nudehead: drawing

Sunday, April 9, 2017

A tree in eden 1992

A Burbon Street memorial college

I tried to put myself outside
Stopped to dream of being seen
A half-naked drunk woman crawled on my mind
An old man told to not spank the street dogs and stay out of light
“Your eyes like a shipwrecked to me, your smile like a thief’s”
I try to put myself outside while my soul is elsewhere
Don’t yell at a Strangelove, peace won’t makes you put to sleep no more.
Take a hidden pit if you would leave the town,
And never knock the church door as a way to find yourself inside
He is nowhere though you think you had seen some traces
And I know it was me myself who sleep aside as that stranger
Its amazes how all cheat happened
Cos I won’t be proud to meet the director
You know I always tried to put myself outside
Nothing but illusion
Else is won’t work for me.

Monday, February 13, 2012

I am the Earth (and other series) my recent exhibition

Rivers of Life

mud, paper collages, pencil, site-specific mural at Selasar Sunaryo Art Space

530 x 620 cm

2012

YUDI YUDOYOKO
I am the Earth (and other series)

Yudi Yudoyoko, is an Indonesian artist who has lived and worked between Montevideo, Uruguay, and Buenos Aires, Argentina, since 2003. In the early 1990s, he was one of the artists involved with experimental art practices in Bandung, mainly through the medium of performance, installation and drawing. For two decades, Yudoyoko's practice has been in constant evolution—often marked by radical changes, ruptures and leaps—that accompanied his life journey, artistic experimentation, thoughts and rejection towards the establishment.

This exhibition is divided into two parts. The first shows Yudoyoko's recent works in the form of series of digital prints and murals, entitled I am the Earth, which was done during his stay in Latin America. These works reflect the artist's cosmological views about human life as inseparable part of the nature: flora, fauna, soil and all the earth's dwellers.

While the second part is an effort to revisit Yudoyoko's works that were done in the 1990s. Consisting of installations, objects, drawings and collages, the exhibition part displays A Man and an Egg (1993), Original Sin (1995) and Raja Congcot (1995 - present). In general, these three series of work reflect the artist's comments, sarcasm, criticism and existential statements, as part of the surrounding community and civilization.

This exhibition does not constitute a retrospective display of Yudoyoko's artistic journey as a whole, rather only displays a few important episodes in his career. In a glimpse, Yudi Yudoyoko's artistic journey indeed tend to be non-linear. But precisely through it, we can learn a lot about the nature of creative process of the artist. There, the boundary between art and life tend to be thin and often blurred. Yudoyoko has made his artistic experimentation a way of life, and upheld the definition of art as a totality of life itself.

(Agung Hujatnikajennong, exhibition curator)