The existence of Black & White

Exceeding the long journey in the colour exploration, black and white become the option.

Black and white is not just an expression of rhetoric a kind of “credoan artistic “Q’bro, black and white, it is really the colour. That is one excerpt from the introduction of Radhar Panca Dahana, a humanist. While black and white paintings are often considered as a second class painting, unattractive, and many consider are like half-finished sketches or paintings.

But this assumption would not apply for Q’bro’s works. Line incision, spread on canvas, and the formation of dimensions through the variations of black colour intensity is something that is done with whole-heartedly. This is not beginning of an artist stepping into a color painting. But this is a black and white itself.

Such as “My Ancient Sea My Current Sea” is very interesting. The paintings that express the figure of creatures in the sea are not only talked about the sea. That picture also refers to the linkage of an ancient and the latest human culture implicitly. Q’bro is not only talked about a very pitchy ancient sea when etched in the form of black and white. But at the same time, we empathize with what happened in our oceans today. Sea border issues that are often become the dispute between countries, waste pollution on the sea, etc.

A series of paintings entitled “untitled” represents also the struggle to sharpen his expression. The Q’bro’s works was philosophical, and save the expression of life road of art selected.

He seemed not to concern with the discourse of modern art. He wanted to be himself, which upholds honesty, although he had to through a series of challenges.

Otherwise, black and white lines that he has committed exceeded the long journey in the exploration of colour. “What will happen when I mix all the colors? It becomes black evidently. And after that, it will be white, because I have to take a new canvas to paint. The black colour will not be another colour. Even if I polish the paint with the light intensity, it will not be gray, but black transparent, “says artist whose original name was RM Murdaning Pandamprana.

The man where born in Singaraja Bali, April 13th 1955 is always remembered when he proposed to cooperate with the gallery, and almost always got floating answers. “Oh black and white painting? Yes, just like that, no rejection directly but pessimistic, “said the man wrestled in theatre and had won the Best Actor Youth Theatre Award, in Jakarta 1981.