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Exhibition for UOB Painting of the Year on until Nov. 19
This year’s winner is ANGST by Suvi Wahyudianto from Indonesia.
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The 2018 UOB Painting of the Year winner: ANGST by Suvi Wahyudianto. (JP/Irfan Rulianto)
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OB Indonesia held an opening exhibition preview for the 2018 UOB Painting of the Year on Thursday at the National Gallery in Central Jakarta.
UOB Painting of the Year is an annual Southeast Asian art contest in which thousands of artists from the region compete in professional and newcomer categories.
Fifty works were picked as finalists and displayed in an exhibition that is open to the public from Nov. 9 to 19 at the gallery's Building A, with opening hours from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m daily.
The preview was attended by the Education and Culture Ministry’s director general of culture, Hilmar Farid, National Gallery head Pustanto and Singapore Chamber of Commerce Indonesia chairman Noor Meurling.
Harpist Maya Hasan was the invited musical performer for the event. She played a harp rendition of Indonesian singer-songwriter Chrisye’s "Untukku".
This year’s winner is ANGST by Suvi Wahyudianto from Indonesia. The artwork, which resembles the human flesh in an open wound, narrates the tragedy of personal experience and the social memory of conflict that results in polarizing sentiments.
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Suvi utilized the mediums of resin, plastic and enamel on an aluminum plate to create ANGST. “Plastic is often used as the outermost layer to wrap a product, just like the human skin,” the 26-year-old Madurese explained. “We are all the same under that skin.”
UOB Painting of the Year competition started in 2011 and since then Indonesian artists have won the contest five times -- in 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2018.
"I was not puzzled by this fact because the quality of our artists, their experience and thoughts are outstanding," said Hilmar. (iru/kes)
