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Sidik W Martowidjojo Illuminate Art Exhibition

December 16, 2020
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Painting has always been a valuable artwork since the first recorded history. Besides its high monetary value, each painting has its own signature, a timeless uniqueness to it to be embraced by every generation. The more distinct signature a painting has, the more value is added to it. Set for examples are “Monalisa” by Leonardo da Vinci, the works of Van Gogh, Picasso, Basuki Abdullah and Affandi. In Indonesia, Bali has been known as one of the creative cities producing a lot of high quality artworks. For the last few years, the gross of exporting paintings worldwide has been really promising.

 

In response to Indonesia’s art-culture richness and the development of the industry, Kadin Indonesia is going to continue encouraging further development in the country, especially through paintings. Their latest support in the industry was an Art Exhibition Road Show, held in a number of cities throughout the world, with the theme of “Illuminate”. They started the exhibition in Museum Nasional Jakarta from 2 to 20 March 2017. KADIN Indonesia dedicated the exhibition for showcasing paintings of Sidik W. Martowidjojo, as one of globally renowned Indonesian painters. His works have received numerous international awards, such as from Louvre International Art, France; National Art Museum of China (NAMoC), Beijing; among all others.

 

Sidik has been raised and taught with Chinese culture since he could remember, thus highly influencing his style and technique in paintings. In “illuminate” painting exhibition, Sidik showcased his Chinese-based paintings with influences from western painting technique and deep social-cultural understanding of Indonesian local culture.

 

In recent human civilisation, the shadow of duality has become a universal phenomenon. This duality refers to juxtaposed conditions such as day and night, light and darkness, earth and sky, good and bad, men and women, etc. It was never recorded the period of time in which men developed this kind of conscience in their minds.

 

By the end of 2016, Sidik has opened a museum dedicated to his works, located in Ndalem Kraton Ngayogyakarta area. Sharing the same timeline with the opening, Jin Hong Yue, the Chinese Culture Counselor, said that Sidik has given a valuable contribution towards Chinese-Indonesia cultural exchange with decades of practices and developments, reflected through his ideas as well as signature style in paintings. To this moment, his works in exhibition are still looking to develop even more towards the “bright light of the universe.”

 

 

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