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Coming
Exhibition at Jenggala's Gallery
"Fly
With Me"
An
Exhibition of Paintings and Handpainted Ceramics
November 14th, 2008 - January 16th, 2009
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Concept
of freedom has always been a great inspiration for artists,
including Anne Van Borselen, Jenggala's artist in residence.
In her exhibition "Fly with Me", the Indonesia-born
Dutch artist stated that freedom embodied human's fundamental
property. Every human has their own will and nobody else can
take it away from them. Where a human's mind is free, it flies
to wherever it wants, unbound by physical limitation. No matter
what happens, mankind can choose any imagination and have their
own will inside their mind.
As
for Anne Van Borselen, freedom is to work
with her imagination spontaneously. She captures inspiration
from her surroundings: people and faces she meets, places she
sees, songs she hears. These inspiring objects are kept reflexively
in her mind until she finds a canvas to pour them out on to.
Anne's preference in spontaneity and freedom are conspicuous
in all her artworks both paintings and ceramics. Her art skills
and techniques, honed by passionate practice since she was five,
and study in The Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and Rotterdam,
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her to move the brush brilliantly with confident aesthetic,
working her way to yielding beautiful paintings both on canvas
and ceramics.
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On
canvas, Anne Van Borselen opts for soft colors, playing compulsively
with abstract faces and figures. Some faces she saw on the street
stays in her mind and emerge in some of her artworks. The Frog
King, for example, was inspired by facial expression of a Balinese
Frog Dancer. The dancer's astonished twinkle of his big round
eyes comes out on the painting as well as ceramic pieces. So
strong is the impression of certain object that we can see such
reappearances in three or four artworks. The face of a lady
that was featured in "A Silent Way", emerged
again in "A Bird Claimed Freedom", "Sun
at Midnight", and "Golden Wings". According
to Anne, abstract faces and figures give the audience freedom
of interpretation. "It's up to them to find which painting
that really 'talks' to them about any story" she said. |
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In
"Fly with Me", Anne Van Borselen chose
wings to highlight the spirit she wants to hold in the two-month
exhibition. The wings, made of ceramics as well as of glass,
are magnificent collaborative artworks; where Jenggala craftspeople
contributed greatly on the technical aspects of the production
process; Anne Van Borselen designed, carved and painted what
she said the symbol of freedom. The artist admitted falling
in love with ceramic paintings only after working with Jenggala.
Celebrating the freedom of imagination, Anne would like to
take the audience for a flight through different stories in
her artworks. See her CV's...
Jenggala
is proud to present "Fly With Me" an exhibition
of art by Anne Van Borselen.
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