For the first time since they graduated from the same art school, three Indonesian artists will be brought together by Singapore’s Mizuma Gallery for its latest show, “Multiple Junctures.”Agung Prabowo, Nurrachmat Widyasena, and Albert Yonathan Setyawan (or, to use their student moniker, Agugn, Ito, and Albert), all graduated from Indonesia’s Institute of Technology, Bandung, and “Multiple Junctures” is envisioned as a sort of reunion, checking up on the evolution of their practices since graduating from their alma mater, where Prabowo and Widyasena majored in printmaking and Setyawan in ceramics.Not only is each artist interested in the idea of the multiple, but the exhibition itself represents multiple junctures, in the artists’ school lives together, their growth as separate artists, and their placement together in this show.Of the three, Setyawan’s work may seem like an outlier. The connections between multiples and printmaking are obvious, but each ceramic needs its own personal shaping and molding. The artist arranges dozens or hundreds of these together until they begin to form patterns that make each single part an aspect of a larger whole.This sense of something handmade becoming something mass produced is also apparent in Prabowo’s work. The artist predominantly works in lino prints, which gives his works a contemporary, space-age feeling.Although their history together informs the exhibition in many ways, the work displayed will mostly be new.“Multiple Junctures” runs March 5-April 3 at Mizuma Gallery.
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