According Naomi Samara, a young Indonesian and artist from Sanur Beach, Bali, the island is full of young, new talent coming waiting to burst into a creative frenzy if presented with the opportunity to express themselves in innumerable and unexpected forms. Admirably, she took it upon herself not only to advance his own career, but also to explore new paradigms on the Bali art scene beginning with the founding of Swoon, a small and unique gallery featuring "provocative works fun by mainly young local and international artists "named after a pleasant sound associated with being swept off your feet by love.
A member of the third generation of the legendary clan Wawo-Runtu, Naomi was raised in what she describes as "a rich creative environment, for a family of eccentrics and extremists ..." The patriarch his clan was none other than the Wija Wawo -Runtu, who is best known for founding the famous Tandjung Sari Hotel, probably the first tropical resort in the world from which all others have seen. Sustainability vision was just celebrated the 50th anniversary of the station.
Before becoming a tourism entrepreneur Wija was a student bohemian cinema in London and after returning to Indonesia in 1952 with his English wife, Judith Bell (grandmother Naomi), designed for interiors for homes, hotels and embassies in Jakarta during the heady days of the Republic of Indonesia earlier. Naturally charismatic, where Wawo Runtu-led, artists, eccentrics, collectors, jet setters and celebrities followed. Judith, too, was a talented painter and designer Naomi recognizes that as a first important influence. Aunt Wija, Emiria Soenassa, was the only woman in Persagi first movement of modern art in Indonesia Persagi founded in 1938. One of the best friends Wija was the famous Australian expatriate artist and collector, Donald Friend. Paintings at once and many other artists decorated the walls of the family compound. Ade Wawo-Runtu, Naomi's mother, co-founded Jenggala, Bali and the first ever first ceramics workshop with Brent Hesselyn and configuration using one of the most popular monuments in Sanur -. Café Batu Jimbar
Growing up in such an environment can be challenging because many children of parents who have succeeded have noticed, it also carries a special burden for a young woman as fiercely independent as Naomi. While his education began in a simple Balinese village school with a strict repetitive program, she would end her educational career with a degree in Arts and Design of the prestigious Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) followed by a year Fashion Design. While she was eager to return home after years in Australia, returning to Bali many challenges. Determined to become an artist, she struggled to achieve its goal of significantly which was not a simple task in a transient tourist destination often called "the island of the artists."
First and ironically much of the supposedly vaunted Bali tourist schlock art. - repetitious, derivative and commercial While a handful of serious galleries there are exhibitions dominated by paintings by artists with an established commercial success. so, too, the level of conservation in Bali is overly conservative with an emphasis on fine arts, a term found not relevant since the advent of post-modern art in the 1970s generally, there is a confusion, vicious competition and few opportunities for young artists especially if they do not want to integrate into standard commercial categories.
"Contemporary art is not to be limited by the limits of a canvas, "Naomi States. "Art is multifaceted and encompasses multiple disciplines and technologies, including fashion, computer, web, graphic design and social media, overlapping each other every day." In some ways, Naomi is planning a kind of revolution that begins with a paradigm shift in attitudes, perceptions and expectations. His concepts are small, versatile, multifaceted, out of the box and include facilities, clothing, objects, sculptures, drawings and paintings beautifully presented, packaged and modest prices.
Naomi Samara
His own work of art is a strange cocktail of emotions, sexuality and identity. So, too, they reflect an image of herself as "a great observer of collisions and mergers between personal worlds ..." Working in pen and ink with color, it displays a line and attention to detail although strongly influenced by fashion design. His subjects are inevitably troubled young women suggesting intense self-analysis from the point of view of the "naive disorientation." one particularly interesting, "Underwater Carnivore" shown in an exhibition Swoon recent titled "Monsters" (Mahkluk) shows the beauty sad doe eyes apparently trapped by scarlet tentacles. the setting, a real window of a diving helmet, strengthens the feeling of being hopelessly immersed with a subtle touch of satire While ostensibly cries for help or attention, if you scratch the surface it is difficult to detect a smart plan to shock playing with stereotypes and challenge bourgeois assumptions. - another link in a long string of radical and eccentric indeed
Naomi fears of a lost girl abandoned or paralyzed by anxiety dissipated by his courageous efforts, not only to promote its own creative efforts but also those of a close knit community of likeminded young artists. Well organized, it has set an ambitious schedule of monthly thematic exhibitions for Swoon. Some like, "Monsters", are subject to collective efforts. One of the favorite artists of Naomi is the young architect Iwan Sastrawan. Sastrawan the basic work is in black and white drawings that recall Comics underground. Its subject - sexual hypocrisy, double standards and arbitrary codes of ethics directly and indirectly challenge the status quo. The emphasis in the displayed work is fresh and edgy.
In the greater scheme of things, Naomi designs Swoon as a lightning rod to attract many young creative beings out of the closet, and a model for the creation of similar galleries set up by young people as minded artists to form a cooperation network around the island and the nation. She is also busy working on its website and other unique features that allow people to share art and exhibitions worldwide.
The children of Bohemians, artists, eccentrics and randomly visitors who married, or just never left represent an exciting unknown factor in the future of Bali and Indonesia. Usually fluent in the languages and local customs, they are international in every sense. The construction of new bridges and the formulation and implementation of innovative creative solutions that dissolve boundaries and forge alliances are tasks for which they are well equipped. If you want to know more about them and this remarkable young artist, make sure you attend the next Swoon exhibition entitled "Cataclysm", which will open at 18:30. For more information, visit the website or send an email to put your name on this important invitation list.
Swoon
Jalan Danau Tamblingan 35a
Sanur, Bali
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