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Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The painter Fendry Ekel (born 1971, Jakarta) is based in Berlin and Yogyakarta. Ekel's works have been displayed Internationally: the Netherlands, France, Belgium, Spain, Mexico, Italy, Turkey, Czech Republic, Singapore, South Africa, the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia and the United States.As Benjamin Genocchio writes in his article in the New York Times (22.01.2010), regarding Ekel's solo show 'Witness' at HVCCA New York: Fendry Ekel is a painter with much to say:\"[...] Mr. Ekel is primarily a painter, producing colorful works on paper that mix media and techniques, including gouache, acrylic painting and drawing. Each of the paintings being shown here is well crafted and attractively presented [...]..— a loose expressionistic realism — the content gives you pause for thought, and the economical use of symbolic imagery gives the pictures raw visual force. As a starting point for viewing the exhibition, I would encourage visitors to dip into the excellent, informative catalog. It helps explain the social, political and cultural underpinnings of the works. Mr. Ekel has a great deal to say about the world we live in [...]. Take “The Dutchman Willem Oltmans as George Washington” (2008), a cartoonish painting of a middle-aged white man with blond hair dressed up as the first president. It is at a glance an innocuous-looking portrait, reminding you a little of an Andy Warhol screen print. But this work has a political message. Reading about the painting in the exhibition catalog, we learn that Mr. Oltmans, who died in 2004, was a Dutch journalist with political connections to the Sukarno regime in Indonesia. In Mr. Ekel’s eyes, he was a powerful figure who helped change the destiny of a nation.\"Willem Oltmans” is one of the show’s few portraits. The artist mostly paints late-20th-century buildings and architectural interiors, conveyed with a minimum of detail and information. This makes them seem oddly simple but mysterious. Several paintings here depict the Century 21 department store and the nearby Millennium Hilton hotel in Lower Manhattan. They were done in 2006, based on snapshots. They are impressionistic night scenes, denuded of people, capturing reflections and the play of light. The paintings are linked to the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, once located across the street from Century 21, for the memory of what happened on 9/11 continues to resonate in the stone and glass of surviving buildings nearby. Mr. Ekel’s blurry, weirdly depopulated night scenes are all about memory and loss.'"@en }

• Fendry_Ekel abstract "The painter Fendry Ekel (born 1971, Jakarta) is based in Berlin and Yogyakarta. Ekel's works have been displayed Internationally: the Netherlands, France, Belgium, Spain, Mexico, Italy, Turkey, Czech Republic, Singapore, South Africa, the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia and the United States.As Benjamin Genocchio writes in his article in the New York Times (22.01.2010), regarding Ekel's solo show 'Witness' at HVCCA New York: Fendry Ekel is a painter with much to say:\"[...] Mr. Ekel is primarily a painter, producing colorful works on paper that mix media and techniques, including gouache, acrylic painting and drawing. Each of the paintings being shown here is well crafted and attractively presented [...]..— a loose expressionistic realism — the content gives you pause for thought, and the economical use of symbolic imagery gives the pictures raw visual force. As a starting point for viewing the exhibition, I would encourage visitors to dip into the excellent, informative catalog. It helps explain the social, political and cultural underpinnings of the works. Mr. Ekel has a great deal to say about the world we live in [...]. Take “The Dutchman Willem Oltmans as George Washington” (2008), a cartoonish painting of a middle-aged white man with blond hair dressed up as the first president. It is at a glance an innocuous-looking portrait, reminding you a little of an Andy Warhol screen print. But this work has a political message. Reading about the painting in the exhibition catalog, we learn that Mr. Oltmans, who died in 2004, was a Dutch journalist with political connections to the Sukarno regime in Indonesia. In Mr. Ekel’s eyes, he was a powerful figure who helped change the destiny of a nation.\"Willem Oltmans” is one of the show’s few portraits. The artist mostly paints late-20th-century buildings and architectural interiors, conveyed with a minimum of detail and information. This makes them seem oddly simple but mysterious. Several paintings here depict the Century 21 department store and the nearby Millennium Hilton hotel in Lower Manhattan. They were done in 2006, based on snapshots. They are impressionistic night scenes, denuded of people, capturing reflections and the play of light. The paintings are linked to the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, once located across the street from Century 21, for the memory of what happened on 9/11 continues to resonate in the stone and glass of surviving buildings nearby. Mr. Ekel’s blurry, weirdly depopulated night scenes are all about memory and loss.'".