KETUT TEJA ASTAWA
Teja Astawa (1971) is a Balinese
Artist who lives and works in Sanur, Bali. Teja graduated from the Indonesian
College of Fine Arts (STSI) in Denpasar in 1990. Astawa works in thematic
series that draw his inspiration from
subjects that range from the animals figure, to the wayang stories that
nurtured his childhood. His style is characteristically naive with a palette of
vivid colours, a childlike manner of rendering figures in flat and simplified
stylization, and a delightfully mischievous imagination.
Drawing from episodes, morality
tales and characters from Hindu epics and Balinese equivalent of Aesop fables,
Astawa brings to these stories that are the staple of Balinese art and image
making his personalized interpretations replete with comic touches.
Contemporary popular idioms weave through Astawa wayang paintings. Even so, in
Astawa treatment of wayang characters there remains a faithfulness to basic
wayang iconography that enables identification of the characters. Naivety as a
stylistic device in the history of Balinese art is first associated with the
Young Artists Style which emerged in the late 1960s in the Penestanan area near
Ubud. Astawa naivety is to be distinguished from the latter. Among young
contemporary Balinese artists, there are not a few who have developed a kind of
naive treatment. Astawa comic oeuvre is by distinction more childlike and
innocent, seemingly to enjoy an internal curiosity and humour about the mundane
things immediately surrounding him.
Solo exhibition
2013
TW(IN)SIDE,
at Kendra Gallery, Seminyak, Bali, Indonesia
2012
A Glimpse
Back Into The Past: Early Paintings of Ketut Teja Astawa. Art Temporary Space,
Plaza Senayan, Jakarta, Indonesia
2011
Fragments of Subconscious
Memory, Tonyraka Art Gallery, Ubud,
Indonesia
2009
Batman
Forever, Sunjin Gallery , Singapore
2008
Works Of
Ketut Teja Astawa, Gallery Roemah Roepa, Jakarta ,
Indonesia
Group exhibitions
2014
Bali: Return Economy, Fremantle Art
Centre, Perth, Australia
Low Stream, Indonesia-Korea
Contemporary Art Exhibition, at Jeju Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea
2013
Two Island, Indonesia-Korea
Contemporary Art Exhibition, Galeri Nasional, Jakarta
Imajining Indonesia, Tribute to S.
Sudjojono, Tonyraka Art Gallery, Ubud
Bali Art Fair, Bali Art Society,
Tonyraka Art Gallery, Ubud
2012
Painting@Drawings, Tony Raka Art Gallery, Bali,
Indonesia
2011
Fragments of Subconscious Memory,
Tonyraka Gallery, Ubud , Indonesia
Scope Basel Basel , Switzerland
2010
Return to the Abstraction, Tonyraka
Gallery, Ubud , Indonesia
Post Modern Rambling, Ganesha
Gallery Four Season, Jimbaran ,
Indonesia
Corner Kick, Tanah Tho Gallery, Ubud , Indonesia
Bazaar Art in Jakarta , Indonesia
2009
Balinese Kunst In Geur En Kleur, Nederlands Parfumflessen Museum Netherlands
Batman Forever, Sunjin Gallery , Singapore
2008
Pameran Perupa Bali "
at Montiq Gallery, Jakarta ,
Indonesia
11th Beijing Beijing
2007
Juxtapose, Gallery Ellcana, Jakarta , Indonesia
2006
Ganesha Gallery Four Season,
Jimbaran, Bali , Indonesia
2005
Art As Self Expresion, Santrian Art Gallery
2004
Mosaik Himpunan Pelukis Sanur,Santrian
Gallery, Sanur , Indonesia
Drawing New Harmony II, Rare Angon Gallery, Sanur ,Indonesia
10 Artist Introduce Themselves, 10
Fine Art Sanur, Bali , Indonesia
Auction, Swissotel the Stamford Singapore
The Journey Himpunan Pelukis Sanur,
Museum Puri Lukisan, Ubud , Indonesia
2003
TAIBlack, Dies Natalis STSI XXXVI at STSI
Denpasar , Indonesia
BIG Perupa Dalam 16, Art Center
Denpasar & Santrian Gallery Sanur ,
Indonesia
Pesta Kesenian Bali XXV, Art Center,
Denpasar, Indonesia
2002
Exhibition Himpunan Pelukis Sanur Soft Opening
Santrian Gallery at Santrian Gallery, Sanur ,
Indonesia
Perupa Dalam 16" at Gabrig Art
Gallery Sanur , Indonesia
2001
Taksu Bali, Gallery 678, South
Jakarta, Indonesia
Seni Rupa Bali
Kontemporer, Bentara Budaya, Jakarta , Indonesia
What II, Gallery Sembilan, Ubud, Bali , Indonesia
Himpunan Pelukis Sanur Exhibition, Balairung Dewi Sri Exhibition Hall Garuda
Wisnu Kencana, Jimbaran , Indonesia
2000
Refleksi Seni II, Darga Gallery, Sanur , Indonesia
1996
Exhibition at Canberra
Refleksi Seni '98, Darga Gallery, Sanur , Indonesia
1995
Kelompok Sebelas, Art Center Denpasar , Indonesia
Arnanda Tour, Kuta , Indonesia
1994
Kelompok Sebelas" at Darga
Gallery, Sanur
1993
Museum Seni Lukis Klasik Nyoman
Gunarsa, Klungkung
HUT II Kamasra Exhibition, STSI Denpasar ,
Indonesia
1992
Museum Sidik Jari, Denpasar , Indonesia
Seni Masa Kini, STSI Denpasar
, Indonesia
1991
Exhibition at Art Center Denpasar , Indonesia
Peksiminas, STSI
Denpasar , Indonesia
Dies Natalis STSI
Denpasar, STSI , Denpasar , Indonesia
Kelompok Lanjalan, Ubud , Indonesia
Museum Ratna Warta, Ubud , Indonesia
Award
2001
Finalist
Philip Morris Art Award Indonesia
Museum Collection
Der
Weltkulturen Am Schamainkai, Frankfurt, Germany
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