What is the difference between photography or art photography?
I was sitting down with my good photographer friend and we had quite an afternoon discussing our thoughts at the gallery.
Let's start at their history. I think although for many years both remain in their own domain, but first I had to explain to him why photography and art printed on glossy photo paper are seen as two different things.
There was a time a gallery in Kemang operating around 2005, specialized in photography, and boy they were exhibiting exceptionally fantastic pieces from American photographers, but it never really survived neither markets by the standards of the art passionanti or the photographer fanatics, so they had to close it down. Evidently it showed that Indonesian market was not ready to follow the global trends nor be contemporary enough to pick up various alternative arts besides modern painting and sculpture that year.
However these thoughts are changing. Thanks to the contemporary art age, there has been a moderate shift that made the two closer, bringing in closer art to alternative mediums to a new level.
Contemporary art movement in the past decade, claims the existence of concept above the validity of various mediums. The more thought-provoking or interesting the concept, the more exciting the piece. Art became, well, not just pleasing to the eyes, but a device to communicate a certain intention to the intellects.
Art requires brain, art is sexy!
Art on glossy papers, is Vik Muniz, whose works emerged since Venice Biennale to the recent 2009 Korea Art Fair or Cindy Sherman whose works are familiar to museum and gallery scavangers. These are real artists who choose to communicate through photography - and by that it means the camera as the device without showing off too much on the technique.
In 2005 I was lucky enough to meet a finalist of Jakarta Biennale, a photographer by the name of Nico Darmajungen, whose work was to die for. He also confessed the truth about his undying love of being an artist with this choice of medium, his tragic love story with his past model girlfriends, and his burning passion on the still pictures.
Somehow when I realise stories embedded within the work, the artwork becomes alive. At the end it's a visual novel - because you get to enliven the experience the artist was feeling.
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I was sitting down with my good photographer friend and we had quite an afternoon discussing our thoughts at the gallery.
Let's start at their history. I think although for many years both remain in their own domain, but first I had to explain to him why photography and art printed on glossy photo paper are seen as two different things.
There was a time a gallery in Kemang operating around 2005, specialized in photography, and boy they were exhibiting exceptionally fantastic pieces from American photographers, but it never really survived neither markets by the standards of the art passionanti or the photographer fanatics, so they had to close it down. Evidently it showed that Indonesian market was not ready to follow the global trends nor be contemporary enough to pick up various alternative arts besides modern painting and sculpture that year.
However these thoughts are changing. Thanks to the contemporary art age, there has been a moderate shift that made the two closer, bringing in closer art to alternative mediums to a new level.
Contemporary art movement in the past decade, claims the existence of concept above the validity of various mediums. The more thought-provoking or interesting the concept, the more exciting the piece. Art became, well, not just pleasing to the eyes, but a device to communicate a certain intention to the intellects.
Art requires brain, art is sexy!
Art on glossy papers, is Vik Muniz, whose works emerged since Venice Biennale to the recent 2009 Korea Art Fair or Cindy Sherman whose works are familiar to museum and gallery scavangers. These are real artists who choose to communicate through photography - and by that it means the camera as the device without showing off too much on the technique.
In 2005 I was lucky enough to meet a finalist of Jakarta Biennale, a photographer by the name of Nico Darmajungen, whose work was to die for. He also confessed the truth about his undying love of being an artist with this choice of medium, his tragic love story with his past model girlfriends, and his burning passion on the still pictures.
Somehow when I realise stories embedded within the work, the artwork becomes alive. At the end it's a visual novel - because you get to enliven the experience the artist was feeling.
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