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Saturday, March 19, 2011

INDERAPURA series- artist's description

The Inderapura series stemmed from ismadi's love for nature in his home state of Pahang(Malaysia) through his gestural, spontanious and scratch effect. Even though the paintings are expressionistic, they have minimal color.

These abstract paintings use thick acrylic mixed with an encaustic wax medium or modelling paste. Colors are applied by the artist with brushes, palette knives and hands. The paint is often thrown at the canvas. The use of water sprayed blends the paint wildly and with great force around the canvas. It is scraped, wiped off with rags and reapplied repeatedly, building layers and adding needed smudges. Sometimes a dash of yellow ochre or burnt sienna is included to accentuate different sections of the work. The high energy with which these works were made pushes the boundaries of two-dimensional space and seems to rise off the canvas to meet the viewer. This series of inderapura paintings was started/beg since 1994 (manjalara series) and still continues until today in different series.


With his quite unique style and natural ability to be continually creative, Ismadi's abstract art paintings have been widely publicised and exhibited and earned his one-man shows both in the Malaysia and the abroad.

"Employing design in its simplest forms, madi's images invite viewers to share boundless pictorial spaces inspired by nature. His compositions draw from natural phenomena the motifs, patterns, textures, and colors he communicates through suggestive rather than representational pictures. Color is the central force of the artist's creative process, charging his work with symbolic meaning, and giving his paintings a physical presence that closes the distance between mind and matter, eye and spirit. The simple, direct vision of this artist should surprise and delight both the general public and collectors alike." – Ameruddin Ahmad,curator,National Art Gallery, Malaysia.

Inderapura series-White Scratch, mix media on canvas, 120 x 120cm, 2011


Inderapura series- Aura, mix media on canvas, 120 x 120cm, 2011

Inderapura series- From my sketch book, mix media on canvas, 120 x 120cm, 2011


Inderapura series- Against Nature's, acrylic, 150 x 150cm, 2011
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Inderapura series-Lambaian Cengal,acrylic,
150 x 150cm, 2011


Inderapura series-Gerbang Rimba(Forest gate),
acrylic on canvas, 120 x 300cm, 2011. 2pieces


Inderapura series-Takhta, acrylic, 150 x 210 cm, 2010.


Inderapura series-Flora Splash, 150 x 150 cm, acrylic, 2011. SOLD. 21 May 2011-Collection Mr Wayne, Lynas Kuantan.



Inderapura series, Red Butterfly, acrylic,
150 x 240cm (2panel), 2011


Inderapura series, Lata Jarum, acrylic, 120 x 120 cm, 2011


Inderapura series, Red Landscape, acrylic, 120 x 120 cm, 2011

Inderapura series, Salam Alam, acrylic, 150 x 210cm, 2011


Inderapura series, Jentayu, acrylic, 120 x 120cm, 2011


SKETCH-charcoal on paper






Ismadi sculpture(warrior series) solo exhibition,
Taksu Gallery, K.Lumpur.1995


I explore the intersection and tension of the natural and human constructed environments. I am interested in exploring how these environments affect us physically and psychologically. The history of our changing views and interpretations of our relationship with the natural world are a constant source of inspiration and surprise.

Ismadi's solo exhibition at Paris, 2009

My work changes from drawing to completion; this process of not knowing what will emerge is important to how I create. My analytical mind helps in developing ideas and research, but my best work occurs when I can focus on intuition, getting into the moment of creation: I create in spite of self-consciousness.


I understand my work through contradictions, imagining where it lays within broad spectrums such as nature / culture, intuition / reason, landscape / object, surface / form and process / product. My creative process also include contradictions: organic and synthetic forms, salvaged and new materials, planning and experimentation.



I strive to create such beauties in nature, mixtures of the memorable and unknown item found. The Pahang rural area inspires me with its “in-between areas”, areas between city and country, urban and rural, nature and culture. Differentiations between land, sea and sky change with cycles of weather and tides. Physical features do not meet expectations of geographic understanding, leaving a sense of the unknown. New composition and simplyfication landscapes are created, mixtures of concrete, sea, structures, hills, flora, coasts and fog.


Still,charcoal on paper,42x30cm,2011,artist collection.

Pending,charcoal on paper,42x30cm,2011,
Private collection.


