
BULAN
2022
Rendered in the precise, layered language of silkscreen, Roby Dwi Antono's BULAN (2022) presents the artist's unmistakable visual vocabulary at an intimate scale. A solitary figure, rendered with the wide, luminous eyes and otherworldly stillness that have become signatures of Antono's practice, inhabits a compressed pictorial space suffused with symbolic weight. The work's title, meaning "moon" in Indonesian, anchors the image within a broader poetic framework that Antono has developed across painting, print, and drawing, one concerned with memory, mythology, and the fragile threshold between the waking world and dream. Born in Yogyakarta and now widely collected across Asia, Europe, and the Americas, Antono has built a reputation for works that synthesize influences ranging from classical European portraiture to Japanese manga and surrealist figuration. BULAN exemplifies his ability to distill this layered sensibility into a single concentrated image, where restraint and emotional intensity coexist. The silkscreen medium suits his aesthetic particularly well, allowing for the flat, saturated color fields and crisp graphic definition that amplify the figures' quiet, uncanny presence. Issued in an edition of 200 and signed by the artist, this work represents an accessible entry point into a body of work whose market trajectory has accelerated considerably in recent years. The edition is available through Kumi Contemporary, and at 50 by 44 cm it is well suited to both intimate domestic settings and institutional display. Collectors acquiring BULAN are securing not only a carefully produced object but a meaningful document of one of contemporary Southeast Asian art's most distinctive voices.
- Medium
- Silkscreen
- Sheet
- Signed
- Yes
- Spotted At
- Gallery · Kumi Contemporary
For Sale — £1050
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