wall-mounted drawing and mural-type pieces - didn't hugely grab me, though they're likeable. More distinctive were the video works/installations of Jompet Kuswidananto; I can't say I particularly felt I grasped even their textual levels, never mind subtext or context, but they had a depth to them, both intellectual and visceral - ie artistic.