In collaboration with Silverlens Galleries, ROH Projects is pleased to present a group show curated by Gary-Ross Pastrana, that brings together three celebrated artists from the region: Arin Dwihartanto Sunaryo (Bandung); Maria Taniguchi (Manila) and Patricia Perez Eustaquio (Manila). The three artists’ distinctive accumulative acts in their respective studio practices display an in- depth exploration of the physical properties of their chosen materials.
Through the utilization of photography and video as supplementary layers, Arin Dwihartanto Sunaryo, who collects fragments such as resin, minerals, volcanic ash particles, creates a multilayered expansion of painting to embody his gestures and document the process which had taken place, serving the purpose of a relic: preserved and hardened through time.
Maria Taniguchi’s works demonstrates similar sensitivity towards the slow-formation of nature’s elements by contrasting it with her machine-like approach in creating objects (‘brick paintings’), in order to indicate a new kind of relic, one that is wrought through human persistence and concentration.
She also shows a video that incorporates elements of visual deconstruction through the tactile addition and removal of layers.
With her graphite drawings on paper, Patricia Perez Eustaquio examines what has become part of her own nature – the artist’s studio and the materials that surround her, as she thoroughly meditated the accumulation of a variety of paint blobs through a series of photographs she had taken. She then articulates these images on fabric, revealing a further nuance, sensitivity, and tactility to how were works may be experienced.
Whether fragmented, layered, or accumulated, the processes involved in their works are accompanied by a kind of certainty—that the ideas behind them are derived from a close inspection of their materials. As relics, it could be said that their works have become the vestiges of our time: meticulously man-made yet ardently inspired by nature. And bringing their works together may reveal facets that belong to the Southeast Asian region in terms of how the three artists featured, namely Sunaryo, Taniguchi, and Eustaquio, continually explore materials, methods, and concepts to arrive at new forms.
Artists
Born 1978, Bandung, Indonesia
Lives and works in Bandung, Indonesia
Arin Dwihartanto Sunaryo received a Bachelor’s Degree in Painting from the Bandung Institute of Technology (2001) and a Master’s of Fine Art at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London (2005). Sunaryo is interested in the utilization of resin as a medium that captures minerals, pigments, and other particles in various states of flux within a sense of stasis. Working initially with more industrial pigments, he has more recently worked with volcanic ash, perishable food ingredients, as well as crude palm oil and converted them into his own distinctive pigments.
Sunaryo’s work has been featured in numerous exhibitions in Southeast Asia, Europe, the UK, and USA, including No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA (2014). Selected solo exhibitions include Arin Dwihartanto Sunaryo: New Paintings at Art Basel OVR: Portals presentation by ROH Projects (2021); ARGO at Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK (2019); after taste at Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney, Australia (2017); Silent Salvo at ARNDT Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2015); and group shows include External Entrails at Silverlens New York, New York, USA (2022); IRL at Art Basel OVR: 2020 (2020); Ripples: Continuity in Indonesian Contemporary Art at Taipei Dangdai, Taiwan (2019); These Painter’s Painters at ROH Projects, Jakarta, Indonesia (2018); iris at Silverlens Galleries, Manila, Philippines (2018); ω at Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong (2017); Biennale Jogja XIV: Age of Hope in Yogyakarta, Indonesia (2017); Constituent Concreteness at Mizuma Gallery, Singapore (2017); Lines of Flight at Gallery Exit, Hong Kong (2017); Lompat Pagar/Crossing Borders at National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia (2015); Marcel Duchamp in Southeast Asia, Equator Art Project, Gillman Barracks, Singapore (2012); and Manifesto, National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia (2008). Sunaryo was nominated as a Finalist for Best Emerging Artist using Painting by the Prudential Eye Awards in 2015; and a Finalist in the Sovereign Asia Art Prize in 2010.
Copyright belongs to The Artists
Curated by Gary-Ross Pastrana
Photography by ROH Projects
Courtesy of The Artists, Silverlens Galleries, and ROH