Rangga Aputra – Recent Works: Project Room

 

 

 

 

Guided by a constant interest in complex and chaotic compositions, Aputra’s practice has always been deeply connected to the way his subjects appear on the canvas. 

 

Nature, in all its manifestations—whether it be sunlight seemingly passing through the canvas or a leaf capable of infusing vitality into the painting—is presented, in the artist’s rhetoric, as an essential element for human existence. From this arises the presence of floral elements intertwined with objects drawn from daily experience and lived reality which, shifting between abstraction and figuration, strip away descriptive references and project the whole into a chaotic yet controlled dimension.

It is precisely at this liminal point—between figuration and abstraction, between the two-dimensionality of the canvas and the three-dimensionality of form—that Rangga Aputra’s process appears guided by a universal aura, a silent force that binds us to one another and that, for the artist, takes shape through an intimate and ongoing dialogue with nature.

 

Recent Works thus presents a dense and vital painting practice, in which material research and formal reflection intertwine, giving rise to a continuous dialogue between creation, gesture, and perception.