Eco-surrealism : Is the world we live in real?
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| Art work title: The City |
In the presentation of form these days in Asia, they are made as
imaginations of the real, which is still near the basis of the formation of
surrealism – to solve the contradiction of dream and reality.
Can you imagine the world near
future where the place we live can change quite drastically, in the name of
monies, peace, greed or negligence. I’ve recently got some works by Bambang P
Eryanto, a series that is rather worth for you to ponder further.
I’m particularly mindful that
the message in the art is about the artist’s view about the country he lives in
while it’s quite an usual for one contemporary artist in this time to take a
pure approach towards ecological subjects.
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| Art work title: Secret Installation |
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| Art work title: Future Garden |
Artistic
representations to form ecological dialogues isn’t new. Probably artisans over
time find their responsibility to counter the problems taking away a healthier
place humanity has lived in. They even felt they have the power to mobilise
mindsets of people, more than policies does. I could agree that intervention
means hasn’t been a charm to a population of survivors both rich and poor. How
much does a picture speaks to an adult and another child then?
As what surrealism does, to
make the element of surprise and unexpected sequences, Bambang’s works does
visually tell a world that is adapted to non-logical imaginations – but on a
closer look, it does represent a picture of where we are in this ultra urban
era, if not, just a future awhile away from where we stand. This calls a
question, if we should answer, ‘if the time we live in – is real?’
Men has made his own world what
they have before imagined. A city full of life, a garden where there was before
a forest and even tourism in huge force to build a bigger economy. Bambang’s
works relook at the thoughts of humanity, the irony in them, what was meant to
make our place a better earth, but did fail in ecological sense, to our time in
real and surreal.
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