Jumaldi Alfi, Melting Memories, Mooi Indie #02, 2012. Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy the artist and Primo Marella Gallery
Jumaldi Alfi
Never Ending Lesson
16 May – 28 June 2013
at Primo Marella Gallery, Milan
Jumaldi Alfi (Indonesia, 1973) is mostly known for the compelling iconography of visual signs reflecting existential and spiritual experience on both an individual and collective level. Creating his own code of images, the artist draws on a wide scope of cultural references, from objects of the natural world, to Renaissance paintings, to the childhood memories of family life. The visual effect is at once mysterious and intimate.
Through his artworks, Alfi is reminiscent of his home country modern and contemporary art historic roots. In Melting Memories series, the artist relies on the “Mooi Indie†colourful style, better known as “Indonesia Molekâ€, wide expressed during the Dutch colonisation and characterized by a pastoral poetry, featuring those landscapes which were pretty typical of Dutch India at that time. [read the full text here]
Primo Marella Gallery
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20159 Milano – Italy
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Jumaldi Alfi, Melting Memories/How To Explain, 2013. Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy the artist and Primo Marella Gallery
Jumaldi Alfi, Blurred Realities, 2013. Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy the artist and Primo Marella Gallery
Jumaldi Alfi, Fake, 2013. Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy the artist and Primo Marella Gallery
Jumaldi Alfi, Never Ending Lesson, Exhibition view, 2013 Courtesy the artist and Primo Marella Gallery