Published as a supplement of Solo paintings exhibition by Putu PW Winata at BIASA ArtSpace Ubud
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exhibition period
17 June - 5 August 2023
All works of art by artist, used by permission
Photograph artworks and artidt profile by Aji Mahareshi
Art director Igo Blado
Photograph artworks and artidt profile by Aji Mahareshi
Curatorial words by Arif Bagus Prasetyo
English translation by Anthea Carmen Bidgood
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On Putu’s canvas, we can feel the atmosphere of nature, we can remember natural phenomena, we even know (from the title of the painting, among others) that the painter talks about nature, but we cannot necessarily see nature.
Putu does not paint nature, he paints feelings about nature.
Arif Bagus Prasetyo Curator of fine arts, living in DenpasarJoie de Vivre a la Putu PW Winata
Oleh Arif Bagus PrasetyoTatapan Putu Winata terarah ke alam. Tema lukisan Winata adalah fenomena alam dan lanskap. Dengan ungkapan visual ekspresif, Winata menghadirkan tarian garis dan warna yang bermuara pada citraan abstrak yang sangat mengingatkan pada objek atau gejala alam seperti pohon, bunga, tebing, angin dan sebagainya. Meskipun demikian, sesungguhnya sang pelukis tidak meniru alam. Ia tidak berupaya menyalin alam ke kanvas. Ia bukan subjek yang menghadapi alam sebagai objek untuk ditangkap, dikerangkeng, dan dibekukan dalam lukisan. Alih-alih, dalam proses melukisnya, Winata seakan-akan “larut” ke dalam alam dan membiarkan imajinasinya tentang alam mengalir bebas seturut dorongan intuisi. Meninggalkan hukum realisme dan perspektif, ia seakan membebaskan alam untuk tumbuh di kanvasnya. Alam dalam lukisannya bukanlah potret, melainkan sebentuk kehidupan yang dinamis dengan segala kemungkinan dan semua yang tak terduga. Lukisan Winata menggemakan pandangan yang meletakkan manusia dan alam di posisi yang setara. Sikap yang tidak menaklukkan alam di bawah hukum manusia.
Putu Winata's gaze is directed to nature. The themes of Winata's paintings are nature phenomena and landscapes. With expressive visual expressions, Winata presents a dance of lines and colors that lead to abstract images that are very reminiscent of objects or natural phenomena such as trees, flowers, cliffs, wind and so on. However, in fact the painter did not imitate nature. It does not attempt to copy nature onto the canvas. He is not a subject who faces nature as an object to be captured, trapped, and frozen in painting. Instead, in the process of painting, Winata seems to "dissolve" into nature and let his imagination about nature flow freely according to intuition. Leaving the laws of realism and perspective, he seemed to free nature to grow on his canvas. Nature in his paintings is not a portrait, but a dynamic form of life with all the possibilities and all the unexpected. Winata's paintings echo the view that places humans and nature on an equal footing. An attitude that does not subdue nature under human laws.
cuplikan karya Putu PW Winata “Bougainvillea no 4” acrylic on canvas, 35 cm x 25 cm, 2023
Lukisan PW pada dasarnya tidak merujuk pada sesuatu yang konkret yang ada di luar lukisan itu sendiri. PW tidak berusaha merepresentasikan dunia konkret. Ia tidak “memindahkan” alam konkret ke dalam kanvas atau kertas. Lukisannya menjauhi kekonkretan. Namun, dengan melukis harapan, PW secara paradoksal ternyata juga mendekati kekonkretan. Ia mengkonkretkan sesuatu yang abstrak, yaitu harapan. Ia memberi bentuk pada harapan. Lukisannya membuat harapan jadi berwujud, memiliki bentuk yang dapat dilihat.
Dalam karya-karyanya, PW berbicara tentang harapan dengan bahasa artistik yang merayakan kehidupan. Lukisannya dijiwai gairah hidup yang meluap-luap dan meletup-letup dalam perayaan riuh garis dan warna. Didominasi warna-warni cerah dan sapuan atau goresan cat yang seakanakan menari setengah kesurupan, di ambang genting antara kesadaran dan ketidaksadaran, karya PW menggemakan joie de vivre, kegirangan yang dilepasbebaskan.
Bidang lukisan PW bagaikan panggung pertunjukan kosmis yang mementaskan tarian energi. Elemen-elemen visual bertemu dan bercerai, bersenyawa dan berselisih. Warna dan garis meledak dan meluruh, memuai dan menyusut, mencair dan memadat. Komposisi abstrak PW mengingatkan pada suatu drama kosmis yang menyemaikan benih-benih kehidupan di ladang bintang atau lahan subatomik.
Dipandu intuisi, PW mengorkestrasikan warna dan gerak menjadi gubahan visual unik yang terasa liar sekaligus terkendali, bebas tapi terukur, acak sekaligus terstruktur. Citra pada lukisannya tampak menyodorkan kekacauan, tapi serentak dengan itu mengulurkan irama dan asosiasi yang menautkan ingatan kita pada sesuatu yang samar-samar dapat dikenali: lanskap, pohon, awan, dsb. Setiap karya seperti bercerita tentang proses terbentuknya sesuatu dari momen berenergi tinggi yang karut-marut, ketika daya-daya liar berkuasa. Sesuatu yang wujudnya dapat diidentifikasi tampak samar-samar tumbuh dari gejolak chaotic. Ada suatu proses transformasi dari alam energi yang labil menjadi alam materi yang stabil.
cuplikan karya Putu PW Winata “Morning Song no 1” 25 cm x 35 cm, akrilik di atas kanvas, 2023
PW’s paintings basically does not refer to anything concrete which exists outside the painting itself. PW does not seek to represent the concrete world. He does not “transfer” concrete nature onto his canvas or paper. His paintings shun concreteness. However, by painting hope, PW is paradoxically also close to concreteness. He concretizes something abstract, namely hope. It gives shape to hope. His paintings make hope tangible, it gives hope a form which can be seen.
