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Roby Dwi Antono "Rumpus"
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Roby Dwi Antono
The talent of Roby Dwi Antono who had expressed a keen interest in painting from childhood was naturally cultivated with the support of his parents who valued freedom and allowed him to doodle as he pleased on the walls of their house, as well as the time he spent in his father’s metal workshop.
Antono’s oeuvre strongly reflects the influence of his beloved artists such as Mark Ryden, Yoshitomo Nara, and Javier Calleja, along with inspiration from Japanese comics and visual culture like Kamen Rider, Godzilla, and Dragon Ball. His work, derived from the act of “copying” which is a common practice for children around the world who love to draw and paint, still continues to change and evolve day by day through the amassment of his pure yet intellectual pursuits.
The exhibition will consist of a series of canvas paintings and drawings in oil sticks and oil pastels. The works, which appear reminiscent of children’s doodles, were indeed inspired by the artist’s childhood sketches of dinosaurs and cartoons that he had drawn on the street with pieces of charcoal while helping at his father's workshop. For Antono, who states that, “expressing oneself through paint and oil pastel doodles proves to be cathartic,” it is a natural matter of course that the vague images within his memories come to reemerge in his diary-like drawings repeatedly created in the midst of his daily production process.
The title of this exhibition, “Rumpus,” draws inspiration from Maurice Sendak’s 1963 children's book Where the Wild Things Are, which was adapted into a feature film directed by Spike Jonze in 2010. Focusing on a line from the film in which the protagonist shouts, “let the wild rumpus start!,” Antono places the story’s consistent theme of “childhood feelings” as the core pillar of his latest series of works.
The exhibition at 3110NZ will feature a series of portraits depicted with spray paint on a single-tone background. The portraits, conceived in a symmetrical composition and at once seemingly boy and girl, appear to serenely convey Antono’s own spirituality, ethnicity, and historicity as an artist with Indonesian roots.
Antono’s oeuvre strongly reflects the influence of his beloved artists such as Mark Ryden, Yoshitomo Nara, and Javier Calleja, along with inspiration from Japanese comics and visual culture like Kamen Rider, Godzilla, and Dragon Ball. His work, derived from the act of “copying” which is a common practice for children around the world who love to draw and paint, still continues to change and evolve day by day through the amassment of his pure yet intellectual pursuits.
The exhibition will consist of a series of canvas paintings and drawings in oil sticks and oil pastels. The works, which appear reminiscent of children’s doodles, were indeed inspired by the artist’s childhood sketches of dinosaurs and cartoons that he had drawn on the street with pieces of charcoal while helping at his father's workshop. For Antono, who states that, “expressing oneself through paint and oil pastel doodles proves to be cathartic,” it is a natural matter of course that the vague images within his memories come to reemerge in his diary-like drawings repeatedly created in the midst of his daily production process.
The title of this exhibition, “Rumpus,” draws inspiration from Maurice Sendak’s 1963 children's book Where the Wild Things Are, which was adapted into a feature film directed by Spike Jonze in 2010. Focusing on a line from the film in which the protagonist shouts, “let the wild rumpus start!,” Antono places the story’s consistent theme of “childhood feelings” as the core pillar of his latest series of works.
The exhibition at 3110NZ will feature a series of portraits depicted with spray paint on a single-tone background. The portraits, conceived in a symmetrical composition and at once seemingly boy and girl, appear to serenely convey Antono’s own spirituality, ethnicity, and historicity as an artist with Indonesian roots.
Schedule | Jan 9 (Sun) 2022-Feb 6 (Sun) 2022 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | https://nanzuka.com/en/exhibitions/roby-dwi-antono-rumpus/press-release | ||||
| Venue | Nanzuka Underground http://www.nug.jp | ||||
| Location | 3-30-10 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0001 | ||||
| Access | 8 minute walk from exit 5 at Meiji-jingumae Station on the Chiyoda and Fukutoshin lines, 10 minute walk from the Takeshita exit of Harajuku Station on the JR Yamanote line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-5422-3877 | ||||
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