DE "DESTROY TO CREATE" SOLO EXHIBITION / D GALLERY JAKARTA
In his latest solo
exhibition, Yogyakarta based graffiti artist, TUYULOVEME creates a concious understanding of his urban surroundings and its identity
and relationship to his unique visual style of graffiti. In DESTROY TO CREATE, the artist negotiates the notion of the
urban public domain in an enclosed controlled environment such as a gallery
space. While his artistic identity on the streets of Indonesia remains raw,
unprescribed at the very least, the gallery space provides the artist with a
different set of challenge in repurposing and negotiating spaces. How does one
bring the streets into the gallery? Essentially, street art or graffiti could
never belong in a controlled space such as a gallery. When an artform such as
graffiti is recontextualised into a gallery, what the artists essentially
addresses is the fundamental being of his artistic being and its existence
within the construct of various spaces. Climbing a billboard to bomb one’s name
presents the artist with a certain set of challenges which is unique to the
nature of the space, as is with creating a body of works for a solo exhibition
in a gallery space. TUYULOVEME’s approach of re-appropriating objects acquired
on the streets as a base for his artwork becomes the pertinent link in his
attempt to negotiate his urban artistic persona to exhibiting his works in the
gallery. Breathing new life into banal, decrepit objects as street signs and
others allows him the same artistic mobility and freedom, akin to the act of
defacing a decaying wall or billboard on the streets. In creation, there must
always be an act of destruction. This is the cycle. DESTROY TO CREATE.
ZERO for TUYULOVEME
Label: EVENT, EXHIBITION, SOLO EXHIBITION |
