artist/ Jumaldi

Indonsia

Jumaldi Alfi (b. 1973, Lintau, Sumatra) is one of the most dynamic and influential artists on the Indonesian contemporary art scene today. A painter pur sang, Alfi came to international attention in the late ‘90s as one of the founding members of the influential art group Jendela, whose focus on aesthetic and material exploration within a more formalist and personal territory introduced a fresh dynamic into the world of Indonesian contemporary art.

Alfi is particularly known for his compelling personal iconography of visual signs, reflecting existential and spiritual experience on both, an individual and collective level. In creating his comprehensive painting series such as Blackboard Paintings or, more recently, the series of Melting Memories, he draws on a scope of references from text to empirical objects of the natural world to Renaissance paintings and his own memories; the effect of his work being at once mysterious and intimate. Alfi lives and works in Yogyakarta, Indonesia and has exhibited extensively in Indonesia as well as internationally.