Post breakup exhibition

It’s interesting to see two different characters colliding sweetly in a very personal exhibition, even when the artists used to be a couple. “Bukan Mereka Hanya Kami”, a collaboration by Sarita Ibnoe and Yugie Kartaatmaja in Treehouse, Kemang, is where that is exactly happening.

Sarita Ibnoe, working as a graphic designer and illustrator during the day, paints or experiments at night/early morning to balance things out between her work and passion, or just to make her hectic surroundings blur, relax and basically to keep her head together.

Being a part of ‘kami’ in this exhibition, she tries to introduce her style of drawing as well as painting and the subject matter that comes to her mind while she draws and paints. There are mostly personal stories within it, a visual from some phrase that she reads or a representation of a fragment of time from her life so far. Fine-art-based mixed media and print making are the methods she uses to produce her art most of the time.

Graduating with a degree in ceramic art from Bandung Institute of Technology, people usually say Yugie Kartaatmaja is very random about his work. He refers to his talent as ‘art based fluxus’ and he finds himself comfortable in any art media such as drawing, ceramics, digital print, mix media, video art, etc. Now he is currently doing an experiment in digital print and ceramic to combine them in a possible form. The phrase “life imitating art” is his main idea because everything he knows about art is wrong.

In this exhibition he tried to create an atmosphere about what is on his mind. The abstract shape and the gloomy side of surrealism from an artistic point of view which defines his life. Using digital media on acrylic, ceramic and canvas creating a monochromatic scene of what he believes is the ideal way to act. He combines this with the first paintings that he has ever exhibited.

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