Griya Gallery

32th Photo of Avanti

2011-12-03T08:42:00.000-08:00

"Fragile" by Avanti Sukma (Ragunan, 2011)

Is this the definition of "We are trying to save the animals".

Locking them up in a cage... all alone?

Animals die because they're lonely.

Do you think humans are the only one with hearts?

31th Photo of Avanti

2011-12-03T08:39:00.001-08:00

"What Are You Hiding From" by Avanti Sukma (Rome, 2010)

This is an old photo I took last year in...somewhere in Rome. It was the second day of my stay in Italy. I was taking a walk with my friends around the hotel area. Back then... everything seems was just surreal.. even now.

30th Photo by Avanti

2011-12-03T08:27:00.000-08:00

"Faces of The Dead" by Avanti Sukma (Ragunan, 2011)

Models: Dead preserved monkeys.

I'm really sorry for the weird qualities. They were put in a glass and the glass were somehow weird enough the picture turns out like this. Can you see their eyes?

Living beings are better to be seen when their alive.

29th Photo by Avanti

2010-12-24T18:49:00.000-08:00

"Full Moon" by Avanti Sunu (December 2010)

(This photo was taken by Avanti at Pellaro, Reggio Calabria, Italy)

28th Photo by Avanti

2010-10-10T18:19:00.000-07:00

"Red at Pellaro Italy"by Avanti Sunu (October 2010)

(This photo taken by Avanti at the first month she join AFS exchange program. This photo take at Pellaro (Reggio Calabria, Italy) a city where she lives with her host family for 11 months)

KOMPETISI SENI LUKIS REMAJA NASIONAL 2010 !

2010-10-01T18:19:00.000-07:00

YSRI kembali melaksanakan KOMPETISI SENI LUKIS REMAJA NASIONAL 2010. Ikutan yuk! Mau tau lebih jauh? Klik aja

http://yayasansenirupaindonesia.blogspot.com/2010_10_01_archive.html

"Arte porta bellezza nella nostro il mondo"
Buona fortuna!
Avanti Sunu, Italy 2010

27th Photo - Mbah Kompor

2010-08-29T17:53:00.000-07:00

"Mbah Kompor" (Old Man & the Gas Stove) by Avanti Sunu 2010

AFS Exchange Student 2011-2012

2010-04-05T06:45:00.000-07:00

Wanna to join exchange student program? Here I share with you the hottest information about the oldest exchange student program in the world. Avanti already join this program since April 2009. Avanti passed one by one steps until national selection. Thank God, Avanti become one of national candidates. Now Avanti is still waiting for a final decision form AFS Italy / France / Swiss. Now it's turn for others to join the AFS program. Wanna to know about it?
.

For detail information please contact the nearest chapter. You can find the address on http://www.bina-antarbudaya.info/

26th Poster by Avanti

2010-01-16T06:03:00.000-08:00

"Eco-Life Poster" by Avanti 2009

(This poster was published on "High End Teen" magazine November 2009 & it was annouced as the 1s winner at April 2010 so she got scholarship for UIC College)

HOT NEWS: KOMPETISI SENI LUKIS REMAJA NASIONAL 2009!

2009-10-23T06:41:00.000-07:00

YSRI kembali melaksanakan KOMPETISI SENI LUKIS REMAJA NASIONAL 2009. Ikutan yuk! Mau tau lebih jauh? Klik aja

http://yayasansenirupaindonesia.blogspot.com/2009/10/kompetisi-seni-lukis-remaja-nasional.html

Salam,
Avanti Sukmalanu

NB: Ikutan KSLRN itu asyik banget. Banyak dapet temen, dapat pengalaman. Ketemu juri-juri yang heboh. Ketemu bu Miranda Gultom...he....he...

