Tatang B Sp

Tatang B.Sp. is an Indonesian artist who started as a professional artist twenty years ago. Born in Tegal, Central Java, and has lived in Bali since 1986. He studied at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Udayana University, Denpasar, Bali, from 1986 to 1992.

Actively exhibiting throughout Indonesia, he has earned a number of awards and was among the top ten winners in the 1998 Philip Morris Indonesia Art Awards 1998.

He is a self-taught artist who recently used the surrealist method in his artwork. Surrealism refers to the idea of an independent reality existing "underside" our conscious reality. A method that combines logic with the irrational, dream with reality to create a fictional reality; a reality that is different from pure reality. Tatang presents a poetic mood in most of his paintings as an expression of soul, thought, and emotion.


AWARDS
1998 The Top Ten Winners in the Phillip Morris Indonesia Art Awards V.
1999 Finalist The Windsor and Newton Competition Indonesia.


MUSEUM COLLECTION
2008 Artwork with the title of “Borderless” is collected by the Switzerland Lausanne Olympics Museum.

Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Udayana University

1998
Indonesian Art Award V, National Gallery Indonesia, Jakarta.

1999
The Windsor and Newton Competition, Hidayat Gallery, Bandung.

2000
Indonesian Art Award VII, National Gallery Indonesia, Jakarta.
Millenium Sanggar Dewata Indonesia, ARMA Museum, Ubud, Bali.

2001
Beyond Shape, Jezz Gallery, Denpasar, Bali.
The Lost Generation, Chedy Gallery, Ubud, Bali.

2003
Interpellation, CP Open Biennale, National Gallery Indonesia, Jakarta.

2004
Bali Temptation, Langgeng Gallery Magelang and V-Gallery Jakarta.

2005
Space and Scape, Summit Event Bali Biennale 2005, Darga Gallery, Bali.
The Realistage, Goong Gallery Bandung, Semar Gallery Malang, and Museum H. Widayat Magelang.

2006
Behind the Realism, V-Art Gallery, Yogyakarta.

2007
A Beautiful Death, Bentara Budaya Yogyakarta.
Reality Of Objects, Artsphere Gallery, Jakarta.

2008
Manifesto, National Gallery Indonesia, Jakarta.
Olympic Fine Arts 2008, Beijing, China.

2009
Poli[chromatic], Bentara Budaya Yogyakarta.
Real[i]ti, Vanessa Art Link, Jakarta.

2010
Bazaar Art Jakarta, Green ArtSpace, Jakarta.
Myth Of Beauty, Green Artspace, Jakarta.

2012
Sudamala: An Artistic Journey, Sudakara Artspace, Sanur, Bali.

2013
Bali Art Fair 2013 : Bali on the Move, Tonyr...