작품 상세

In the lexicon of relationships, it tends to get ambiguous in one that involves humans and animals, and this can be seen in films such as Lassie, Beethoven and National Velvet. That is the trajectory of Ugo Untoro’s Poem Of Blood painting oeuvre here when his horse, Badia Lembut, was killed in a horse-racing accident. The works spanning 2006-2007, were shown at the Yogyakarta Cultural Park and the Galeri Nasional Jakarta in 2007, the SH Contemporary Art Fair in September 2008 and the Rome Contemporary Art Fair in April 2009. Existential questions about the complexities about such relationships, how they are perceived, presented and the symbolisms both general and personal. Given the tragedy, there is not even a hint of grief in some of the works. As Ugo Untoro intoned: “I paint on anything, with anything, using whatever technique, about anything that’s here inside me when I am face-to-face with something to paint on.” Painter-sculptor-video-maker and performing artist Ugo Untoro was named Man of the Year in 2007 by Tempo magazine. He is remembered in Malaysia for his Short Short Stories exhibition held at Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, in 2006, which was repeated in Art Forum in Singapore in 2007. He studied at the Indonesian Art Institute (ISI) in Yogyakarta in 1988-1996, but already had his first solo at Bentara Budaya Yogyakarta in 1995. He won the Philip Morris Asean Art Awards, Indonesia in 1998. His latest solo, Rindu Lukisan, was held at the National Gallery, Gambir, Central Jakarta.