Rootless
A Dream of Water and Distance
Antonella Pedetti – Galeri Salihara
Rootless, having no roots.
Somebody who has left her country, culture,
traditions, family, and all what represents the essence of a person.
Breaking your cultural roots implies losing
the north on aspects that most of humans consider fixed. I went through a
process losing these ties, to then find new grounds on where to build up my new
cultural connections to my art.
Like a tree, every person needs to have
roots, to fuel its passion and creativity, and for an artist this is vital in
the creation process.
A person cannot grow roots in any place, he
or she needs a fertile soil. I needed to create my own soil on and decided that
it was to be set on a fluid, mobile place.
- Rootless Introduction
Catalogue Exhibition -
Rootless – Exhibition
that supported by Embassy of the Argentine Republic, Republic of Indonesia. Saturday,
October 06, 2018 the opening exhibition started on 7 PM. It was my first
experience to attended the opening exhibition. Komunitas Salihara as exhibition
organizer provided online booking reservation system, it was very easy
accessible. The exhibition started from October 06 – 16, 2018 in Gallery of Komunitas
Salihara.
Actually, that
was my first time came to Komunitas Salihara. Komunitas literally means
community and Salihara came from the name of the street where Komunitas Salihara
located. This art center established since August, 08 2008. Komunitas Salihara consisted
of four main buildings that are Salihara Theater, Salihara Gallery, Anjungan
Salihara, and office space.
After the exhibition
introduction the visitor will found 12
Capitulos as the first artwork. Capitulos means chapter from Spain
language. You will see many figures in the artwork, mainly represented the women,
as that character of the artist. The paintings became part of her pains, of her
nostalgia, of her losses and victories, and therefore they become part of her
person and she become part of her artwork. For more explanation, it was about
the artist marriage, when she decided to move to other cities symbolize by
woman was bringing her suitcase, then either when she felt too strong with the
surrounded looked too small or felt too weak with the surrounded looked so big.
This artwork was really captivating, beside the mini figures of the artwork
looked really unique while that concept of mini figures inside the artwork will
be appeared nicely several times in this exhibition.
“12 Capitulos
50 x
50 cm
Mini
figures, glass, sand, stamps, paper, wire, photos, clock, mini canvas, nails,
acrylic cubes, acrylic on wooden box
2014
(Object)”
FYI,
acrylic means the plastic that the form looked like a glass, then the mean of
resin is latex that produced by many kinds of plants especially by conifers
tree.
“My dreams
became my real roots, and probably they were so, even before I became rootless.”
-Antonella Pedetti-
According to the
exhibition curator Asikin Hasan, artworks of Pedetti talks about bigger space
and small scale as human being in the universe. This concept could be found in Dreams of Roots and Sawah artworks. Especially related to 12 Capitulos, the artist wants to spreading the main message of this
exhibition that is to find your own way
(dreams).
“Part
of Dreams of Roots –
Twelve chapters of a woman’s life, different
scenes of her own life and artistic journey.
60 x
120 cm
Acrylic,
mini figures, and resin on canvas
2018”
“Part
of Sawah (Rice Field)
60 x
120 cm
Acrylic,
mini figures, and batik fabric on canvas
2015”
“Part
of Life at the Rice Fields
170
x 150 cm
Acrylic,
mini figures, and batik fabric on canvas
2017”
Six masks each
representing a different place.
Montevideo
(Uruguay), the place of birth, a simple pure mask; Buenos Aires (Argentina),
where the artist universe is created; Wiesbaden (Germany), an expansion of the
artist world and its mental discovery; Quito (Ecuador), a side move forward;
Jakarta (Indonesia), the discovery of a new culture; Future, unknown and to be
developed. This masks concept made me remember the similar concept of Cirebon mask
culture, which is each step of life has a specific different mask to representing.
“Six Faces of a City
280
x 200 cm
Batik
fabric, acrylic, and resin
2018”
Postcard #1 – Wax Dreams, 2018
Postcard #2 – Ancient Dreams, 2018
Postcard #3 – Windy Roots, 2018
Postcard
#4 – Wanita Regen –
(Woman
in Bayern District, Germany
300
x 250 cm
Figure,
resin, and ropes
2018
(Installation)
“Antonella Pedetti records natural
phenomenon from one continent to another. From there, she builds various images
: imaginary lines, geometric fields, and coil shapes. Some remind us of the
energy of the sea, rivers, mountains, forests, rice fields, waterfalls, rain,
clouds, and so on. Others manifest in free and unique form, unexpected gifts
obtained from the reality of nature itself.” – Asikin Hasan – In House
Komunitas Salihara Fine Arts Curator (Rootless, in Scale and Spaces, Curatorial
Notes).
“Antonella Pedetti
Opening
Rootless Exhibition – Galeri Salihara”
“Rootless Exhibition Catalogue”
- Antonella Pedetti-
Antonella
Pedetti is a visual artist and architect born in Montevideo that grew up in
Argentina, from Italian origin, with works that can be found in more than
twenty cities in all five continents. Antonella grew up artistically between
Buenos Aires, Frankfurt, Quito, and Jakarta, and her work has been exposed and
reviewed in Latin America and Europe, and now for the first time in Indonesia.
She studied in Buenos Aires, at the National School of Fine Arts “Prilidiano
Pueyrredon” and Architecture at the Buenos Aires University. Her style is in
continuous evolution, as it is her context, that produces an incessant
metamorphosis; a constant in her life. A lifelong relentless search to
establish her own cultural background and heritage as painter and human being,
her work is a manifest of the washing up of cultures into a new form of
personal identity.
For further information :
Antonella Pedetti
Email : antonellapedetti@yahoo.com
Website : www.antonellapedetti.com
Komunitas Salihara
Jl. Salihara No. 16
RT.006/001
Jati Padang, Pasar Minggu
South Jakarta 12520
+6221-7891-202
Bibliography :
·
Rootless exhibition catalogue
·
Personal photos and documentation
·
Personal impression and experience
·
Alfari, Shabrina. “Mengenal Lebih Dalam Tentang
Acrylic”. November, 05 2018. https://www.arsitag.com/article/mengenal-akrilik
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