Widodo Kabutdo

ARTIST STATEMENT
Widodo Kabutdo is a visual artist whose practice traverses multiple media, including painting, installation, performance, and site-based works. His artistic approach emerges from a re-reading of lived experience, reflected through the relationships between the human body, nature, and materiality within contemporary life.
Since the early 2000s, his interest in drawing practices and environmental issues has shaped a visual sensibility that remains consistent to this day. Beginning in 2005, found plastic became a central axis of his artistic practice. Plastic is not treated as a moral symbol or an instrument of environmental advocacy, but rather as a marker of its time—a manufactured material that carries traces of consumption, human circulation, and artificial ecological systems that endure beyond the human body.
The process of collecting materials is an integral part of his practice. Used plastics, with their folds, tears, stains, and varying degrees of transparency, are treated as surfaces that have already “spoken” prior to artistic intervention. Widodo applies minimal intervention, allowing the material’s inherent characteristics to play an active role in the formation of imagery.
Human figures, bodily fragments,...

autodidact

EXPERIENCE
Selected group-Solo Action
2020 : Fall Exhibition ll Rano d'oro Napoli ,Italy
2019. : Setelah ini Hanya Text Rumah

2013 :~OUT OF FREM~ RODAart Project Maha art Gallery Denpasar
Bali.
:~TREASURE~ SWOON Gallery , Bali
:~INSIEME~ at Trah Gallery , Bali ACT Project,in Bali
:~OUTBACK~ JPS alternative artspace, Denpasar Bali.
:~BALI ON THE MOVE ~art Project Bali Art Society at
MAHA ART GALLERY Denpasar Bali

2012 :~HUMANIORA Collaboration, Visual art Theater Exhibition
at Terasseni Art Space , Ubud- Bali.
:~RetreArt Gaya Fusion Art Space, Sayan Ubud-Bali.

2011 :~Ba-Be(Barang Bekas)Responding to Environment issue, at
Terasseni Artspace Ubud-Bali.

2006 :~Bandung Masa Kini competition selected 50 best work of
artin the West Java(#1),IM(IndonesiaMenggugat)Gallery
Kita,West Java.
:~Titik 0-500 Squer Center Tegal, Central Java.
:~Manusia Dan Tembaga Body Painting+Installation,Bandung
West Java.
:~Mata Semesta exhibition with children, Hall Dimensi.
Cimaahi,West Java.
:~Ciblek Simpang Lima” Public ArtInstallation,atSemarang,
central Java.

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