16 Comments on “Indonesian Art Market, Paintings, Artists”

1. Patung Says:
   September 18th, 2008 at 12:38 pm

   Singapore has a busy Indonesian art auctions scene - so perhaps Indonesian artists are not household names to the average Joe - but those learned art dealers are aware of them and appreciate it.

   Yes I used to be a little bit active in the art scene in Surabaya, as a very small time buyer, anyway when there exhibitions by young artists sometimes Singaporeans would come in and just buy the whole lot for xx million. If you looked at it on a per-painting basis they weren’t paying that much and I asked one of the painters I knew, who was an awfully nice young fellow and pretty patient with an art ignoramus like me…, why he just let his stuff go fairly cheaply and his reply was - so I can keep painting… I don’t know but that reply has always sort of stuck with me, rather affecting in a way…

2. Achmad Sudarsono Says:
   September 18th, 2008 at 4:11 pm

   Mr. Patoengs…

   How many millions we talking ??

3. Patung Says:
   September 18th, 2008 at 4:34 pm

   Well Achmad, xx meant double figures, but in the lower ranges I think, this was 5/6 years ago, they were quite small exhibitions.

4. Achmad Sudarsono Says:
   September 18th, 2008 at 4:40 pm

   Seksi Patoengs !

   why not talk about some of the artists on IM ??

   Who knows who might click onto it & help out the artistes…

   Surabaya is an underrated center of funkydom. Funkyhood ? Funkness ? Funk… u get the idea.

5. Patung Says:
   September 18th, 2008 at 5:02 pm

   That’s an idea Achmad, Djunaedi was the fellow’s name I was talking about, I’ll chase him up, he might even be fabulously successful by now. There was another fellow who sticks out in my memory, he looked like a wreck, went to his kost once and was struck with more than a bit of pity, he lived in a broom closet room, horrible little place, and he painted in there…Then one night at what was quite a big, expensive, fancy exhibition with some Bali stuff I ran in to him again and barely recognised him, he’d had a wash and smartened up…

6. Achmad Sudarsono Says:
   September 18th, 2008 at 6:30 pm

   Very Seksi, Mr. Patoengs.

7. janma Says:
   September 19th, 2008 at 8:48 am

   Achmad, my husband is a painter… he used not to be, but he is now…. and I embroider his paintings. he’s selling them in masterpiece auctions and he also buys other art and sells it at the auctions, which include singapore. Indonesian artists are seeing something of a renaissance at them moment, part of the china/asia art obssession gripping the art world at present…. some go for loads of money, take a look at masterpiece website…but he artist rarely gets the amount they sell for.

8. Achmad Sudarsono Says:
   September 19th, 2008 at 9:46 am

   @ Janma,

   Cool. Good to hear about the renaissance. Maybe it’ll stimulate a bit more experimentation - seems like there’s still alot of Affandi/Nyoman Gunarsa worship.

   Do the artists lack business skills, not interested, or just find it hard to wear two hats - in terms of not getting the cash. Got a link for the website ?

9. janma Says:
   September 19th, 2008 at 10:38 am

   you can see the catalogue and then check what they sell for on the auction results page…

10. Patung Says:
    September 19th, 2008 at 11:08 am

    On that site, hmm I rather like this young revolutionary lady but I’m not paying 30,000 for her….

    Here’s a statement about Lapindo.

    Janma do you think there’s much of a market for marketing/selling Indonesian paintings over the internet, or people want to get up close and clap their eyes on them at a gallery/ auction?

11. Achmad Sudarsono Says:
    September 19th, 2008 at 11:35 am

    Seksi Mr. Patoengs,

    Think it’d have to be in person. I always find my nude performance art has much more of an impact in person, than over YouPorn (before the White Man took it off).

    I know it’s a bit of a cliche, but doesn’t alot of art get sold over champagne-glass clinking and air kissing by well-heeled spenders, daaahling ?

12. janma Says:
    September 19th, 2008 at 12:42 pm

    Patung, I know a lot of cheap balinese art is sold over the internet, decorative pieces… flowers and the like… but real art, people want to see it… they exhibit all the paintings in an auction for awhile before the actual auction so that prospective buyers can see them.

13. Marisa Says:
    September 28th, 2008 at 9:33 pm

    You could subscribe to magazines such as ArtI, Patung, for information on local arts, exhibitions, curators, from process to market place.

14. Rob Says:
    September 28th, 2008 at 11:40 pm

    My office gets like a auction magazine every month or so. I think it is titled “Sidartha”. I am not sure on the title though. I will pay more attention next month though and pass on the info.

15. janma Says:
    October 7th, 2008 at 12:37 pm

    C Arts is a good mag…. for contemporary art…. I yuv it.

16. Paul Says:
    November 27th, 2008 at 3:06 pm

    Hello

    Can anyone help ?.
    I would like to buy a painting from the artist Mas Padhik.
    How can I contact him ?.

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