Artist statement
My works are mosaics of art and culture from my country, which is a variety of arts, cultures and languages, is a synthesis between east and west. Which is my art education background in Germany, at FH-Cologne Art Academy, majoring in glass paintings and textile art-tapestry, therefore my works is a synthesis of mosaic and textile art. A particular theme in my work is people, from the past until now, with various technique in my works. I use mixed medium, acrylic colors, collages such as jute, rope, modeling paste and transparent paper. It looks like 3-dimensional, because I like cubism, apart from painting I also like to make sculptures. The subjects in my works are mostly about the mosaic of my life, the people around my life, I work with various phases, like circulation of my life.
- by Antonius Kho
HUMAN OBSERVATION
Observing the lives of people around me, with their various behaviors, of different ages, of various professions, of various events, from the point of innocence, honesty, chastity, with white strings on their bodies, symbolizing innocence, honesty and authenticity their character, from birth.
- by Antonius Kho
My works, like my culture, are mosaic: they consist of vignettes of tropical and earth tones scattered across the canvas in an obsession patterning of human figures and masks. When looking at it, though, it is impossible to focus on these individual patterns or sub-patterns, one’s attention is drawn away, made to run from one color surface to the other. dance across the canvas from one tone to the other. until this visual search identification signs: eyes. Eyes lurk everywhere in my works, “They are the ultimate presence or truth” , therefore the life behind the mask-and, from an aesthetic point of view.
The vibrant of earth tones of my native Java find life and substance in carefully structured compositions. My seeks to resolve the fluid, graceful, mutable philosophy of Indonesia with solid, reasonable, almost cubist forms. These rich and various forms are rendered in slashing, vigorous strokes, with generous application of tropical colors.
My paintings are figurative while having the formal qualities of abstraction. They can thus be interpreted at both levels, without the one interfering on the other. One may let oneself be either haunted by the weird presence of the "eyes" and masks or entranced by the hypnotic quality of the color patterns.
-by Antonius Kho
My works are mosaics of art and culture from my country, which is a variety of arts, cultures and languages, is a synthesis between east and west. Which is my art education background in Germany, at FH-Cologne Art Academy, majoring in glass paintings and textile art-tapestry, therefore my works is a synthesis of mosaic and textile art. A particular theme in my work is people, from the past until now, with various technique in my works. I use mixed medium, acrylic colors, collages such as jute, rope, modeling paste and transparent paper. It looks like 3-dimensional, because I like cubism, apart from painting I also like to make sculptures. The subjects in my works are mostly about the mosaic of my life, the people around my life, I work with various phases, like circulation of my life.
- by Antonius Kho
HUMAN OBSERVATION
Observing the lives of people around me, with their various behaviors, of different ages, of various professions, of various events, from the point of innocence, honesty, chastity, with white strings on their bodies, symbolizing innocence, honesty and authenticity their character, from birth.
- by Antonius Kho
My works, like my culture, are mosaic: they consist of vignettes of tropical and earth tones scattered across the canvas in an obsession patterning of human figures and masks. When looking at it, though, it is impossible to focus on these individual patterns or sub-patterns, one’s attention is drawn away, made to run from one color surface to the other. dance across the canvas from one tone to the other. until this visual search identification signs: eyes. Eyes lurk everywhere in my works, “They are the ultimate presence or truth” , therefore the life behind the mask-and, from an aesthetic point of view.
The vibrant of earth tones of my native Java find life and substance in carefully structured compositions. My seeks to resolve the fluid, graceful, mutable philosophy of Indonesia with solid, reasonable, almost cubist forms. These rich and various forms are rendered in slashing, vigorous strokes, with generous application of tropical colors.
My paintings are figurative while having the formal qualities of abstraction. They can thus be interpreted at both levels, without the one interfering on the other. One may let oneself be either haunted by the weird presence of the "eyes" and masks or entranced by the hypnotic quality of the color patterns.
-by Antonius Kho