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Korean Indonesian artists at a loss for words
P-word: Indonesian artists Bujangan Urban and Tangsel Creative Foundation create an art installation made of wooden Korean letters titled Peace Monumentally
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span class="inline inline-center">P-word: Indonesian artists Bujangan Urban and Tangsel Creative Foundation create an art installation made of wooden Korean letters titled Peace Monumentally.
Korean and Indonesian artists are showcasing their reinterpretations of the Korean hangul alphabet, Latin letters and words in a joint exhibition as part of the Korea-Indonesia Festival 2014.
The art installation and exhibition, which spans a variety of mediums, provides visitors with a new, unique way to enjoy contemporary art.
In the exhibition ' titled 'Typotopia', a portmanteau of the words 'typography' and 'utopia' ' the artists used letters as symbols of language, not only as communication tools, but also as a means for play, which could be seen through the video installations, graphic-motion displays, animated movies ' and even the use of typography on furniture.
'Typotopia', which will run at the Lotte Shopping Avenue in Kuningan, South Jakarta, until Oct. 30, is divided into three sub-themes.
In 'Typography+Art', the artists explored letters and their meanings; while in 'Typography+Technology', works expressed how artists felt about today's technology.
In 'Typography+Games', the artists showed that words have become less relevant in communications as they have been replaced by symbols or pictures.
In this section, visitors could interact with the artwork.
The joint exhibition, curated by Arcolabs, was the second arranged by the Center for Art and Community Management of Surya University, the Korean embassy in Jakarta and the National Gallery of Indonesia.
The artists taking part in the exhibition are Koreans Ahn San-soo, Heo Chang-bong, Song Joo-myoung, Choi Seung-joon and Kim Yong-kwan.
Their Indonesian counterparts are Bujangan Urban, artists from the Tangsel Creative Foundation, Ramadhani Kurniawan, Syaiful Aulia Garibaldi, Adityo Pratomo, Narpati Awangga aka Oomleo, Terra Bajraghosa and Yasser Rizky.
While the exhibition was part of the month-long Korea-Indonesia Festival, which celebrates over 40 years of Indonesian-Korean bilateral ties; the event also coincided with Hangul Day on Oct.9.
' Photos by JP/Tertiani ZB Simanjuntak
