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Sinta Tantra
Some Like It Hot -
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Highlights and collections
Sinta Tantra's artworks can be found in international private and public collections, including Government Art Collection UK; Louis Vuitton Collection Southeast Asia; Karachi Biennale; Benetton Collection; Folkestone Triennial, Canary Wharf; Tumurun Museum, Indonesia; Museum MACAN, Indonesia. In 2024, Tantra was nominated for the Sovereign Asian Art Prize. Tantra is a recipient of many awards including the Bridget Riley Drawing Fellow at The British School at Rome (2017); Shortlisted for the Jerwood Contemporary Painting Prize (2015); British Council’s International Development Award (2014); First Prize, Painting and Decorating Industry Award (2012);The Royal British Society of Sculptors AHRBS (2012); British Council Grant (2009); Courvoisir ‘The Future 500’ in partnership with The Observer Newspaper (2009); Arts Council England (2007); and Deutsche Bank Award (2006), Paul Smith Scholarship at the Royal Academy of Arts (2003-2006) and the Henry Moore Sculpture Fund (2002).
Public commissions include: Sunset Ombre, One Satrio, Mega Kunigan, Jakarta, Indonesia (2022); Pink Moon Rising, Seolhaewon, Gangwon-Do, South Korea (2021); Temple of Flora, Ocean Flower Island, Hainan (2021); Illuminated, 22 Bishopsgate, London commissioned by Contemporary Art Society, UK (2021); The Grand Tour, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK (2020); The Crossing Mount Daemo, The H Honor Hills, Seoul commissioned by Hyundai, South Korea (2021); Poins Square, Jakarta, Indonesia (2020); Horizon to Horizon, Sharjah Islamic Arts Festival, Sharjah (2019); Bright Dawn, Karachi Biennale, Karachi (2019); Compose Motions and Tasted Flight, Honer Hills, Seoul commissioned by Hyundai, South Korea (2019); Sunset in Tanah Lot, Facebook, London, UK (2018); Collaboration with Nick Hornby, Broadgate sites, London, UK (2018); In the Mood for Love, Lee Tung Avenue, Hong Kong (2018); Paintworks, commissioned by Crest Nicholson, Bristol, UK (2018); 1947, Folkestone Triennial, Folkestone (2017); Pailo Drappallone, Commune di Siena, Italy (2017); Diamond Minutes, Hana Bank, Incheon, South Korea (2017); The Sound of Colour, St. Paul’s Way Medical Centre, London, UK (2017); A Union in Partition, private commission, London, UK (2016); A Means of Liberation, Newnham College, Cambridge University, UK (2016); Songdo, South Korean Government, South Korea (2015); Sensory Garden, Bristol Royal Infirmary Hospital, Bristol, UK (2015); The Eccentricity of Zero, Royal British Society Sculptors, London, UK (2015); Greater Reality of Elsewhere, Locwus International, Swansea, UK (2015); The Eccentricity of Zero, Royal British Society of Sculptors, Holland Park, London, UK (2013); Together Yet Forever Apart, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK (2012); A Beautiful Sunset Mistaken For a Dawn, Canary Wharf, London, UK (2012); A Good Time and a Half!, Southbank Centre, London, UK (2007). Neon Tetra, CreateKX, Camley Street Natural Park, London, UK (2007); Isokon Dreams, London Borough of Camden, Regents Park Bridge, London, UK (2007); Line Up, Platform for Art, Piccadily Tube Station, London, UK (2007); Emporia, London Fashion Week’s On|Off, 6 Burlington Gardens, London, UK (2006); Party Surprise, Christchurch University, Canterbury, UK (2006); Tantra’s most notable public work includes a 300-metre long painted bridge commissioned for the 2012 Olympics, Canary Wharf, London, UK. -
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The use of doubling in this show is inspired by the film’s playful exploration of gender roles and mistaken identities – when the characters Joe (Tony Curtis) and Jerry (Jack Lemmon) disguise themselves as women to join an all-female band. It also resonates with Tantra’s own complex relationship with her identity as a woman who identifies with and embodies multiple cultures. We can imagine holding them as objects, the way they might feel against our skin. They also evoke the idea of costumes or masks, inviting us to explore or ‘try on’ different ways of being. ‘Some Like It Hot was ahead of its time in terms of talking about gender and sexuality in a very entertaining and accessible way. The film is really about the freedom and creativity that comes from fluidity,’ says Tantra.At times, Tantra’s forms are reminiscent of figures, arched and soaring through space, while at others they evoke tropical flowers connecting to her Balinese roots and the climate of Florida as well to traditional portrayals of femininity. Meanwhile, the circular shapes that appear at varying scales are a recurring motif in Tantra’s work, referencing the Balinese lunar calendar and meditation practices. Rendered in gold leaf, some circles seem to draw on mythological ideas of transformation that occur in moonlight while also playing on ideas around vanity and reflection. Other circles, left in raw canvas, offer a pause, space to breathe within the density and clamour of colour. Stripped back to bare material in which we can glimpse the warp and weave of the linen, they seem to capture a feeling of vulnerability, the essence of self that lingers beneath our performances and grounds us.In this way, the exhibition transforms the gallery into more than just a space for viewing art, it becomes a platform for experimentation, self-reflection, and play.
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Sinta Tantra : Some Like It Hot
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