Controlled Coincidence
After two installation exhibitions, Nunu Fine Art is about to return to the basic of art, which is the paintings.While often being viewed as a familiar medium, paintings could be more difficult than other rest of the materials, as it has already been explored by so many ancestors, no matter on its style or form.Getting rid of the tagging from the history of art itself and searching for an innovative way to reflect the artist’s true essence has become an issue that every contemporary painters must deal with.
The four painters that Nunu Fine Art represents for the exhibition this time still more or less inherit the traits from the previous principles in history. However, all of the four painters have shared the similar spirit of continuously questioning themselves for the nature of art, making them dedicated fully to explore their own idea of the final possible answer in art.
The indonesian artist Iabadiou Piko,his creations burst with strong colours and elements, showing its rich internal world.His style could be related to expressionism easily, but at the same time spontaneously maintains his own instinct by featuring regional totem and tone. The results of Piko’s artworks demonstrate his extraordinary ability of managing and blending styles from different culture streams. Another Asian artist Toru Kuwakubo shows audience a different spectrum of Asian culture. Known for his unique texture to present the subtle transformation of light, Kuwakubo has often been viewed as an executer of impressionism. However, there is a basic difference between the artist’s concept and the classic principle: the scenes are all based on the artist’s virtual mind instead of reality. The non-realistic scenes with the vigorous strokes record the poetic and trivial personal moments of the Japanese artist.
Both Toru and Piko utilise their own experience to grant their work a sense of character, but for artist Siri and Rodney Dickson, nothing is more vital than the irreplaceable moment of painting.Siri believes that without fully controlling the paintings,coincidence will bring rhythm and harmony to the works. The concept is similar with Fluxus school and abstract expressionism. But even though under the same concept, the feminine tone in her practice render a fresh explanation.
Rodney Dickson is holding a similar concept with Siri as well. Within his famous thick oil paintings, he randomly traced the motion of paintings, and piled up the imagery of time and space.Furthermore,in his latest series, he chose to scrap all the pigments off as the last step of his creation process. Besides the hidden philosophical meaning,the action discovered the coincident effects of different colours that is invisible before.
The four artists has given their individual answer through their practice. If it’s necessary to name an particular answer,「Controlled Coincidence」 could be the closest idea that all of the 4 artists have expressed. The contrastive but complementary idea creates an opportunity for every painter to escape the frame of history, paving a road that couldn’t be predict nor replace.