indonesian_open FW: Invitation of exhibition Jumaadi at McK17

[Wittman, Leonie]

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If you will be in Sydney next Thursday ....see below

Leonie Wittman
Chief Learning Design Officer
Learning Design and Resource Development
Centre for Learning Innovation
NSW Department of Education and Training
51 Wentworth Road
Strathfield NSW 2135
 
Tel: 02 9715 8263
Fax: 02 9715 8279
leonie.wittman at det.nsw.edu.au

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Subject: Fwd: Invitation of exhibition Jumaadi at McK17

Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 15:58:58 +1100
Subject: invitation of exhibition Jumaadi at McK17

Dear Friend,
You are invited to attend the opening of Jumaadi in the City. An
exhibition of paintings by Indonesian born Sydney based artist Jumaadi 
in the heart of Sydney CBD.

Please join the artist for opening night drinks on Thursday 14th
December
5.30 - 7pm.  Level 3 Foyer, McKell Building, 2-24 Rawson Place Sydney 
(across from Central station, corner George Street and Eddy Avenue).

"The paintings of Jumaadi have been captivating an audience of artists
and collectors in Sydney for several years now. In the last year or so 
this small group has increased very considerably as these wonderful, 
evocative and absorbing works are exhibited in more and more galleries. 
His exhibitions are universally acclaimed for their poetic sensibility 
and dreamlike intimacy; the colour, delicacy and subtle drawing stop 
visitors in their tracks. Here is a world far removed from the loud, 
brash and superficial art scene they are so used to. Each painting by 
Jumaadi is a lovingly crafted object that initially appears simple, but 
which on closer scrutiny is a complex narrative rich in compositional 
invention and surreal suggestion. The individual, the family, the 
village, communal memory and the environment are interwoven with the 
larger issues of national identity, post colonialism and globalization. 
Is it not a source of delight that so small a brush can evoke so large a

raft of issues? Is it not also wonderful that by focusing on so intimate

a subject as his native village, Jumaadi is opening the eyes of 
Australia to the shared bonds of humanity that exist beyond the 
posturings of politicians and the strategies of those who seek to divide
us?

I have been closely observing his work for seven years now. As a young
man recently departed from Indonesia, he presented himself to us at the
National Art School as a student who exuded warmth, humanity, sincerity 
and intelligence. As his studies progressed, it was apparent to all the 
staff that we had in our midst a man who had access to a rich and deeply

felt imagery emanating from thousands of kilometres to the north, in his
native Java, and who was intent on using his new found skills to re-
create a vision of that land that was paradoxically both loving and 
searchingly critical."

Michael Downs  B.A. (Hons), M.F.A. (Hons)
Artist and Academic
Head of Postgraduate Studies, National Art School, Sydney, Australia


"Jumaadi does what look at first glance like quaint symbolist colourist 
paintings - but - well - you don't even have to scratch the surface - he
has bright coloured bits of text on the works - which even if your 
dylsexia is worse than mine - aesthetically blend in as nice marky bits 
of colour.
Which of course completely misses the point. Jumaadi migrated to Bondi 
from Indonesia - but has lived extensively and done art projects in and 
with various villages and indigenous communities right through the 
archipelago to our north. He's had shows of everything form straw men, 
to pictures, to installations - to all sort of things - and is 
fascinated by text, the roles of words, the nonsense of words, and the 
meaning making practices that both create and disrupt social cultures."

Margaret Mayhem
Art Critic: http://artandmayhem.blogspot.com



JUMAADI
0413 681 027

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