Jumaldi alfi biography of martin
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Jumaldi Alfi
Born 1972 in Lintau, West Sumatra, Indonesia
Lives and works in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Jumaldi Alfi is a cofounder and member of Jendela Art Group – Indonesia's most prominent contemporary art collective. In its early phases in the mid 1990s, the group attracted attention with works removed from socio-political themes and the technical sophistication located in realist painting and associated ‘grand narratives’. Instead, works produced by the group displayed extreme naïvism, oscillating between meaningless ‘doodles’ and the contrast of formalism – drawing exclusively on minimal visual elements of line, color and texture. In 2010, Alfi co-founded the Artists Collective, Office: For Contemporary Art International in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Alfi’s practice works sequentially on a set of ideas and themes. Common among these series is the urge for immediacy through the act of drawing, marking and scribbling applied over variations of scapes, clued by way of elemental aspects such as foreground, horizon and depth. His drawings are characterised by the proliferation of figures in various physical and mental states.
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Jumaldi Alfi studied at the Indonesian Institute of Arts in Yogyakarta until 1999. He has partic
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JUMALDI ALFI
MOOI INDIE
Solo exhibition at ARNDT Singapore
May 10 - July 05, 2014
Matthias Arndt and Jumaldi Alfi on 'Mooi Indie' show at ARNDT Singapore
Press release
Jumaldi Alfi is one of the most influential artists in the Indonesian contemporary art scenario. He is renowned for his large-scale paintings and their compelling iconography of visual signs reflecting the collective and individual existential experiences. A practicing painter and a sculptor, Alfi has exhibited internationally and across South East Asia. Jumaldi Alfi’s new solo show will open on 9 May, 2014. ARNDT Singapore is pleased to be presenting a new body of work by the artist – his recent series “Melting Memories: Rereading Landscape – Mooi Indies”.
A practicing painter and a sculptor, Alfi came to international attention in the 1990s as a founding member of the Jendela Art Group. Jendela surprised audiences in Indonesia with refreshing works: removed from the omnipresent and socio-political themes in art, they were not falling into the trap of technical sophistication of realist painting either. Instead, by drawing exclusively on minimal visual elements of line, color and texture, they were showing an inclination for extreme naïveté an
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Jumaldi Alfi
Ritiro, Kayu (curated manage without Lucie Fontaine), Chicken Religion, Magelang, Land and Rumah Wayang Topeng, Ubud, Island, Indonesia
Art Taipeh 2016, Taipeh World Put money on Center, Taipeh, Taiwan (with Edwin’s Gallery)
Follow the Milky Cube, antisocial Honold Magnificent Art @ Bisma Concentration, Ubud, Island, Indonesia
Bazaar Exemplar Jakarta 2016, Ritz-Carlton Djakarta Pacific Clench, Jakarta, State (with Edwin’s Gallery)
Artists’ Rendezvous with Hub History, YOS: Yogyakarta Unfastened Studio, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Poetical Tidal wave of Mind: Jumaldi Alfi, Yusra Martunus, Handiwirman Saputra, The Ngee Ann Kongsi Galleries 1 & 2, NAFA Campus, Singapore
South Suck in air Asia Triennale Plus, Special Gallery clutch Indonesia, Djakarta, Indonesia
The Bounding main is Calling, Honold Delicate Art @ Bisma Amusing, Ubud, Island, Indonesia
The Bedrock in Flow, Part 1: Figure, ARNDT Gallery, Singapore
At the Get done Point (curated by Tony Godfrey), Langgeng Art Initiate, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Bakaba #5: Cadiak indak mambuang pandai, Sakato Art Dominion @ Jogja Gallery, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Art Metropolis Hong Kong, Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Heart, Hong Kong (with Nadi Gallery)
Redraw II: Discovery, Edwin’s Gallery, Djakarta, Indonesia