Cellist #06, 2013
Mixed Media On Canvas
150 X 130 CM

In the timeline of Indonesian art history, Erizal AS is still considered as a young painter. But he has made a name in the exuberant contemporary paintings scene in the past five years. His avidity in his active participation in many exhibitions and painting competitions locally and internationally is a sign of a promising serious creativity and productivity. It would be right to say that Erizal is a painter that has established his distinctive character and language.

In this exhibition, Erizal AS would like to convey rhythm that is present in his daily life, in a subjective way, of course, and without the technical reason to modify rhythm and putting it into what we call music. What is interesting to note is his effort to create relations of meaning amongst the musical instruments, human figures, and nature. The significance of the three elements is evidence in the expressive conspicuous strokes of his paintings – as if they are catharsis intent on giving nothing to spare.
The meaning shaped by the relations of rhythm, human, and nature in Erizal’s paintings visibly shows a life narration that strongly represents figures which are dynamic, emotive, and clearly open. His choice of musical instruments such as the piano, guitar, saxophone and violin is merely to show that there are differences when it comes to individualistic expressions.
And what meaning could we expect from the narration of live by rhythm, or in this case, from music? In music rhythm we can find different breath of life narrations: tragedy, comedy, and irony.
People in general would desire to have life esthetically managed, as to find harmony. What are the prerequisite for such harmony? It is none other than the ability to align the tragic, the comic, and the ironic elements! But that would not be the final answer, as we would then be faced with another question: where do tragedy, comedy, and irony come from? The question was indeed the biggest challenge for ancient Greeks thinkers, which eventually gave birth to the discipline of thoughts that we now know as philosophy!
Reality is born out of rhythm! It comes from the human efforts to manage rhythm into various elements and domains of life. Without rhythm, all we have is chaos! Cosmology is believed to be a harmonious orders of strings of rhythm, from which human sees the meaning of life. When Pythagoras interpreted rhythm that he believed to be present in every planet through mathematics, as was written in the early paragraph of this writing, human endeavor to find harmony was believed to have reached a huge success! Music represents logos. The very principal of reality, order, structure and the harmony itself!
It seems to be such a simple matter, how we interact or relate to rhythm – though this matter is hardly the exclusive concern of only few people. Erizal is only one of many painters that happen to be ready to interact with rhythm using painted media. He expresses that rhythm is spontaneous, energetic, hyphenated while at the same going in paradoxical circle. We wonder where in life’s narrative those expressive rhythms bring us. We may be brought to tragedy, irony, or comedy through whatever rhythm we interact with. It is impossible to define the rhythm of life permanently. Rhythm will let us float, crawl, submerged, planted, or whatever.
Erizal seems incline to present that it would be possible for the rhythm of life to adjust to our own experiences, and how we put our own meaning to them. We can see that in how as a painter he has so freely chosen the musical instruments that conform to his aesthetic feeling.


AWARDS



1997 - 10 Finalists, Lomba Keterampilan Siswa Tingkat Nasional, Jakarta
- Painting Contest, Lomba Lukis Wajah pahlawan, museum Aditiawarman,
Sumatra Barat.
1998 - Finalists Philip Morris Art Awards V.
2000 - Best Work at Dies Natalies XVI ISI Yogyakarta.
2002 - Nominated as one of 10 Best at the painting contest Selekda PEKSIMINAS
2003 - CP Open BIENNALE 2003
- Finalists Indonesian Asean Art Awards.
- Finalists Indofood Art Awards.
2006 - Finalists Jakarta Art Awards, 2006
2007 - As 20 nominees of visual art competition of The Thousand Mysteries of
Borobudur
2013 - Finalists OUB Painting Competition, Jakarta. Indonesia.


Solo Exhibition
2012 - Solo Exhibition “ Visual Symponies “ Ganesha Gallery, Four Season
Resort, Jimbaran - Bali
- Solo Exhibition ‘ rhythm of art, Philo Art Space, Jakarta
2007 - Solo Exhibition ‘lines Project’ Koong Gallery, Jakarta
2005 - Solo Exhibition , “ Problematika Sosial Sebagai Ide Penciptaan, Institut Seni Indosia, Yogyakarta


Group Exhibition
2014 - LOCAFORE’14, Bale pare Hall,kota baru, Parahiyangan,BAndung
- BAKABA#3 kini, Jogja Gallery, yogyakarta
- Untukmu Guru, Gallery Hj. Soewarni, Museum H.Widayat, Magelang
- 50:50, MJK Group, Nalarroepa, Yogyakarta
2013 - OUB Painting Competition, OUB Plaza, Jakarta
- Homoludens#4 “Bermain Seni Rupa dengan Tiga Pesan” Bentara Budaya
- “Gagal Ekspresi” wisma Lapas wirongunan, yogyakarta
- Motion & Rhythm, Sangkring art project, Yogyakarta
- Realita-3 Podjok art space, Padang
2012 - Garis Bawah’’,ISI Padang Panjang, M Syafei Building
- ‘BAKABA#2 “Antara Pintu dan Halaman” Sangkring Art Space Yogyakarta
-, Homoludens #3, “Permainan Mulut”,Emitan CA Gallery, Surabaya
- FREEKICK, Convention Hall Royal Square, Surabaya
2011 - Islamic Visual Art Exhibition "BAYANG" National Gallery, Jakarta
- Homoludens # 2, Emmitan CA Gallery, Surabaya.
- ‘My Space’, Philo Art Space, Jakarta
- ‘Intip’ Jakarta Art Distric, Jakarta
- ‘ City of west, Green Art Space, Jakarta
- Nusantara diatas kanvas, Sampoerna Strategic Center, Jakarta
2010 - ‘Bakaba, Sakato Art Comunity, Jogja Nasional Museum, Yogyakarta
- Group Exhibition Citra Ekspresi Jogja 2.Hotel Shultan, Jakarta
- TRAMENDUM’ Philo Art Space 5th Anniversary, National Gallery, Jakarta
2009 - ’ TRAP(ESIUM)’ Edwins Gallery, Jakarta
- ’Charity for Yayasan AIDS Indonesia, Linggar Gallery, Jakarta
- “ Borderless World’ Second Unniversary of Srisasanti Gallery, Yogyakarta
- ‘Exposign’ Jogja Expo Center, Yogyakarta