
Rima
2021
Rima presents a softly rendered, stylised face suspended in the hazy atmospheric quality that has become central to Roby Dwi Antono's practice. Executed in spraypaint on canvas in 2021, the work exemplifies the Indonesian artist's command of the medium, using its diffuse, gradient-rich nature to conjure a figure that feels simultaneously dreamlike and deeply felt. The face carries the wide, luminous eyes characteristic of Antono's iconography, evoking the starry-eyed innocence associated with Pop Surrealism while drawing on a visual vocabulary that reaches further back into Classical and Renaissance portraiture. At just under 60 by 50 centimetres, the work is intimate in scale yet generous in presence, rewarding close attention with its layered tonal subtlety. Antono occupies a distinctive position within contemporary figurative art, drawing frequent comparisons to Mark Ryden and Yoshitomo Nara while synthesising those affinities with something wholly personal. His practice bridges Surrealist imagination and classical compositional sensibility, and Rima sits comfortably within that lineage, its soft-focus treatment lending the subject an otherworldly tenderness. The spraypaint technique, unconventional within fine art portraiture, becomes in Antono's hands a vehicle for psychological nuance, blurring the boundary between the material and the ethereal. The work is signed by the artist and offered without a frame, allowing collectors the opportunity to present it according to their own aesthetic context. For those drawn to artists working at the intersection of pop culture, myth, and classical beauty, Rima represents a compelling and collectible example of Antono's vision at its most refined.
- Medium
- Spraypaint on canvas
- Overall
- Signed
- Yes
- Location
- Beinart Gallery, Brunswick, VICTORIA
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- Gallery · Beinart GalleryView on map
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