Sculpture and Craft Art

In that is often mass-produced, marginalized from the art conversation.

Sculpture and craft exhibition is displaying the 75 artists’s works, both from academic circles as well as autodidact, both young and old generations. The exhibition that displays various styles of sculpture and craft was initiated by Department of Art Craft ISI Denpasar. And it establish thanks to the cooperation between the Community Development Program I-MHERE ISI Denpasar with Bali Indonesian Sculptors Association (BIASA).

Compared with painting, sculpture and crafts are very rare finding a place to perform in exhibitions held by galleries in Bali. Sculpture and crafts are such as marginalized in art terminology. In Bali the sculpture and craft are already regarded probably as a craft art that mass produced.

Observing to this exhibition, we can get a lot of picture the map of sculpture and craft art in Bali. The art of sculpture and craft has still the certain uniqueness, which is created from the artist’s
creative imagination. That could be seen in the Ida Bagus Putu Sutama’s works entitled “Tiger Teeth” with the concept of the manger, a cremation in Ngaben ceremony in Bali.

Otherwise, by carrying the diversity, this exhibition presents various types of sculptures styles from the realist, surrealist, abstract, and contemporary. The art crafts also appeared charming with its visual diversity. It can be seen in the Wayan Sujana Suklu’s work, titled “Moon on Behind the Leaves “, showing relief natural panorama made from plate iron.

That’s it. The exhibition was at least able to cure our homesickness on creative works of sculpture and craft art. And similar exhibitions can be coming up in many galleries in Bali.