New art talent Triany tells her soul stories in debut show
New art talent Triany tells her soul stories in debut show
By Pavan Kapoor
JAKARTA (JP): Triany Savitri had reached a phase where she
needed to just glide along the blue skies of life and dream.
After leaving her hotel management job she felt a desire to
detoxify, search for a new identity and find herself all over
again.
Twiddling thumbs, she reached Bandung where she started
painting under the tutelage of an uncle who is an artist. From it
came Soul Stories, an exhibition of about 40 paintings at Koi
restaurant and gallery.
Soul Stories portrays a mind which loves fantasy and delights
in the magic of dreaming. Bright, happy colors, a simplistic
approach to theme and content is in symphony with adornments of
sequins and beads.
The current trend of beads and sequins on clothes, shoe wear,
purses and every imaginable women's accessory, has perhaps found
a place in Triany's dreams as well.
The artworks Twinkle and In Between are paintings which show
abundant green sequins twinkling on a sea of lime green. There is
an abstract image surrounded with an animated shade of lilac on a
thick border on which Triany has painted leaves in a wistful
fashion. The style and design of the layout strongly suggests a
graphic design background.
My Five Roses shows a set of five English pink roses drooping
downwards which intersect with emerald green crystals instead of
leaves.
Triany uses mainly oils and acrylics, and most of her
semi-realistic artworks have a simplistic form covering the
entire canvas. Meeting Point I, II, III have butterflies and
beetles and flowers on them. Ecstasy is an abstract, the first
impression of which reminds one of a dripping ice-cream cone. The
ice-cream colors of pistachio, pale pink and faded sunflower
yellows seem to have been dabbled onto the canvas in glorious
abundance and left to drip and succumb to the forces of gravity.
One of the impressive exhibits that is hung right at the
entrance is Dutch Dream, the style of which differs greatly from
the rest of the paintings. Triany uses the painter's spade to
splash an intricate downward wave of green and white -- an
interesting art piece, which would surely brighten up a spacious
wall.
For a person who regresses into her childhood while painting,
Triany attempts to paint like a dreaming child, while combining
the maturity of a grown up in balancing the layout.
Her favorite painting is Searching, which is like an
autobiography of the time of her life when she was searching for
meaning in her own life. She paints it in her magical color,
which is purple and is perhaps the truest story of her soul.
Triany enjoys painting as her heart desire, but her aims for
the near future are well-defined. She wants to paint realistic
art and perfect her perception of the images of real life.
Perhaps all dreamers want their delicate ankles to feel solid
ground under their feet and touch down once in a while.
Soul Stories is at Koi Gallery, Jl. Mahakam, South Jakarta,
until June 8.