Nasirun
INDONESIA
CV in PDF

Cold contemporary art with similar styles all over the world. Featuring works that are at once universal and mainstream, they are all look alike; they call them art. Art is art. I believe that in advanced countries with their highly developed mind and technology, their people are capable of creating contemporary artworks that are relevant with the progress of time.

However, I was born in a developing country which has only its culture and its local genius heritage. I don’t think we can follow very modern thoughts.

If I follow the trending contemporary thoughts without real understanding, then I would be just like a supporting dancer in the background - celebrating art without any sense of cultural responsibility. Therefore I endeavour to show a work that looks like a product of modern technology (refrigerator) with traditional heritage kept inside. This is to say that traditional art and culture are imprisoned by the coldness of contemporary art which slowly is freezing them to death. The death of Traditional Arts.