Lot 067
DODIT ARTAWAN
b. Indonesia, 1978
DIGGER, 2003
Signed and dated ‘Dodit Artawan 2003’ (lower right)
Acrylic on canvas
120cm x 260cm
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Singapore.
ESTIMATE RM 8,000 – RM 10,000 |
Digger illustrates the nonchalant fictional character Bugs Bunny positioned next to a large-sized token, which reads “Panitia Penggalian Dana RP.50.000” that translates as “Fundraising Committee” with the Indonesian Rupiah amount equivalent to MYR15.60. A pair of fighting cockerels is seen on the right. On each side of the canvas depicts a silhouette figure imbedded with domino patterns holding a shovel on the left and to the right, money-suited cards motif and a pickaxe – a miner’s essentials to represent the gold rush.
Dodit Artawan lives and works in Batubulan, Bali. Upon graduation from Indonesian Art Institute, Denpasar, Bali with a Bachelor of Fine Art in 1997, he started his practice as part of TAXU Art Clinic - an artist collective that created an upheaval in Balinese art scene for breaking the established hegemony of dominant value in the form of local identity by using traditional elements. Dodit has held 6 solo exhibitions regionally namely Larger than Life (非一般的尺度), Art Projects Gallery, Hong Kong (2014), Pool Party, TAKSU Gallery, Kuala Lumpur (2012), and The Pleasure of the Eye, Langgeng Icon Gallery, Jakarta (2008). He has also participated in numerous group exhibitions in various galleries and art spaces in Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, China and Italy. |
