Goetheian Crayons = Pure Beauty
From Better Living Through Design, we discovered these German-made chunky crayons of pure beeswax and natural pigments. The box is so beautiful, it makes sense to buy two, one to use, and one to keep....
View ArticleUpdate on the “Ugo-Filippo Show”
Finally, here are photos from the Ugo Untoro/Filippo Sciascia vernissage at Biasa Artspace (which I posted about a couple weeks ago). Your patience has been rewarded. Sorry, no photos of Ugo. He’s kind...
View ArticlePretty Viscera: Davina Stephens at Ganesha Gallery
Something profound happened at the opening reception for Davina Stephens’ exhibition entitled “This Side of Paradise” (Ganesha Gallery, Four Seasons Resort Jimbaran, 18 December). What happened is...
View ArticleWitness the Self-Evident: Budi Agung Kuswara at Komaneka Gallery
Who hung this show? I forgot to ask during the opening last Saturday at Komaneka Gallery. What was extraordinary to me, and what begged the question about who hung this show, was the spontaneous...
View ArticleIt’s Simply Biasa Being a Fool for Indieguerillas’ Fool’s Lore
OK here we go, a bit late. The best gallery opening of the winter holiday high season in Bali was just before Christmas at Biasa Artspace. Indieguerillas were the artists, a husband and wife team out...
View ArticleFine Friends: Tribal Art Meets Modern at the Beyeler
A truly outstanding exhibition at a truly outstanding institution. The Beyeler Foundation in Basel offers “Visual Encounters — Africa, Oceania and Modern Art,” through 24 May 2009. The show juxtaposes...
View ArticleDisconnected Threads: Tisna Sanjaya @ Kendra Gallery
Start Here: Too Much Text If art works demand a seven page “curatorial essay” then perhaps there is something amiss, some loose threads in the fabric. Shall we examine some random loose threads...
View ArticleIndonesian Textiles as Art: The Eyes Have It
An exhibition “Indonesian Textiles as Art” opened on 19 July at the Museum Pasifika in Nusa Dua, Bali. We were there. We saw. And we agreed wholeheartedly with the stance of Georges Breguet who mounted...
View ArticleMondo at Biasa Artspace: This Ain’t No Party, This Ain’t No Wonderland
Nice party. Beautiful people. Harrowing canvasses. Clearly, this ain’t no fooling around, even if it did take place in Bali, the ultimate island for fooling around, art-wise and otherwise. But a...
View ArticleLive Art @ KuDeTa Bali: The Writing is on the Wall (For Charity)
Be at KuDeTa on Friday 26 February for a no-jive, all-live, art attack. Two UK artists painting live before your eyes to the tune of globally-regrooved hip hop, morphed tropical urban house and deep...
View ArticleEbon Heath at Kendra Gallery Bali: We Listen with Our Eyes
Stereo.type, the subject of the current exhibition at Kendra Gallery, is one of the myriad projects of artist-designer-activist Ebon Heath. It consists of metamorphosed typography which transmits...
View ArticleCritical Whimsy: Sandow Birk’s American Qur’an at PPOW
Sandow Birk is one of the most interesting artists working (hard) in America. I began following his work at first because our friendship is a Bali bond. Then I continued following because it’s...
View ArticleOddly Haunting: On Camera at Biasa Artspace Seminyak
Biasa Artspace has been missing its mojo for months, during the extended absence of its founder, Susanna Perini. For most of 2010, a bevy of guest curators stepped in to keep the Biasa heart beating...
View ArticleOuch! A Clothespin Pinch in Liege Leads to Art Dubai and Biasa Bali
The planet is pinching itself to make sure that it’s not dreaming, with this six-meter sculpture by Turkish artist, Mehmet Ali Uysal. The work was installed as part of Festival Cinq Saisons at...
View ArticleAfterhours Books Releases Superlative Spies Suite
On the subject of Spies, history remained almost silent for quite some time following his untimely death in 1942. He was only 46 years old then, an artist at the height of his significant talent, when...
View ArticleSylvie Goussopoulos Shoots Bali, Oddly Enough
Sylvie Goussopoulos, is French photographer with an eccentric eye. She’s just shot Bali, and her images from the Bali trip are the subject of an exhibition entitled Pas d’amok à Bali, that opened last...
View ArticleDance Vibration – photography exhibition
Tomorrow! 29 March. An evening that will be remembered as “one of those moments” – – a “you should’ve been there” one. Talented photographer Doddy Obenk + important figures in traditional dance and...
View ArticleBALI CREATIVE ECONOMY
The Director General of Creative Economy of the Republic of Indonesia, I Gde Pitana Brahmananda, is calling on the young people of Bali to get creative, get innovative, and get going as creative...
View ArticleLéon Wuidar is Being Belgian
Here's Léon Wuidar, represented by White Cube gallery, a Belgian neo-suprematist descended from that grand tradition, with a show going on seven weeks already, with just two more weeks 'til it unhangs....
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