Nurul Hayat "Acil" & Marbod Fritsch

Nurul Hayat (Acil) Tasikmalaya, Indonesia.
He is currently studying for a post-graduate degree in painting at the Art Institutes of Yogyakarta. He has shown his work in cities such as Yogyakarta, Jakarta or Surabaya. His passion for exploring fine art materials encourages him especially to play with used newspapers. Working on his art work is a process that leads to happiness for Acil, even though his work tends to be critical concerning issues happening around him. His visual language is made for the public who are the recipients of his messages. For he does not want to create distance between himself and the public audience.

Personal statement to the collaboration with Marbod Fritsch in To Know The Unknown
There is a difficulty in language. Not only in literal translations but in interpretations too for example in poetry. Out of this interpretation I materialize visual imagery. There is a lot of possibilities to translate these interpretations. They could be video, an installation or a painting. Overall, I conclude it as drama in life. Therefore I use ‘gunungan’ as representation for this drama. In which the beginning and ending of a story appear in one object. I compare it with stories from different places in different visual shapes. The used language is ‘gunungan’ language.

Marbod Fritsch Bregenz, Austria.
He lives and works in Bregenz and Vienna
1987 - 1992 Vienna University of Applied Arts, 1992 graduation
Since 1989 numerous exhibitions at home and abroad.

Personal statement on the collaboration with Nurul Hayat for To Know The Unknown
I am looking forward to the moment when I finally can see my "double translated" picture. This visual result is a logical and radical continuation of my artwork investigating the precision and potential of misunderstanding of language.

Images from the collaboration