Adresse: Sika Gallery, Jl. Raya Campuhan, Sayan, Kecamatan Ubud, Kabupaten Gianyar
In September of 2021, Devy Ferdianto, master printer and artist with over thirty years of experience, decided to found the DEVFTO Printmaking Institute in Bali. It is a new centre intended to support the development of printing and Indonesian fine arts in general. Situated in the SIKA Gallery in Ubud, the studio, open to the public and art collectors, works in tight contact with artists in creating numbered reprints using ink on paper and other various techniques, such as cyano-typing, copper engraving, etching, silk-screening, mono-typing and lithography. A location which is also a gallery where the artists can also exhibit their works.
Pura Sada Kapal: the temple that changes for faith and for the ages
The vicissitudes linked to its destruction due to an earthquake and its reconstruction due to the faith of the inhabitants of the village in which it is located, make it a place with a fascinating and unique history and appearance.
The Unconventional Choices of an Art Gallery in Seminyak
Purpa Art Gallery Bali opened its first gallery in Ubud in 1970. The owner, I Nyoman Purpa, was one of Indonesia’s most prominent curators and collectors. In 2014, her daughter Ari Purpa opened her own gallery in Seminyak, specializing in modern and contemporary art by Indonesian and European artists.
When Michael White, then a young architecture student from Sydney, set sail for Bali in 1973, he was so impressed by the island that he decided never to go back. Made Wijaya, this is the name he gave himself after his conversion to Hinduism, mapped the historic buildings and tropical gardens of Bali, leaving a photographic heritage of great value.
Written by Balinese scholar Professor I Made Bandem and American art historian Bruce W. Carpenter, this stunning study of masks as an ancient art form is a richly illustrated book, with over 1000 color images by photographer Doddy Obenk.
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