INDONESIA CHARACTER MEETING 2012-2014

INDONESIA CHARACTER MEETING 2012-2014

ICM or Indonesia Character Meeting 2012 was held last Sunday, November 4th 2012. ICM 2012 followed by 14 graffiti artist who creates character, from Jakarta and Bandung such as Tutu, Wormo, Kumkum, Darbotz, Choco7, Add17, The Yellow Dino, Kyow, Zeus, Name2, Koma, Stereoflow, Netic9,Bujangan Urban, and Popo. 

ICM which is organized by Mumu (Mase Crew) took place in Bintaro, Jakarta. This Year the Production theme is “Circus”. Every characters became the figures in a circus. This year’s ICM supported by FLYK and MDFK studio.

Street Art Gathering " Jumpa Tembok 2 " Tangerang, Indonesia

Profile Artist - Robo Wobo

Ths is the robowobo creepy character.

Profile Artist - TUTU

Name2 @ Indonesia Character Meeting 2012

The Yellow Dino x Signal Kustom

The Yellow Dino is an imaginary wonderland of Yudi Andhika, Bandung base artist who’s falling in love with contemporary character design and graffiti. The name Yellow Dino was based on Yudi’s alter ego character, the small yellow dinosaur who don’t want to grow up and most time being represent in his works.

Yudi started his career as a graphic designer in 2003 and was part of a collective of like minded and idealistic young indonesian designers, Ranger Bastards since 2004. The group disbanded early in 2007 and 4 of the original member including Yudi formed a new group called Mode Four. Yudi spread his own character since 2005 and loves to work in various media, a lot of project has been conducted, started from vector graphic, graffiti, instalation, painting, toys, fashion apparel to customized artworks.

With colorful graphic and cute shape of characters, Yudi hope his dino art can spread happiness and smile for all the peoples. Yudi’s agenda includes making his own dino empire and spread the yellow dino all over the world.

Rizky Aditya Nugroho aka Bujangan Urban (Indonesia)

Bujangan Urban is Risky Aditya Nugroho. Become the member of Artcoholic (Jakarta well known graffiti crew) since 2003. His big passion on graffiti bring him into the new experience. His pshycedelic style graffiti artwork has spread from the school wall to the flyover, from his hometown to aboard. He become one of the most importent writers on Indonesian Graffiti scene and inspired many kids to start making graffiti. Curator for POPO Solo Exhibition (numpang nampang) 2010 Artdirector for respectastreetartgalery.com (2010) Artdirector for GARDUHOUSE (2010) Artdirector for Jakarta street art united exhibition (2009)

   Wormo  is  a local street artist who  joined in Toter Crew. Toter Crew consists of kicky and himself that he has formed in mid-2002 Toter is short for Total Terror, is derived from the Malaysian slang word meaning "steady". Start Toter creative in the streets since 2004. They believe that the street is not an act of graffiti vandalism, and the street is a great gallery and free.  Toter also included in the senior community Bomber Wall. Now both are working as a part-time graphic esainer.

  The characters he created very unique and original. He created beings with the formation of organic floral weave with color enough to attract attention. The characters are named Worm Concrete . The lines were very distinctive. Thickness dynamic makes this character different from the other characters. Shiny black eyes, round head, sharp teeth grinning, a variety of color and accompanied by the organic formations become merupkan additional characteristic of this character. This character is actually taught by his father who was also an artist.

KOMA (INDO) X OLDER - TRIBUTE TO NUJABES

KOMA this is character meeting indonesian.

Darbotz for Pantarei

                                             As part of our new #RuangBicara sessions, one of Jakarta's top street
artists, Darbotz, was kind enough to create a piece inside our office,
depicting his famed "Cumi" monster.

Darbotz loves Jakarta very much. For him, the traffic jam, the chaos and the hecticness of Jakarta must be faced by him everyday. That which bring out his visual character of his work. The cumi (squid). A character describes his alter ego in facing the hard city.

Darbotz first signature on the street probably his school gang name back in 1997, from walls, buses, and including at the enemy schools area. After more comprehend visual principles during lectures in 2000-2004, darbotz develop in efforts to create visual characteristics as his own identity, which is shall be recognized without putting his name in the drawing. Unlike graffiti which showing your street name with typography, he explored how to make identity without using any typography. Influenced by hiphop culture with Wu Tang Clan, NWA, A Tribe Called Quest on his tapes he explored and actually able to reconcile himself with the situation of Jakarta urban society which represented by him. Darbotz find alter ego that also reflects the situation of the city that he faces everyday.

He began to make his character on the street in 2004, the character itself always evolve, its like the dynamic of urban society, always evolve. He also one of the founder of Tembokbomber.com, one of the biggest street art and graffiti community in Indonesia.

His visualization style is very distinctive and unique. Darbotz solely uses black and white and a bit of accentuation. This is part of strategy that he uses when work on the streets. Black and white becomes the cure of urban festive colors with a variety of advertising products such as billboards, neon box, and city lights. By using simple color, the picture that he made in the wall able to take the attention in the middle of visual density. Besides working on the street, works of darbotz also attract the attention of some big companies to cooperate. Nike, Google chrome and other companies use darbotz’s work to collaborate. Moreover, darbotz also produce clothing and merchandise product with character that he developed. Through this way the darbotz character transformed in various media as the same citizen who spread and become part of urban culture.

That style was also applied on canvas. Darbotz assume that both patterns that he applies on canvas or on the street are the same. Energy expended, the ideas presented, as well as the techniques applied. But darbotz admits that there are different challenges in each of them. Canvas has a smaller medium, whitle on the street, according to darbotz, there is no space limit, not locked, we can smell the sense on the street, pollution, wind, traffic jams, the sound of cars passing by, and the rest is the same.