25th Photo by Avanti

2009-10-23T06:30:00.000-07:00

"The Magic of Colour" by Avanti 2009

24th Photo by Avanti

2009-08-18T20:30:00.000-07:00

"Darkness" by Avanti Sunu 2009

"Crazy Highway" by Avanti Sunu 2009

"Bandung From The Top" by Avanti Sunu 2009

23th Sketsa - Eyewatch

2009-08-18T20:05:00.000-07:00

22th Painting - The Color of My Childhood

2008-10-18T08:00:00.000-07:00

"THE COLOR OF MY CHILDHOOD"

(CERIA KECILKU)

This is the newest painting of Avanti Sunu. Using this painting she became a finalist of "National Teenager Painting Competition 2008". She decribed her imagination about her childhood. She wanted to tell that childhood has dependency meaning to mother figure. Children need to be guide by mothers. She described the dependency by covers all children activities inside of mother pregnancy. She also described it by filament that connected mother with all of his childrens. Although the children has a dependency, she imagined it as a happy and lovely period. She described it using colorfull painting, favourite children games and activities (plays football, celebrates birthday, asks for gifts etc). She described happiness in childhood period by painted happy face in every figure of childs. She also used the colorfull circle outside the body as ornaments and symbol of her most favourite candy. In other side, she described a naked mother and her hand to hold her pregnancy as a symbol of mother genuinity to take care all of his children.

Year: 2008
Media: oil color & acrylic on canvas
Size: 60 x 60 cm
Artist: Avanti Sunu
Price: -

21th Painting - Behind The Forest

2008-08-18T07:57:00.000-07:00

"BEHIND THE FOREST"

(DARI BALIK CELAH HUTAN)

Again, her loveliness to the nature brought her back to paint the beautifulness of Indonesia nature on the canvas. This time, she mix her admire and her sadness in one canvas. Her admire to the real figure who act as a volunteer teacher in a wild jungle in Sumatera island, made her to eternalize the figure. She painted the genuine effort of the figure, in the exotic green jungle of Indonesia with so many green color. It also reflected her sadness about education in Indonesia that is obsolete.

Year : 2007
Media : oil color & acrylic on canvas
Size : 60 x 100 cm
Artist : Avanti Sunu
Price : -

20th Painting - Better Late Than Never

2008-08-18T07:54:00.000-07:00

"BETTER LATE THAN NEVER"

Keheranan dan keluguannya sebagai anak yang mulai beranjak dewasa tergoreskan di kanvas kecil ini. Keheranan akan mengapa seorang anak kecil harus memunguti sampah seusai sekolah membuatnya berupaya mengabadikannya dalam lukisan ini. Kontradiksi mendominasi lukisan ini. Kontradiksi antara warna gelap akan sampah sebagai latar belakang dengan warna biru langit yang begitu cerah. Kontradiksi akan keinginan sekolah yang digambarkan dalam buku-buku pelajaran dengan sampah yang digendong sang pemulung.

Year : 2007
Media : oil color on canvas
Size : 20 x 30 cm
Artist : Avanti Sunu
Price : -

19th Painting - Mother

2008-08-18T07:52:00.000-07:00

"MOTHER" (SI MBOK)

Inspired by her memory to walk around Bringhardjo (famous traditional market at Yogya) she chose to paint this picture. Her curiosity and admire about the spirit of Javanese woman made her to choose to paint a little girl behind the mother. It also reflected her own emotional relationship as child to his mother.

Year : 2007
Media : oil color on canvas
Size : 80 x 70 cm
Artist : Avanti Sunu
Price : -

18th Painting - The Way of Life

2008-08-18T07:46:00.000-07:00

"THE WAY OF LIFE"

(JALAN KEHIDUPAN)

Sebuah potret sosial kembali dihadirkan oleh sang Pelukis. Sisi kewanitaannya yang lembut tersentuh oleh gerakan lamban namun pasti, dari seorang Ibu yang melintas di sebuah jalan. Setiap hari langkah diayun oleh sang Ibu menempuh jalan yang sama dengan beban yang sama, demi untuk menyambung kehidupannya. Sementara orang lain dapat dengan bebas melenggang tanpa beban. Kenyataan hidup itulah yang disuguhkan oleh sang pelukis.

