Word: masriadi
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Indonesian painter I. Nyoman Masriadi's canvas My Adventure Ended After I Met Your Mother, above, depicts a father and son standing on either side of a closed door. A mug dangles from the father's hand while the son smokes. A tantalizing, possibly indecent joke is at once advanced and withheld by the painting...
...Masriadi refuses to let you see what his art is about," explains his Singapore-based art dealer Jasdeep Sandhu. "He uses wit as a shroud." But the market is rewarding his often garishly executed work. My Adventure fetched just over $370,000 at a Sotheby's auction in Hong Kong last month; The Man From Bantul (The Final Round) went for over $1 million to set a new record for contemporary Southeast Asian...
...Masriadi has come to prominence so quickly that there has been little critical analysis of his work. "The art critics haven't caught up with the art market," says Ahmad Mashadi of Singapore's NUS Museum. And with about a week left to run on "Black Is My Last Weapon," his solo exhibition at the Singapore Art Museum, www.singart.com, you have a chance to see what the collectors have been fussing about. Expect to be amused and provoked...
...Those choices do not seem to include any slowdown in snapping up the work of rising Southeast Asian artists, however. The Sotheby's auction for modern and contemporary Southeast Asian paintings on Oct. 6 had better sales, with I Nyoman Masriadi's "The Man from Bantul (The Final Round)" selling for $1,006,356 - a record price for both Southeast Asian contemporary art and the Indonesian artist. While Chinese contemporary art is looking like it may be heading for a slowdown, Bashat says, "Southeast Asian art still has appeal in this sense: good value art at reasonable prices, and artists...
...Given the scope of its ambition, "Strategies Towards the Real" is perhaps bound to falter in parts. To begin with, although the influence Sudjojono exerted over painters like Masriadi and Suwage is clear, it is less certain that he shaped the work of the more avant-garde artists in the show. (One thinks, in particular, of a Mantofani painting of a giant golf ball - shaped globe.) As the captions around the works are minimal, and the catalogue filled with opaque jargon, it is also frequently left to the viewer to connect the dots between Sudjojono's works, and between Sudjojono...