Fine Art
Painting - Installation - Art Video
Anggit tried a lot of different medias to communicating her ideas through art. She tried wide range of drawing/painting medias such as pencils, pens, markers, gouache, acrylic, oil paint, watercolour, charcoal, batik, Korean traditional paints, etc. She explored different painting base such as different kinds of paper, wall, silk, cloth, glass, canvas, as well as digital media such as animation, photography, videography to widen her horizon in art.
As Anggit shows strong interest in different ways of communicating her art, crafting and building things, she often combines paintings with art videography and installation. She enjoys creating her own unique space where her art interlaced each other.
She is strongly influenced by artists from different art disciplines, who are from different nationalities and background. Her art is mixture of her unique individual, her mixed Indonesian root with western and oriental influence as result of her study abroad. Her inspiration comes from personal life experiences, social issues, culture, philosophy and nature.
CLOUDS
&
SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS
solo exhibition
Clouds & Self-Consciousness is a very personal project. It explores things buried deep inside my unconsciousness, researching possible reasons why I do things as I do, to achieving self-consciousness. The paintings development follows Ludwig Binswanger’s Daseinsanalysis theory of three human relationships that must be well integrated in order to live a good life: me and myself (Eigenwelt), me and universe (Umwelt), and me and others (Mitwelt).
In Eigenwelt I analysed my personal intimate connection with clouds, that brought me back to my childhood memories. Unnatural imaginative colour used is a way for me to break out from my trauma, where I as a child full with imagination, was forced by academic institutions to paint things realistically as it seen from adult’s perspective. The colourfulness is also a representation of my own personal background of ‘colourful’ ethnicity, religion, languages and nationality. It is also to portray Indonesia as a country that is very diverse in nature and ethnic groups. Eigenwelt is me that is overseeing myself to achieve a sense of awareness of my own action.
In Umwelt, clouds represent the universe. A symbol of something beyond me. A symbol of things that keep changing and never be the same. Something that is part of noumena, that is beyond human reach and cannot be explained. Therefore it preserves its own mystery. The realisation of Tao’s teaching about balance and harmony importance life is also presented. Combining wet and dry brushwork, light and hard colouring. It is also demonstrating the importance of blank space, not just in painting but also in life. Contrast between exist and non-existing, of how nothingness is to compliment fullness. That emptiness and loneliness are feelings as much needed. Umwelt is relationship of me and the universe, how I find meaning in it.
In Mitwelt, my family is the ‘others’. Being away most time from my loved ones for the last ten years is not easy. Building our relationship from such distance is not easy. Communication, compromising, priorities difference is always an issue. Awareness of who the most important people in my life came late. Through longing from home, I realise I need to be with the ones I love. That is my Mitwelt.
anggit bestari
Morning Song
pigment on Korean paper
72.5 x 90 cm
2018
Back then every morning,
mum would take me and my sister to school.
Three of us rode a motorbike.
Morning sun appeared slowly from behind Mount Salak.
Mum always had random things to talk about on motorbike,
so we don't get sleepy.
She even created fairytales,
made spontaneously at the moment.
That morning,
she created a rhymed song about Mount Salak,
where we lived at.
Gunung Salakku (my mount Salak)
Gunung yang biru (blue mount Salak)
Tempat rumahku (where my home is at)
dan ayah ibu (so are father mother)
Gunung Salakku (my mount Salak)
Kucinta kamu (I love you)
Indah rupamu (your beauty)
Menyentuh kalbu (touched my heart)
Cloudy Days
ink on Korean paper
144 cm x 111,5 cm
2019
Living far away from family
and loved ones,
means...
lonely birthdays,
lonely days.
\When things get rough,
no one will be there
to comfort me.
This message was sent by mum,
for my birthday
"Happy birthday, Anggit.
Enjoy every step, every moment.
Do wrong, but fix it.
Fall, but get back on your feet.
It's okay you're hurt, it'll heal.
There are cloudy and gloomy days.
And that's okay.
Proving that you're living
on this earth."
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Sisters of the Blue
ink and pigment on Korean paper
46 cm x 106 cm
2020
We were not close.
I thought of her as nuisance.
I did not care about her.
I was not the best older sister.
But when we faced biggest family problems,
I was reminded that
we should support each other
for the family to work.
It took me long to realize,
she was also raised in our beloved blue mountain.
She spent as much timed under clear blue sky of Bali.
She loves swimming in crystal blue sea as much as I do.
When It Rains
pigment on Korean paper
130 cm x 193.5 cm
2020
I remember running around our garden when it rains.
That my mum had to drag me inside because i played in the rain too long.
I would try to catch some rain drops with my mouth.
And swallow it.
The ducks were all out, having party The frogs started to sing.
I tried to join their choir with my gibberish, out of tune singing.
I do not know when I started to see rain differently.
It annoys me now.
I take shelter now.
When it is cloudy I would be hoping for it not to rain.
Rain for adults means impracticality.
Traffic jam, more laundry to wash.
Ruined hair, ruined make up.
I wish I could go back to when
I appreciate rain.
Welcoming it with excitement and enormous joy.
When I just genuinely enjoy whatever nature has given me.
Exhibition
2017
Group
Group exhibition, “미적미적 문질문질” Art Dorm.
Seoul, South Korea.
2020
Solo
Solo exhibition, “Clouds and Self-Consciousness” at Gallery IS.
Seoul, South Korea.