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Above: Saya Cinta Kamu, 2005, Acrylic on canvas, 100 x 130 cm x 2. Click on the image to view a larger version.

Arahmaiani's exhibition, entitled Lecture on Painting, Part I, accompanied by photographs by Bernice Chauly, will be on display at Vallentine Willie Fine art from 24 August 2005 to Saturday 10 September 2005.

The artist will give a talk on her work on Saturday, 3rd SEPTEMBER, 2005, at 3.30 pm. Tea will be served. RSVP Daniel

Vallentin Willie Fine Art,
1st Floor, 17 Jalan Telawi 3
Bangsar Baru
59100 Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
Tel: 60 3- 2284 2348
Fax: 60 3- 2282 5190
rachel@artsasia.com.my
www.artsasia.com.my
Southeast Asian Paintings & Works of Art

Gallery & resource room opening hours Monday - Friday: 12 noon - 6pm. Closed on Sundays and public holidays.

About the artist:

Coming soon to VWFA is one of Indonesia's most outstanding contemporary artists, Arahmaiani (b. Bandung, W.Java, 1961). Working mainly in performance and installation art since the early 80s, Arahmaiani has gained an international reputation for her often provocative work. Her Indonesian
roots, Western art training and humanist concerns has bought Arahmaiani to numerous exhibitions and performances, ranging from those held directly in streets protests in Indonesia, contemporary art museums in Asia, Europe and America, and notably to events as such as the pretigious 50th Venice
Biennale 2003 and the "Breaking Words" Performance Art Expo in Nagano, Japan (2004). More recently, Arahmaini has been working on art and social projects in Kuala Lumpur and Germany.

For her first solo exhibition in Malaysia, Arahmaiani will use this private gallery as a platform to question the mechanisms and politics that govern the making and selling of art. As the artist aptly puts it "I am not against the market, but I hate market fundamentalism, exploitation, monopoly - market terrorism!" To express this delicate negotiation between her needs and personal journeys as an artist with the pressures of mass consumerism, the artist will present a series of painted diptychs and also give a
performance. "I want to turn the medium of painting into performance. I want to transform the individual 'product' of painting for the commercial art world into a complex question of authorship and its marketability". Photographs by Bernice Chauly of Arahmaiani's performance 'body/text' will also be on view.

More information on Arahmaiani please visit
http://universes-in-universe.org/eng/islamic_world/articles/2003/arahmaiani

Last updated 31 August 2005.

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