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Lot Essay
With his highly graphic compositions, Besta Bestrizal has captured the imagination of viewers with his productive engagement between humanity, science and art. The artist's realistic and detailed rendering of details with charcoal affirms Bestrizal's place as one of the best emerging contemporary Indonesian figurative painters.
Thinking Out of The Box (Lot 621) is a surrealistic complication of the neat categories which have come to define human existence. Birds and sea creatures are suspended within the same field of ocean-like depth, circling the figure of a diver whose gaze holds ours steadily, despite being obscured by his helmet. The work is a presentation of elements out of place - the normally land-bound human is shown with his feet planted impossibly firmly within the water, while the background assumed to present the depths of the sea, is complicated by the appearance of clouds. Besta Bestrizal blurrs the lines between sea and sky, land animals and sea animals, fantasy and reality.
Ultimately, this is a work which challenges traditional ways of seeing and perception. Besta Bestrizal has illustrated an additional frame within the physical frame of the artwork, and as the diver's flippers jut out just beyond the illusrated frame into the liminal space leading to the artwork's physical edge, we too are encouraged to step out and explore beyond the confines of our perceived boundaries.
Thinking Out of The Box (Lot 621) is a surrealistic complication of the neat categories which have come to define human existence. Birds and sea creatures are suspended within the same field of ocean-like depth, circling the figure of a diver whose gaze holds ours steadily, despite being obscured by his helmet. The work is a presentation of elements out of place - the normally land-bound human is shown with his feet planted impossibly firmly within the water, while the background assumed to present the depths of the sea, is complicated by the appearance of clouds. Besta Bestrizal blurrs the lines between sea and sky, land animals and sea animals, fantasy and reality.
Ultimately, this is a work which challenges traditional ways of seeing and perception. Besta Bestrizal has illustrated an additional frame within the physical frame of the artwork, and as the diver's flippers jut out just beyond the illusrated frame into the liminal space leading to the artwork's physical edge, we too are encouraged to step out and explore beyond the confines of our perceived boundaries.