A Soul ever in Motion
Tommy Tanggara's work, Aesthetic, 130X140 CM, 2006. Tulisan singkat di bawah ini dimuat dalam katalog untuk mengiringi pameran tunggal Tommy "Tatto" Tanggara di sebuah galeri di Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, awal Mei 2008. Pameran ini bertajuk Rapture in the Soul ) By Kuss Indarto A sort of adage tells us that viewing a work of art may mean perceiving two integrated worlds of basics, namely the world of forms and that of ideas. The first deals more with visual and technical phenomena that are superficial and elementary, including, among others, color, line, field, and composition. Here we may meet with hat we categorize as scribbling, the iconic, the symbolic, the realistic and the abstract. They are the expressions, and could be reflections as well, of artists regarding realities or, quite the reverse, realized imaginations. They are things immediately visible when we appreciate works of art. The second, namely the ideational world, concerns with the aspect of “substances” th...