gallery ismadi: a vist by James Ong

Ismadi tells about his work

My visual work is my way of speaking. My way of being in the world. My source is desire. Longing for gestures I have not previously made. Gestures that speak about how I look at the people, life surround and the world from my reality. I am talking about the living world in its loneliness. Its separateness. In its being different. Without land, without origin. Suffering. Loving. Vulnerable, yet grand: strange! That mystery I want to show.
The beauty of nature and the relationship between humans and life are to me an endless source of inspiration. I work from a non- thoughtful rough flow of lines and gestures. A game where I surrender to a kind of inner music. All images are notes of the same music which cannot exist without each other.

I myself am the outsider. The observer. The spectator who intuitively registers the things that hit me emotionally and are existential for me. As an artist I try to get a grip on that reality.

This desire arises in an almost haunting way and is my constant motivation for my work. This often happens on canvas in large format. The gravity of that search is visible in my large paintings. Often it is just not what I meant and then I do it again and again and again. You can see that struggle and despair. So I am vulnerable in my work.

On the other hand there is the playful side of the non-reflecting gestures that constitute images which I am often amazed about. It is a game. Everything is possible. I just follow my hand without thinking. In a state of apparent emptiness I surrender to a kind of inner music. Each new line and stroke is my own creation. Later I am sometimes surprised by the strange creatures that appeared. Creatures that have something seems like characteristic of a human being and life. As if they merge.

When paint with oil on canvas I feel more free as when I am draw on paper. All of this works have been done through sketches studies....but the actual painting sometimes its not really same as sketches. its only my studies!

For all, Enjoyyyy...

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Tuesday, July 17, 2012

a vist by James Ong

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