V-Room Bali now open
HFA is proud to announce the opening of V-Room Bali, an artists run space located at the main road of Teges in Peliatan, Ubud, Bali. The space is an annex to a beautiful Café and Soup place named KS Tiang and was initiated by visual artists Fendry Ekel and Marco Cassani in collaboration with Honold Fine Art. The art space is dedicated to serve as a platform for contemporary art and its related discourse in an intimate setting.
Starting in 2021, V-Room is showing the ongoing art program, titled Constellations, where a continuously changing display of works will be presented by monthly replacing and adding pieces of art to form new configurations and highlight the relations between individual works. Every art piece operates in a sort of relay, taking position within the room and eventually passing on the baton. The program’s intention is to foster a dynamic way of showcasing the works of art.
Fendry Ekel participating in Paris group show
Fendry Ekel is participating in Happy Together, a Paris group show curated by Gilles Balmet in collaboration with the City of Paris and SA Collection.
Marco Cassani - The Currency of Belief
Read Chief Editor Christina J. Chua’s chat with artist Marco Cassani at So Far online.
Sally Smart at Kayu
CONNECTED
group show //artists: Jumaldi Alfi, Marco Cassani, Fendry Ekel, Zohar Fraiman, Ivan Sagita, Sally Smart, Narcisse Tordoir, Shira Wachsmann//
CONNECTED is a collaboration of Honold Fine Art with Biasa from 30 November 2019 until 15 January 2020 in Biasa Glass Cube, Kerobokan, Bali. This group exhibition is presenting works of seven artists from different generations and nations, who, on a personal level are somehow related with one another. Despite obvious differences in the use of media, subject matter, visual language, and cultural background, all artists in the show share a strong conceptual fundament for their work and artistic practice as a common ground. Besides a deep interest in formal and technical aspects, the seven artists care a lot about the notion that every art work is part of a bigger picture.
The title 'Connected' is reflecting the motivation for the selection of art works in the show and the understanding that an art creation is an intellectual framework, in which the audience is facilitated to draw lines of connections between thoughts and experiences. The individual artist has been invited to include a particular work in this show which strongly relates to the artist’s other works; either as an inspiration for the creation of other works, born from earlier works or as a defacto fragment of a larger body of work.
In the belief that creating as well as viewing an artwork is a social event, the group show CONNECTED can be considered a starting point of a journey, which explores a wide network amongst artworks and authors.
Fendry Ekel Keynote Address
Fendry Ekel will be keynote speaker for the Southeast Asian Arts Forum 2019 at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore. His monumental painting installation Six Degrees of Separation (2015) will be presented on campus. Here is the abstract:
The School of Art
Art is hope. Hope is light. Light is beauty. Beauty is aesthetic. It makes you want to wake up the next day.
Art is a science to see the relation between things. We can train to see and to make those relations visible in an art school. The wish to do so is based on intense curiosity and one’s personal motive. Art school is a forum which functions as a facilitator of developing analytical and critical view. In art school we learn to start any action with the word “Why” instead of “How”. The question “Why” leads us to the creation of reason and value rather than the creation of products and needs. It brings life to the next level.
In the art school individual development is central. Art cannot be fabricated. It is the expression of an individual view. In this expression, aesthetic is the melting of many elements in the right balance. It is a tool to the artist in order to manifest the artist’s individual view of life.
Fendry Ekel, Berlin, 3 April 2019
CURRENCY curated by Lucie Fontaine
We are excited to share the news that Marco Cassani's artwork Fountain (Gunung Kawi) will be part of the group exhibition Currency at NOME gallery in Berlin.
Sally Smart in Adelaide
Adelaide Festival 2019 at the Lion Arts Centre presents Sally Smart ‘The Violet Ballet’.
Sustainability Through Differences at Kayu
Rebirth Forum and The Great Archipelago, an international group exhibition including contributions by Arahmaiani, Ashley Bickerton, Dora Budor, Marco Cassani, Rafram Chaddad + Rirkrit Tiravanija, Fendry Ekel, Michal Helfman, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Rochelle Goldberg, Filippo Sciascia, and Entang Wiharso organized by the Embassy of Italy, and the Italian Cultural Institute, in collaboration with Cittadellarte, Pistoletto Foundation, Kayu and Setiadarma House of Masks and Puppets.
Narcisse Tordoir & Fendry Ekel
Out Now! Museumcultuur Strombeek/Gent – Narcisse Tordoir & Fendry Ekel with texts by Michel Draguet, Astrid Honold, Frank Reijnders and Michel Dewilde ... designed by Studio Luc Derycke ... published by MER