Iabadiou Piko Luzhu

Iabadiou Piko's Residency Program in Luzhunan

After British artist Maya Hewitt, we invited Indonesian artist Iabadiou Piko to Taiwan for a residency program in the collaboration with Luzhunan village. With highly-conserved traditional dwellings and special geographical environment, Piko could experience its unique atmosphere and cultural landscape that differs from the big cities. Also, Piko hold several painting workshops with local children in the same period. The oil paintings and paper drawings made their debut in the group show “Controlled Coincidence- Qualitative and Quantitative Changes”, displaying the local scenery in the artist’s eyes through the colorful and provocative lines.

Piko is known for his ability of blending Eastern spirit and Western expression. The bold and fresh totem originates from the unique cultural atmosphere and environment in Southeast Asia, while the intuitive brush strokes further highlight the artist's sensibility. These enable Piko to develop his talents for placing both habitation memory and collective identification into his works.

All the agricultural machinery, kiln potteries, traditional brick and tile buildings, and the smog caused by factories are the elements appearing in Piko’s paintings. The artist narrated the local stories with his unique language by re-disassembling and re-arranging ordinary objects and landscapes.