Studio ROSIDJl. Cigadung Raya Tengah No. 42/2
Babakan Jami
Bandung 40134
INDONESIA
Telp. +62 22 2513878, +62 22 2516651
Mobile +62 8122456472
Location of Studio ROSID is in the hill of Bandung, West Java. This studio is built by Rosid since 2000. Rosid is a painter. He does his art works in this studio. This studio has progressed in development as like a gallery, guest house and library.
West Java is one of provinces in Indonesia. It has been long known for its beauty of nature and a great potential of arts and culture spread out in 25 cities of the region.
The province of West Java has national´s excellent reputation. During the Dutch occupation, the city of Bandung as the capital used to be known as Paris of Java around 1960.
Topographically, Bandung is low and hilly with steep and deep valley, the weather is cool. The Dutch made use of this fertile land as tea and rubber estates, we can still enjoy the panorama of the plantation in Priangan land. In early times, the region was under the rule of Padjadjaran Kingdom.
Bandung is known for the growth of arts and aesthetics, not only traditional form but also in contemporary of art, which is very strong of discourse. And here is one of the important place where the history of visual art come from.
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The New Hero Object in the Tradition Drawing Portrait
Rosid is one of artists who occupied the tradition of portrait visual art (including sculpture tradition in celebrating many specific figures).
In this case he represents the drawing tradition with object precision, pursues details aspect, light; dark-bright, and volume, more over expression of the object.
These counted as the long journey of the practice of portrait painting and models; on that time special (character) or important figure was directly painted on the spot then.
But since camera was found, artists often use it as auxiliary tool to achieve detail aspect of his painting object, including Rosid who started the empathy to the object he found anywhere, in this case by his camera.
Even the grouping/cropping technique he chose was adaptation of the way of work of a photographer.
That was done to give specific emphasize to the object he tool or painted which is the strategy of his art communication to attract the public or appreciator of sympathy-emphaty, so quickly to the work by the magnified object technique.
In the beginning this tradition is depict portray figure of character that describe a specific glorious.
For instance the figure of ruler, rich men, most achievementmen and knights; in this case the figure who has influenced power or social position in the society (politic as well), then kings, nobles, regent etcetera often appear.
Here hedonistic is celebrated by process subliming the materialism by using the measure of worldly social hierarchy.
Mostly adults are the ones who appear.
Figures of women, especially children which are not assumed to have important position in the circle of culture appear just a little.
There was portraits of the poor, homeless, sellers in a traditional market, mother’s figure and so on, so there appeared “new heroes”; ordinary people who run hard live and trying to protect, inspire and continues the struggle of this nation.
They are minor, reflective, inspired and sometime symbolic figures, heroes of our society that we can find everyday.
It is so in Rosid’s work.
Isn’t the history can be repeated?
May be, but surely, with the new context, new media, and new way of expression. So drawing artwork of Rosid is on the history of portrait visual art with new atmosphere.
--By Ardiyanto, an independent curator and artist--
Artist Statement
I am trying to run my art as the way it is, simple and get along with personal dynamic in the changing place and time. Of course I keep my orientation up by maintaining consistency, commitment, and deep involvement.
I am concentrating my art on the journey of endless time and do my best in trying to use and fulfill it with work and keep learning.
I got inspirations from portrait painting practices to reveal various human characters and their expressions. I am trying to stick on those themes. I am too attempting the changing and development according to the expression need, art communication and theme choice, symbol, technique and media itself.
From the past until now, I have been trying to always learn with many materials and drawing techniques or paint with various artists in the various places. I sometimes invite my partner and trying to show my work to get many comments and critics. They are needed to my future increases.
By those figures I am trying to linked with context by its outer figure, although the development tends to existence and figure’s problem itself. Then choosing of the object can be the important element for me to recognize myself as a personal continuously, therefore the objects on my work are for learning and contemplation, at least for me myself as an artist and ordinary human.
Rosid
Born in Parigi, Ciamis, West Java
February 15, 1969
--Translated from Indonesian by Septina Ferniati--
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