Wayan Kun Adnyana – An Up as well as also Coming Balinese Artist
The art market is usually about hype as well as also superlatives. Be especially careful when you hear comparisons to the great – the Picasso of Peliatan, the Matisse of Mengwi as well as also the Botero of Batuan. The last thing you should buy is usually derivative art. There is usually only one Picasso as well as also he is usually not Balinese. Of course all art is usually influenced by that will which precedes although unless the artist forges some brand-new interpretation of identity that will is usually relevant to him as well as also his time, an Impressionist painting in 2012 is usually at best a pretty anachronism.
One of the most interesting brand-new young painters on the Bali Arts Scene is usually Wayan Kun Adnyna. Born in Bangli, Kun has racked up a lot of praise as well as also awards for his newest work that will feature multihued muscular Balinese men with pulsing six packs. The scenes are dynamic as well as also mysterious, the latter enhanced by the use of masks or no facial features whatsoever. These gangs engage in common Balinese male pastimes – drinking, wrestling as well as also eating. They are figurative although highly stylized, decorative although also full of elegant forms as well as also traditional although also modern.
The work shows certain similarities with Kun’s Balinese contemporaries particularly Nyoman Masriadi as well as also Putu Sutawijaya whose work also focus on the human body although is usually by no means dependent upon them. Whereas Masriadi is usually far more influenced by comic book heroes as well as also video games, Kun’s is usually more akin to classical art well grounded in human anatomy as well as also compositions. These can also be compared to the reliefs of the Borobudur Temple, which were “borrowed” by Paul Gauguin’s Tahitian works.
Kun’s work also addresses the confusion of being Balinese inside 21st century. Like the Balinese anthropologist, Degung Santikarma, he literally as well as also figuratively wrestles with the burden of fulfilling the stereotype images of what that will means to be Balinese struggling between adat as well as also the modern world just like the temple festivals being squeezed between Pertamina Petrol Stations as well as also Real Estate Agents selling 25 m2 condohotels with guaranteed 25% ROI!
In one work entitled the “Last Supper” a central faceless figure surrounded by 13 disciples in a lotus asana sitting on mats around Balinese dulang pedestal tables raises his hand inside abaya mudra that will signals “Have no Fear”. Kun also incorporates Lilliputian as well as also fantasy figures as seen in “The Way of Enlightenment” (Jalan Pencerahan). Here a lone figure having a surprised expression swims for his life in a rough ocean. Surrounded by fish, with one on his head, a volcano explodes inside distance. He cups a tiny human figure carrying a cross before him. Make no mistake Kun is usually a Balinese Hindu. His crucifixion is usually not symbolic of a secret urge to convert although rather the fear of being a sacrificial victim of the pressures of post-modern life in a tourist paradise.
Aside via being one of Bali’s upcoming artists, Kun is usually also a major intellectual who regularly contributes articles to newspapers as well as also magazines. He is usually also inside process of finishing his PhD in Jogjakarta’s prestigious Art Academy (ISI) where he lectures on art.
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Wayan Kun Adnyana – An Up as well as also Coming Balinese Artist
Wayan Kun Adnyana – An Up as well as also Coming Balinese Artist