Manjalara2(sketch),charcoal on paper,42x30cm,2011,
Halimi & Farah collection


Keris,charcoal on paper,42x30cm,2011,private collection


Sketch for Inderapura Series-February Muncul Lagi
(February comes again),charcoal on paper, 42x30cm,2011,
artist collection


Sketch for 'Inderapura series-Dia Masih Sembunyi'(still hiding),
charcoal on paper,42x30cm,2011, artist collection


sketch for 'Inderapura' series,'Cerita Dari Seberang'(from
a side story),charcoal on paper,42x30cm,2011


DRAWINGS ON PAPER-MIX MEDIA(STUDIES OF INDERAPURA)





at Florence,Italy


SKETCH






DRAWINGS & PAINTING 1994-2009






Painting can safely be explained as pleasant design and perceptual system. But sometimes we glimpse proof of the frailty of our contemporary belief in an orderly rational universe. This is when a painting can strike fear and loathing in our civilized composure. Painting as threat.



Painting as a diagram of inner experience draws a precarious line between the monde concrete we bump into and the unknowable dimensions of thought: the dance of madness and reason. In this reflexive visual ritual we recognize our own inner perceptions as we recognize a stranger's interpretation of the objective world. We remember the precognitive visual language of our species as it is reflected back to us from painting: our animal-mystic dreams. Our self-knowledge is more than the splashing about of electro-chemical storms in our brains. Mystery betrays the known.


with French artist Jiwan Singh, Paris.

Painting is a perceptually abstract construction. Paintings are visible as translations of sensory memory within the biological structure of the brain. But they are viewed and reconstructed in the mind's eye. Painting's sensual quality of colour and tactility act as emotional transmitters, re-attaching our isolated psyches to the spiritual identity of our species.

Together with Mala.ysian famous actor Dato' Mustapha Maarof and Datuk Aziz Satar,2010

Sometimes sublime reactions can be aroused in the viewer. Understanding what we perceive in a painting cannot be measured in space and time. The shifting representation of conventional truth resides on the surface of memory. The memory and history of perception is kept alive in the manual tracings of painting, recording the internal reality of our transient lives.

These paintings do not intend to lull the viewer with the security of images and text mediated through conventional photo-realism or French philosophy; rendering any content safely detached and academic. Nor is the viewer entertained with the wallpaper of abstract "compositions". These paintings are uneasy fragments existing between objective experience and subjective perception. The content of these paintings exists in the conceptual space between conventional representation and the boundaries of the invisible.
...by Rae Johnson



Catatan Series 2006 -2009

Ismadi’s on catatan series paintings and drawings are part of his own lineage of abstraction that has evolved aresolution in a range of gestures, movements and erasures. The appearance and meaning of the resolution has developed in the meandering progression of the creative process. Ismadi continues his investigation into the possibilities of the accidental along with the more deliberate forms and lines in both nature and the man made world. The labors are personal, but also come from a place of acutely art and music. Similar to a musical composition, ismadi slowly creates his paintings by building on and modifying story telling applied in previous layers. He embraces improvisational gestures and incidents allowing some of the previous marks to show in a palimpsest manner. Among this rich layering are fits and starts of lines, doodles and sketches. This action occurs in so many layers, that some images are barely perceivable, giving us insight into ismadi's thought process and leaves you searching for more clues. The paintings are a steady, engrossing read that gradually reveal their history and resolve. My art work on canvas involves the unintended or accidental effect of a mark or gesture drawn over a period of time and many paint layers. This allows the viewer to form their own conclusion based on each individual perception and past experience.


Teh tarik Lentok, charcoal/mix on paper,2008, Private collection KL


You Should Try!, mix on paper, 2006, Private collection KL


Kopitiam, oil on canvas, 2009,
Private collection KL.


Silat, oil on canvas, 2009,
Private collection KL.



The Meeting, oil on canvas, 2009,
Private collection KL.


Dangdut Wong Ah Jang, oil on canvas, 2009,
Private collection KL.


Abang Beca, oil on canvas, 2009,
Private collection KL.






SELECTED WORKS since 1994


Kelicap(bird's name), charcoal on paper,91x122cm,2007,artist collection

Sketch of Warrior series sculpture, pencil, 2004, artist collection.

Skecth, Hukum Alam, oil pastel on paper


From my sketch book, mix media, 152 x 152cm, 2007,
Private collection Paris



Between Truth and Lies, mixmedia, 152x152cm, 2007,
Private collection Berlin



Nyejadi series, Nyawa, mix media on
canvas,152x214cm,2007,artist collection


Nyejadi, mix on canvas, 152 x 152cm, 2007,
Private Collection Paris.