Year : 2007
Media : oil color on canvas
Size : 80 x 50 cm
Artist : Avanti Sunu
Price : -

17th Painting - Sky Above Djogdja

2008-08-18T07:43:00.000-07:00

"SKY ABOVE DJOGDJA"
.
(LANGIT DI ATAS TOEGOE DJOGDJA)

This is one of the artist explorations in the end of 2006, while she became finalist of “National Teenager Painting Competition”. Her longing to Yogya city, made her to choose to paint situation around the famous Yogya Monument (Tugu Yogya) on the past (a hundred years ago). Those overcast beautiful colors on this painting made us to invent the old-time stories of the magic corner of Yogya city, as one of the lovely cities in Indonesia.

Year : 2006
Media : oil color & acrylic on canvas
Size : 70 x 60 cm
Artist : Avanti Sunu
Price : -

16th Painting - Tradition

2008-08-18T07:40:00.000-07:00

"TRADITION" (TRADISI)

The spirit of country people in Indonesia gave the artist idea. This is one of her sympathy to them. We can see the tradition that happens everyday, when country people go out from their country to the promising city. The artist also captured the beautiful environment in the country. We can see so many tropical plants and trees. This painting was sold to Mr. and Mrs. Rudy Kusuma.

Year : 2006
Media : oil color on canvas
Size : 70 x 80 cm
Artist : Avanti Sunu
Price : -

15th Painting - Her Power

2008-08-16T20:23:00.000-07:00

"HER POWER" (KEKUATAN)

This is a portrait of Javanese old woman. She has strong spirit and motivation to give their family life. The artist used black and white colors to represent the old woman two choices in life: working hard or hunger.

Year : 2006
Media : oil color on canvas
Size : 80 x 50 cm
Artist : Avanti Sunu
Price : -

14th Painting - Hopeless of Aceh

2008-08-16T20:20:00.000-07:00

"HOPELESS of ACEH" (RENUNGAN ACEH)

Tsunami at Aceh is one of traumatic event for Indonesian people, including the artist. She tried to capture the feeling of Aceh people by painting one old Aceh man expression. We can see the emptiness of that man by his eye, by his face expression. It seem that there is no hope for him in the future live.

Year : 2006
Media : oil color on canvas
Size : 80 x 60 cm
Artist : Avanti Sunu
Price : -

13th Painting - Wedhus Gembel

2008-08-16T20:17:00.000-07:00

"WEDHUS GEMBEL"

Wedhus Gembel is the popular name of hot deadly cloud from volcano (Merapi Mount in Central Java). In 2006 it made the painter favorite place to paint (Bebeng, near Merapi Mountain) became destroyed. She put herself in the picture of a man who saw the Wedhus Gembel from far away. She hide her sadness by paint the man body from back side.
.

Year : 2006
Media : oil color on canvas
Size : 80 x 60 cm
Artist : Avanti Sunu
Price : -

12th Painting - It Stranded

2008-08-16T20:14:00.000-07:00

"IT STRANDED" (TERDAMPAR)

Beach again. In this painting we found one of the beautifulness of the Indonesia seas. So blue, so green. She reflected her desire to swim on the sea by some figure of children play on the beach. This time she also used sponges to paint beside of paint brushes.

Year : 2005
Media : oil color on canvas
Size : 100 x 100 cm
Artist : Avanti Sunu
Price : -

11th Painting - If

2008-08-16T20:11:00.000-07:00

"IF" (ANDAIKAN ANDA)

She used pallet method for the first time in this painting. Basically she likes to use paint brushes compared to the pallet method. But we still can found beautiful painting here, because she painted by her heart. Her desire to conserve the forest made her to paint the beautifulness of the mangroves forest on this painting.

Year : 2005
Media : oil color on canvas
Size : 80 x 100 cm
Artist : Avanti Sunu

10th Painting - Yellowish

2008-08-16T20:06:00.000-07:00

"YELLOWISH" (MENGUNING)

This is her other painting about the country. Yellow is the main color of the rice plant. She chose to reflect the happiness of the farmer by the yellow color. The artist used paint brushes and some pieces of bamboo to paint this painting. This painting is also her first trying to paint human.

