Indonesian-born artist Jumaadi works with abstract painting, sculpture, and shadow puppetry, bringing together symbolic motifs, passages of text and atmospheric depictions of landscape. His work is highly emotive as he weaves together stories, memories and poetry through expressions of personal experiences and natural phenomena. Jumaadi recently represented Australia at the Moscow Biennial.
‘Cry baby Cry’ will feature works on paper, wall mounted aluminium works and wood sculptures. Loneliness was part of it is a series of small works featuring Jumaadi’s poetry. His motifs of mountains, volcanos, clouds, rain and leaves is interwoven with passages of text that float across the textural surfaces, pulling between detail and distance, and weight and lightness in a broken narrative of poetry and natural landscape.
Jan Manton Art
Until 16 November, 2013
Queensland
Loneliness was part of it (detail), 2013, gouache on canvas paper, 21 x 15cm
Courtesy the artist and Jan Manton Art, Brisbane
