Author: Nurdian Ichsan
Nurdian Ichsan graduated from the Faculty of Fine Art and Design ITB majoring in ceramics art in 1997. He then finished his master’s degree in 2002 at the same institute. Besides actively works as an artist, Sasan is also one of the teaching staff at the Faculty of Fine Art and Design ITB. He has had two solo exhibitions this year alone, titled (di)stance at Sigiarts Gallery and Nowhere Man at The Japan Foundation. His artworks show distinctive tendencies as part of the ceramics art development that is sculptural ceramic. Two things that are always in his artworks are human and brick figures. Each of these objects has a different association. Bricks and buildings are associated with the concept of ‘man-made space’ reflecting problems that interest Sasan: the relation between humans and spaces. His brick artworks are shown in an effect of space simulation that can connect us with our experiences and memories about the presence of the characters in another represented space or an illusive space.
In this exhibition, his artwork titled Numbers (circle) consists of 2000 small red bricks marked with numbers and dates of production. These bricks are arranged manually one by one to form a circular wall. Every viewer is invited to take a brick and is asked to mark it on a piece of paper provided on the numbered brick that have been collected based on the numbers on it. Numbers (circle) is a form of intersection of site specific installation, interactive piece of art, and time-based art. The process of taking the brick by every visitor is like a reversed process of building and arranging. Numbers (circle) is about an experience on temporality, impermanence, looseness, and incompleteness through an act of form deconstructing done in stages.
Source: http://jakartacontemporaryceramic.wordpress.com/artists-2/nurdian-ichsan/
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