Year : 2005
Media : oil color on canvas
Size : 75 x 80 cm
Artist : Avanti Sunu
Price : -

9th Photo

2008-08-15T19:01:00.000-07:00

Derasnya keinginan untuk mengabadikan keindahan, tidak hanya dituangkan oleh Avanti Sunu dalam bentuk kanvas dan kertas, melainkan juga melalui fotografi. Berikut adalah beberapa hasil karyanya.

"Matahari pun Pergi" by Avanti Sunu 2008

"Lubang Sang Langit" by Avanti Sunu 2007

"Tetangga Seberang" by Avanti Sunu 2007

"Menguning di Pantai" by Avanti Sunu 2008

8th Painting - Free Blue

2008-08-15T18:58:00.001-07:00

"FREE BLUE" (BIRU NAN BEBAS)

This is her third painting of the sea. There are two main topics in this painting: freedom and beautifulness. We can see the freedom among the fishes swimming on the sea and the beautifulness color inside the sea. The contrast color made this painting became more beautiful. It is very fresh to see the blue color in the painting.
.

Year : 2004
Media : oil color on canvas
Size : 50 x 80 cm
Artist : Avanti Sunu

7th Painting - My Country

2008-08-15T18:51:00.001-07:00

"MY COUNTRY" (DESAKU)

This is a duplicate of one Indonesian famous painter (Mr. Koempoel) from Eat Java. She chose this painting because of her admire to Mr. Koempoel. We can find the unique view of Indonesia in this painting: mountain, river and sawah (wet rice-field). The difference between her and Mr. Koempoel is the centre of the painting. Mr. Koempoel preferred to paint flamboyant tree as a centre, but the artist preferred to paint a blue mountain and river as a centre. This painting was given to Al Fajri Foundation.

Year : 2004
Media : oil color on canvas
Size : 70 x 80 cm
Artist : Avanti Sunu
Price : -

6th Painting - Friendship

2008-08-15T17:06:00.000-07:00

"FRIENDSHIP" (TEMAN)

The painter is a shy girl, but in fact she likes and wants to have many friend. She really needs friendship. She painted two different characters to reflect her profile and her difficulty to find friend. The position of those characters showed that finally she found her everlasting best friend.
.

Year : 2004
Media : oil color on canvas
Size : 70 x 80 cm
Artist : Avanti Sunu

5th Painting - My Dream

2008-08-15T16:57:00.000-07:00

"MY DREAM" (MIMPIKU)

One of the artist favorite films is “Sound of Music”. She was inspired and had a dream about it. She painted her dream in this painting. She used her paradigm as a child who had a beautiful & free dream. We can see the child innocence here.

Year : 2004
Media : oil color on canvas
Size : 70 x 80 cm
Artist : Avanti Sunu

4th Painting - Our Home

2008-08-15T16:39:00.000-07:00

"OUR HOME" (RUMAH KAMI)

This is one of the early paintings on canvas of the artist. She still used a model to make this painting, but she put her imagination about herself and her brother on the painting. Again we found the two contrast colors here, between purple and green. It was so cool to see the combination.

Year : 2003
Media : oil color on canvas
Size : 60 x 70 cm
Artist : Avanti Sunu

3rd Painting - My Blue Ocean

2008-08-08T20:54:00.000-07:00

"MY BLUE OCEAN" (BIRUKU LAUTKU)

Again, she chose to paint ocean. She loves ocean and beach very much. She painted the beautiful and soft blue color in this painting. This blue color made us feel cool and peace. This painting was sold to Mr. Soepirman Soetarman.

Year : 2003
Media : oil color on canvas
Size : 60 x 50 cm
Artist : Avanti Sunu

2nd Painting - The Silence

2008-08-08T20:49:00.000-07:00

"THE SILENCE" (KEHENINGAN)

The sea is one of her favorites. The interesting aspect of this painting is the impression of peace feeling in our heart, if we see the painting. The emptiness and silence of that sea made the impression appear.
.

Year : 2003
Media : oil color on canvas
Size : 50 x 60 cm
Artist : Avanti Sunu
Price : -

1st Panting - The First

2008-08-08T20:45:00.001-07:00

"THE FIRST" (SEBUAH AWAL)
.
This is the first painting on the canvas of the artist. She chose to paint a house as a symbol of the central of her life, her beginning to start her activities everyday. The interesting impression here is her way to paint sky and cloud.

