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Artist couple Agung, Windi collaborate on joint exhibition at National Gallery

Eleven pieces on light by Bandung-based artists Agung Fitriana and his wife Windi Apriani are on display at the National Gallery of Indonesia in Jakarta, with an exhibition titled "Visible Form of Feelings" running until July 13. 

Liza Yosephine (The Jakarta Post)
Jakarta
Wed, July 4, 2018

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Artist couple Agung, Windi collaborate on joint exhibition at National Gallery Artists Agung Fitriana and his wife Windi Apriani stuck to their own style for a joint exhibition at the National Gallery of Indonesia. (JP/Wienda Parwitasari)

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usband and wife duo Agung Fitriana and his wife Windi Apriani have collaborated on a joint exhibition titled "Visible Form of Feelings", currently on display at the National Gallery of Indonesia in Jakarta until July 13. 

Organized by Rachel Gallery, the exhibition was curated by Rizki A. Zaelani, who put together 11 pieces on display. In working with the space, which consisted of three zones, Rizki split the collection to group together each respective artist’s works in their own section, while combining an equal amount in the middle section of the space.

Throughout the process, Rizki said he worked together with the artists by encouraging them to stay true to their styles to showcase their distinctiveness. Both Windi and Agung played with light in their work, he said, depicting their own take on the effect of light in the way of drawing. 

"Windi may be more concrete by drawing real objects while Agung is more subtle, but both explored the role of light in their approaches," Rizki said.

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Despite the different styles, the curator said there were still similarities between the artists reflected through their canvas. 

"When we enter, we would immediately see that Windi's works are her own and Agung's works are his own. And from these differences, perhaps it is our own feelings that can determine that there are indeed similarities in them," Rizki said during the opening night on Friday. 

Windi, who has five pieces on display, covered each canvas using ballpoint pens, a technique she has favored since 2010. 

"My background is actually oil on canvas, however, with time, I became more comfortable with ballpoint pens," Windi said.

Arists Windi Apriani used a ballpoint to create her pieces.
Arists Windi Apriani used a ballpoint to create her pieces. (JP/Wienda Parwitasari)

For the collection, she drew everyday objects to depict how light would reflect, such as on curtains and chairs. With a canvas measuring 1.9 by 1.5 meters, she said each would use up just less than a dozen pens.

Agung, meanwhile, created six pieces using oil on canvas. He produced abstract images that reflect a thin and gradative impression despite the heavy layers of paint used.

"What actually created this element of transparency and a foggy touch to the painting is glazing. And the glazing uses a white color, but not pure white, something with a touch of purple or brown," Agung said in explaining his work.

When asked whether he would focus on a particular emotion to reflect in a canvas, he said that the process determined the direction of each work. 

"Before working on something, of course there's a feel for it, but a specific aspect on it is more or less is so revealed once the work is actually finished," he said, adding that each canvas took between three to four weeks to complete. (kes)

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