Unblocked From Thailand, 17 Magelang-Yogyakarta Perupa Holding Exhibition In Borobudur Temple Area

A number of people witnessed the painting in an exhibition with two brokerage communities, KSBI Magelang-Komunity Movement Yogyakarta, at Limanjawi Art House Borobudur, Magelang Regency, Central Java, Sunday (18/12/2022). ANTARA/Hari Atmoko

A total of two Magelang and Yogyakarta enterprise communities held a painting exhibition at Limanjawi Art House, Borobudur Temple area, Magelang Regency, Central Java. This exhibition was held as a form of gratitude because the COVID-19 pandemic is getting sloping.

"This exhibition in Limanjawi as a form of gratitude for the pandemic has begun to disappear," said Limanjawi Art House manager Borobudur Umar Chusaeni in Magelang, Sunday, December 18, quoted from Antara.

The exhibition with a total of 53 paintings is titled "Struggle" and "Spirit of Java IV". The two communities in question come from the Indonesian Borobudur Artist Community (KSBI) of Magelang Regency, totaling 12 figures, and the Yogyakarta Movement Community.

The opening of the exhibition, among others, was marked by the people's dance performance "Jingkrak Sundang" by the people's artists of the Sanggar Saujana Group, Keron, Magelang Regency, and the mutual gains were shared by the audience.

The exhibition by the artists of the two communities was opened by a monk from Thailand who was with 500 Buddhists from several regions in Indonesia undergoing Pabbajja Samamnera activities at Borobudur Temple on December 15-26, 2022.

Umar explained the importance of being grateful because the pandemic cases are increasingly sloping, after various efforts to control and handle the government together with all strengths and elements of society, so that community activities tend to return to normal while still complying with health protocols.

"Of course we all experience difficult things during the pandemic, now the situation is getting better, then starting to move together, artists continue to work, tourism is also starting to work, art is moving again. This (art of art performance, ed.) is a form of our gratitude," he said.

He also said that the exhibition at Limanjawi Art House, about 600 meters east of Borobudur Temple, became a gathering room for all groups, especially cultural arts and tourism actors.

"Because this tourism will also move, it cannot be separated from cultural arts," he said after the opening of the exhibition which was attended by various art actors and connoisseurs of cultural arts, especially from Magelang and Yogyakarta.

A Burst from the Yogyakarta Movement Community, Ledek Sukade, explained that the artist group's commitment to lifting and digging objects and work ideas is related to the cultural traditions and life order of the Javanese people who are rich in meaning and artistic.

"We as Javanese feel that we have (cultural tradition, ed.), if we don't document it via visual, maybe for future generations we will forget, what will be the portrait of the Javanese people before," he said.

He mentioned a number of characteristics by community artists, including the imposition of lurik and kemeng clothes, people's dances, wayang performances, herbal carrying, rickshaws, and hanging out.

"If this manual tricycle had been shifted to a motorized tricycle, I imagine this is an object that has been shifted by the times, so I document it," he said.

The exhibition in the Borobudur Temple area will take place from 18 December 2022 to 8 January 2023.