Jumaldi Alfi is a painter who works sequentially on a set of ideas and themes. He is a graduate from the Institut Seni Indonesia (ISI) in Yogyakarta, and a member of the Kelompok Seni Rupa Jendela (Jendela Art Group), one of Indonesia’s most prominent contemporary art collectives. Alfi is one of the key members of the progressive movement of Indonesian contemporary art, where his pieces present how Western contemporary art affects Indonesia’s art and society. Commonly found among Alfi’s works is the urge for immediacy through the drawing, marking, and scribbling, applied over variations of landscapes and scenes, clued by way of elemental aspects such as foreground, horizon, and suggestions of space. Alfi’s markings are feverish, shifting, and ever-transforming, against a tableau that is disconcerting in its fixity and quiet monumentality. This is heightened in his drawings characterized in contrast by the proliferation of figures in various physical and mental states. He has been participating in various art exhibition like; “Pose” group exhibition, at Museum Affandi, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (2022), “Base ‘RED’ ” group exhibition, at REDBASE Foundation, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (2015), “The Window of Jendela” group exhibition, at the OHD Museum, Magelang, Indonesia (2013), “Legacy, a Trace of Civilization” group exhibition, at Esa Sampoerna Art Museum, Surabaya, Indonesia (2012), “The Show Must Go ON – Celebriting 10th Anniversary of Nadi Galery” group exhibition, at National Museum, Jakarta, Indonesia (2010), “Jendela-A Play of the Ordinary” group exhibition, at NUS Museum, Singapore (2009), and many more.
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