After being absent from the world of fine-arts for quite some time, Frans Nadjira has now reappear to present 27 painting works in his sole exhibition. He also displayed several poetries in special frames, and launched a book comprising the collection of his latest short-stories titled; “Firefly Trees”.
Frans Nadjira is gifted with artistic talent. Besides a painter, he is also a poet and short-story writer. For him, poetries and painting-art are blood brothers. As his paintings, his works on literacy are also lyrical, filled with heart-felt in depths and contemplation on the meaning of life.
In painting, he uses the method of psychograph, to then continue to the free-association method. The visuals of his paintings emerge from processing subconsciousness, out of something known but never thought of. The results are surrealistic works those are filled with reflections from the heart.
When observing his works, we seem to be taken into a world suspended between dream and reality. There are flower leafs blooming colorfully, leaves under the ray of light, fishes swimming in the skies.
At times, between them, glimpses of human faces appear, and mysterious figures too. There are also shapes those are unexplainable by rational mind, but they all seem to flow within a harmonious rhythm of color.
Frans Nadjira says that all shapes and colors already exist in the universe. Through processing of the heart, he just becomes the recorder or some sort of medium of that energy. His capability to act as medium allows his works to be full of astonishments, and thus opens various interpretation possibilities. Enjoying his works requires sensitivity of the soul, to allow the feel and to making it possible to find sparks of contemplation that are scattered all over the canvas.
Frans Nadjira was born in Makassar, 3 September 1952. Since the year 1960 he has been active in writing poetries and short-stories; and also painting. He focused on the major of painting-art theoretically at the Indonesian Academy of painting-Arts (ASLI) in Makassar, while the rest was all self-searching and self-learning. Since the year 1970 he has been active in holding collective and soul exhibitions, and showcasing his works on literacy in many mass media in Indonesia. In the year 1973 he decided to reside and do his arts in Bali, to date
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