Manjalara, mix on canvas, 122 x 122cm, 2004,
Private Collection USA


Manjalara series, Panji, mix on canvas, 122 x 122cm, 2001,
Private Collection Berlin.


Manjalara series, Casbah, 122x122cm, 2004,
Private Collection USA


Wild-Wild Red,mix media,152x152cm,2006


Manjalara series-Belatok, acrylic,91x122cm,2004,
collection of Ong Gallery, Malaysia.


Manjalara series, Esok Naik Haji, mix media on
canvas, 152 x 214cm, 2001, artist collection



Abu dan arang, charcoal on canvas, 122x122cm, 2007,
Private Collection KL.


COLLABORATION WORKS
Sculptur, Nabil Roland Bucher, swiss artist-in collaboration with ismadi-December 2011 exhibition,PJ.


STUDIO,

Balai Seni Lukis Pahang, Jln kemunting, Kuantan, Pahang.




Thames Riverside, London, 2009


COLLECTION


•PERNAS INTERNATIONAL BHD.MINISTRY OF CULTURE, ARTS & TOURISM, MALAYSIA
•MALAYSIA MINING CORPORATION.CITY BANK, KL.SAUDAGAR SENI KL.BOX OFFICE
(MALAYSIA).SIRIM BHD, SHAH ALAM.AMERICAN EXPRESS, KL.SHANGRILA HOTEL, KL .BRIDGEPORT BHD KL.RASHID HUSSAIN BHD.HONG LEONG BANK KL.HONG LEONG SECURITIES KL.KLSE
HYATT REGENCY,KUANTAN.FSSR, UITM.JOHN HANCOOK INSURANCE.KL
RAHULAN ZAIN & ASSOCIATES.KL, SYED AHMAD IBRAHIM ARCHITEC.KL. ART FOLIO, KL. GLENEAGLE INTAN MEDICAL CENTRE, KL. WESTIN HOTEL, KL. PUTRA HOTEL, KL .RAFFLES HOTEL SINGAPORE.
GERMAN EMBASSY, KL.JAPAN CULTURAL CENTRE, KLTOH PUAN MARIA TUN DATO’ MUSTAPHA,
YB DATO DR NG YEN YEN, KL.DR AZIZ YAHYA, KLDATIN SENDRA CHONG, KLDATIN EVA MARIA ., KL.YB DATO SAHARUDDIN MOIN.DATO MAZNAH ABD JALIL.YB DATO MAZNAH BT MAZLAN.
DATO MD. SHARIF SHAMSUDDIN.MR YUSUF GHANI.HIJJAS KASTURI, KL.PAKHARUDDIN, KL.YM TUNKU NINA MANSUR,
TAKSU GALLERY, KL.YM TUNKU ZUBAIDAH, PENANG.JUN DATO BAHARUDDIN, TANGSI GALLERY,KL
CELIA, ART SALON, BANGSAR.IZAT BUKHARY ISMAIL BUKHARY.ERICA & ATORD,CROCODILE ROCK, KUANTAN.MR H. KUMAR KL.JAMES ONG, PENANG.ONG ART GALLERY, PENANG.NARZLAN EMIR, KL
NIKMAT ABDULLAH, KL.FIXCO ADVERTISING, SUBANG JAYA..SHINSOZO ORIENT MALAYSIA
KOLEJ IKIP, KUANTAN.KOLEJ SHAHPUTRA, KUANTAN.MR GERALD GREGOR, FRANKFURT.ADALIN GALLERY, FRANKFURT.DEUTCH BANK, BERLIN.DEUTCH BANK, FRANKFURT.PHILLIPS & WIFE, PARIS
JIWAN SINGH, PARIS.UNESCO, PARIS.THE ART LAND GALLERY, PARIS.MRS HEATHER, USA.
SMELLING SOCKS GALLERY, ROTTERDAM. DR.RAMPA, MALAYSIA, MR OTTO AMSTERDAM, RAFFLES HOTEL SINGAPORE, CITYBANK KL, PAVILLION HOTEL KL, STEPHEN MENON KL, DATO DR NAJIB DAWA, NATIONAL ART GALLERY KL, CHOYCD KL,MICHELA ITALY.


with the Minister of Culture, Arts and Tourim, Malaysia, 2005.




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