In his works, PW speaks of hope in an artistic language that celebrates life. His paintings are imbued with a passion for life that overflows and explodes in a vibrant celebration of lines and colors. Dominated by bright colors and strokes or smears of paint that seem to dance in a half trance, on the precarious threshold between consciousness and unconsciousness, PW’s work echoes joie de vivre, the joy that is released.
The field of painting PW is in, is like a stage for a cosmic show that performs an energy dance. Visual elements meet and separate, support and contradict each other. Colors and lines explode and spread, expand and contract, melt and condense. PW’s abstract composition is reminiscent of a cosmic drama which sows the seeds of life in fields of stars or in subatomic grounds.
Guided by intuition, PW orchestrates color and motion into unique visual compositions that feel wild yet controlled, free but measured, random yet structured. The imagery in his paintings seem to convey chaos, but at the same time there is rhythm and association which links our memories to something that is vaguely recognizable: landscapes, trees, clouds, etc. Each art piece is like telling a story about the process of creating something from a chaotic high-energy moment, when wild forces reign. Something whose form was identifiable seemed to be vaguely growing from the chaotic turmoil. There is a process of transformation from an unstable energy realm to a stable material realm.
excerpt from the work of “Bougainvillea no 1”, 35 cm x 25 cm, acrylic on canvas, 2023 by Putu PW Winata
PW secara kreatif membengkokkan seni lukis lanskap tradisional. Ia menafsirkan ulang Impresionisme dan Pascaimpresionisme. Menyerap tenaga Pointilisme dan Action Painting. Membenturkan hasrat representasi dan semangat abstraksi. Hasilnya adalah lukisan-lukisan “lanskap” dinamis yang unik, segar, dan penuh warna.
Di kanvas PW, kita bisa merasakan suasana alam, kita dapat teringat pada fenomena alam,
kita bahkan tahu (dari judul lukisan, antara lain) bahwa sang pelukis berbicara tentang alam, namun kita belum tentu bisa melihat alam.
Putu tidak melukis alam.
Ia melukis perasaan-perasaan tentang alam.
Dalam melukis, PW memang banyak terinspirasi alam. Namun ia tidak melukis alam. Alam, atau ingatan maupun kesan tentang alam, hanya merupakan semacam “jalan masuk” baginya untuk menjelajahi kedalaman dunia batinnya dan menuangkannya sebagai ciptaan baru pada kanvas atau kertas. Meskipun demikian, alam yang mengilhaminya itu tidak menghilang dalam lukisan abstrak yang merekam gerak jiwa sang pelukis. Alih-alih, alam justru menyembul dalam lukisan dengan wajah sepenuhnya baru, dengan segala kesegarannya, seakan-akan baru dilihat untuk pertama kalinya. Alam seolah menjadi visi keindahan ideal tertinggi bagi PW. Alam menjadi simbol dari energi kreatif itu sendiri.
Arif Bagus Prasetyo Kurator seni rupa dan penyair, tinggal di Denpasar. dikutip dari tulisan kuratorial pameran tunggal Putu PW Winata “Seeds of Light” di D Gallerie, 2 April - 2 Juni 2022, Jakarta, Indonesia cuplikan karya Putu PW Winata “Bougainvillea no 3” acrylic on canvas, 35 cm x 25 cm, 2023
PW creatively bends traditional landscape painting. He reinterpreted Impressionism and PostImpressionism. Absorb the power of Pointillism and Action Painting. It clashes the desire for representation and the spirit of abstraction. The result is dynamic “landscape” paintings that are unique, fresh, and colorful.
On Putu’s canvas, we can feel the atmosphere of nature, we can remember natural phenomena, we even know (from the title of the painting, among others) that the painter talks about nature, but we cannot necessarily see nature.
Putu does not paint nature. He paints feelings about nature.
When painting, PW is inspired by nature. However, he did not paint nature. Nature, even memories or impressions of nature, are only a kind of "entrance" for him to explore the depths of his inner world and pour it as a new creation on canvas or paper. Nevertheless, the nature that inspired him did not disappear in abstract paintings that recorded the movement of the artist's soul. Instead, nature appears in the painting with a completely new face, in all its freshness, as if it had been seen for the first time. Nature seems to be a vision of the highest ideal of beauty for PW. Nature becomes a symbol of creative energy itself.
excerpt from the work of “Dalam Sunyi” 150 cm x 120 cm, acrylic on canvas, 2023 by Putu PW Winata Arif Bagus Prasetyo Curator of fine arts, living in Denpasar. quoted from the curatorial writing of Putu PW Winata's solo exhibition “Seeds of Light” at D Gallerie, April 2nd - June 2nd, 2022, Jakarta, Indonesia
Bougainvillea no2
35 cm x 25 cm | acrylic on canvas | 2023
Bougainvillea no3
35 cm x 25 cm | acrylic on canvas | 2023
Bougainvillea no4
35 cm x 25 cm | acrylic on canvas | 2023
Bougainvillea no5
35 cm x 25 cm | acrylic on canvas | 2023
The Morning Songs no1
25 cm x 35 cm | acrylic on canvas | 2023
Menyepi
150 cm x 120 cm | acrylic on canvas | 2023
Memilih Hening
200 cm x 120 cm | acrylic on canvas | 2023
Romansa Malam
200 cm x 180 cm | acrylic on canvas | 2023