Year : 2003
Media : oil color on canvas
Size : 50 x 60 cm
Artist : Avanti Sunu

About The Artist

2008-08-05T05:35:00.001-07:00

"SEBERKAS SINAR"

Seni merupakan jiwa dalam hidup manusia. Seni telah hidup sepanjang kehidupan manusia itu sendiri. Tawa, tangis, sendu, lara, gairah mewarnai hidup, memacu manusia untuk meluapkan hasratnya, juga untuk menghasilkan seni. Sesuatu yang sangat unik, terkadang aneh, sulit dipahami, namun terus hidup dalam langkah peradaban dunia. Coretan, lukisan, pahatan, tiupan, hentakan, semua memiliki makna dalam seni.

Coretan di atas batu, relief, coretan di atas kertas sampai dengan kanvas memberikan arti tersendiri yang terkadang abadi sifatnya.

Sangat mengherankan bahwa coretan manusia mana pun memiliki makna yang berarti. Menyiratkan isi hati, pemikiran bahkan emosi si pencoret. Untuk itu seorang gadis cilik telah memilih hidupnya untuk menumpahkan semua itu ke dalam coretannya. Hidupnya adalah mencoret, menarik garis dan menyemburatkan warna. Ini duniaku katanya. Semua rasa takut, rendah diri dan malu dibuangnya melalui dunia itu. Ini aku, katanya melalui lukisannya.

Avanti Sukmalanu atau Avanti Sunu namanya. Panggil saja dia: Ava.

Kiprahnya di dunia seni belumlah lama. Namanya pun bukanlah nama besar di belantara seni Indonesia. Baginya seni adalah gejolak jiwa, tak dapat dipaksa untuk datang, namun dengan segenap rasa cintanya pada dunia seni ia mampu menorehkan beberapa catatan perjalanan sebagai berikut:

2004, Avanti menjadi finalis di "Asia Pacific Drawing Competition" yang finalnya dilaksanakan di Singapore. Avanti merupakan satu-satunya wakil dari Indonesia.

2006, di usia 13 tahun Avanti menjadi finalis "Kompetisi Lukis Remaja Nasional 2006" (usia 13-20 tahun) yang diselenggarakan oleh YSRI (Yayasan Seni rupa Indonesia), tersaring dari sekitar 375 peserta seluruh Indonesia.

2007, di usia 14 tahun Avanti menjadi finalis "Kompetisi Lukis Remaja Nasional 2007" (usia SMP-SMA) yang diselenggarakan oleh YSRI (Yayasan Seni rupa Indonesia), tersaring dari sekitar 350-400 peserta seluruh Indonesia.

2008, diusia 15 tahun Avanti kembali menjadi finalis "Kompetisi Lukis Remaja Nasional 2008" (usia SMP-SMA) yang diselenggarakan oleh YSRI, tersaring dari sekitar 200 peserta seluruh Indonesia. Saat ini proses final masih berlangsung.

2009-2010, Avanti menjadi pemenang pertama "Wall Magazine Competition" yang diadakan oleh "High End Teen" Magazine. Untuk itu Avanti mendapatkan beasiswa untuk belajar senin di UIC Design College Jakarta selama 2 tahun + 1 tahun di Inggris yang akan diambilnya setelah menyelesaikan SMA nya.

2010, Avanti lolos seleksi pertukaran pelajar AFS dan saat ini tinggal di Italy selama 11 bulan. Sembari belajar sebagai pelajar pada umumnya ia akan bertugas menjadi duta pertukaran budaya Indonesia-Italy, dan menambah wawasannya tentang salah satu pusat seni dunia ini.

Sejak 2004 karya-karya Avanti telah dipamerkan dalam ajang 7 kali pameran bersama, antara lain diselenggarakan di hotel Sahid Jaya, hotel Crowne Plaza, Taman Ismail Marzuki, YDBA Gallery dan Senayan City.