Nowhere Else

Curated by Arif Bagus Prasetyo

Samarpan celebrates color as emanation of light. Color are effective vocabularies available for the painter to compose his visual language of thoughts and feelings on canvas. Coloring with all of its complication is intensely managed by Samarpan to be his main vehicle of artistic expression laden with meaning. The rhythm of the proportionally related rectangular fields, and the alternation of color values between light and dark, corresponds to emotionality. The harmonious yet full of nuances color spectrum, applied in fine gradation on the pictorial space, creates a serene, contemplative as well as vibrant atmosphere. In Samarpan’s paintings, serenity finds a unique and pure strength.

The charm of Samarpan’s paintings also emerges from the transparent and quiet space that seems to multiply and expand beyond the border of canvas. His paintings demonstrate a poetic, magical, moment of transition: a special moment when the heart of reality touched by the painter opens its layers and turns crystal clear in the horizon of conscience. The visual poetic reflects a subtle and authentic process to give meaning to the world that is increasingly losing its meaning, to transcend our contemporary world from its banal state, to spiritualize its material overweight.

In his thinking and his work, Samarpan blends religious sensibility and rational calculation. The result, amazingly, is an art of pure presence. Nowhere Else. A here-without-where.

Start Time: Friday, March 5, 2010 at 6:30pm
End Time: Monday, April 5, 2010 at 5:00pm
Venue: Tonyraka Art Gallery
Address: Jl. Raya Mas No. 86, Mas-Ubud, Bali