Angki Purbandono, Indonesia’s most prominent
artist specializing in scanography – the process of producing artistic
digital images by means of an ordinary flat-bed image scanner – has now
taken his scan-art to the realms of noodles.
Placing
noodles directly onto the scanner’s glass is like setting up a mini
stage where the artist plays the stage director. Such a thought comes to
mind as one looks at the works currently on show at the Garis ArtSpace. Entering the space, one is first struck
by images of elegant dragons seemingly playing with noodles. In the
Western tradition, dragons are often thought of as awful monsters, but
in the Chinese tradition, they carry with them the meaning of luck and
welfare. The dragons in his scan-art, he says, are descendants of the
Chinese Golden Dragon, raised in Europe.
He lets them dance, with the noodle(s) falling into place playfully.
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