APOTIK KOMIK(ARI DIYANTO, SAMUEL INDRATMA, POPOK-TRI WAHYUDI, BAMBANG TOKO)
The Indoneisian group Apotik Komik, founded in 1997, employed the popular appeal of comic books as a tool for communicating with the public. The group's principal members included Arie Diyanto, Samuel Indratma and Popok-Tri Wahyudi, Bambang Toko all of whom have been passionate about comics since art school. Their work often took the form of graphic drawings on external walls, even though such behavior was prohibited by the dictatorship of former President Suharto. These murals, which incorporate artistic symbols and metaphors into what can be seen as three-dimensional comic strips, cryptically and humorously presented the group's views on politics and society without being mocking or subversive.
With this easily accessible, mobile public art, made with easily acquired materials and a practicality suited to local conditions, Apotik Komik hoped to effect exchange and interaction between communities in order to awaken an alternative consciousness and new form of communication in an environment rife with political propaganda, censorship, and commercial advertisements.
For the next few years Apotik Komik engaged in several collective art projects in public spaces and alternative locations throughout various Indonesian cities. Photographs, news clippings, books, CDs, DVDs, postcards, and albums document these large-scale murals and installations. More recently, the members of Apotik Komik have concentrated less on these group initiatives and more on individual projects, including underground comics and other artworks.-A.C.
http://www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com/smallpress/10465862734747.html
http://www.universes-in-universe.de/asia/idn/awas/09/
http://www.seasite.niu.edu/indonesian/kartun/Apotik/apotik_bkgrnd.htm
http://www.stretcher.org/projects/editors/2002/issue2/mw/apotik_mw.php
Founded in 1997 by Ari Diyanto(Born 1974 in Klaten, Indonesia)
Samuel Indratma (Born 1970 in Gombong, Indonesia)
Tri Wahyudi(Popok) (Born 1973 in Mojokerto, Indonesia)
Bambang Toko in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Based in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Apotik Komik Archive, -2004
Slide projection, photographs, books
Dimensions variable
Slide projection, photographs, books
Dimensions variable
Apotik Komik(Samuel Indratma, Tri Wahyudi, Ari Dyant)
Container outside of UnderEstimate(detail) , 1999
Container outside of UnderEstimate(detail) , 1999
Popok-Tri Wahyudi
The Birth of the Guardian, 1999
The Birth of the Guardian, 1999
The Indoneisian group Apotik Komik, founded in 1997, employed the popular appeal of comic books as a tool for communicating with the public. The group's principal members included Arie Diyanto, Samuel Indratma and Popok-Tri Wahyudi, Bambang Toko all of whom have been passionate about comics since art school. Their work often took the form of graphic drawings on external walls, even though such behavior was prohibited by the dictatorship of former President Suharto. These murals, which incorporate artistic symbols and metaphors into what can be seen as three-dimensional comic strips, cryptically and humorously presented the group's views on politics and society without being mocking or subversive.
With this easily accessible, mobile public art, made with easily acquired materials and a practicality suited to local conditions, Apotik Komik hoped to effect exchange and interaction between communities in order to awaken an alternative consciousness and new form of communication in an environment rife with political propaganda, censorship, and commercial advertisements.
For the next few years Apotik Komik engaged in several collective art projects in public spaces and alternative locations throughout various Indonesian cities. Photographs, news clippings, books, CDs, DVDs, postcards, and albums document these large-scale murals and installations. More recently, the members of Apotik Komik have concentrated less on these group initiatives and more on individual projects, including underground comics and other artworks.-A.C.
http://www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com/smallpress/10465862734747.html
http://www.universes-in-universe.de/asia/idn/awas/09/
http://www.seasite.niu.edu/indonesian/kartun/Apotik/apotik_bkgrnd.htm
http://www.stretcher.org/projects/editors/2002/issue2/mw/apotik_mw.php