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| A torso or half body sculpture is usually carved from stone or wood and, therefore, always perceived as heavy. However, Iriantine Karnaya, who makes torsos from bronze, has done away completely with that tradition. The heavy-look has been transformed into something light using techniques such as a sheet of fabric tightly wound around it leaving only an hollow space on the inside - because under the wrapping the actual figure has disappeared. Like a cocoon deserted by the butterfly. |
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However, sculpting torsos such as these are not the sole interest of Tine, as her friends know her. Her other works are figurative, abstract, symbolic and narrative. “Maybe it is my nature to dislike being bound to a certain style. On the contrary, I try to make this life as interesting as I possibly can,” she says. She admits, she can work on four or five sculptures in different styles at the same time. “Ants & Sugar” her statue created from mixed media, won an award in 1998 at the Jakarta Triennale II, the Indonesian Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition. Repeatedly she exposes images of living creatures in her works, such as snails, shrimps, caterpillars, butterflies, leaves and flowers. A sculptor an also a lecturer at the University of Indonesia and the Jakarta Art Institute, she often displays various symbols like eyes, drops of water etc. |
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| Her feminist experience also richly colors her works as shown in a male statue seated over his sideway folded legs, portraying the last position in “shalat” the Moslem daily praying ritual. In Tine’s opinion that position impressively signifies femininity. Other works linked with femininity and power includes “Flower Power” presented at the 2001 API (Association of Indonesian Sculptors) exhibition at the National Gallery in Jakarta. This work has now become part of the Sharjah Museum collection in the United Arab Emirates. |
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| Tine graduated from the Sculpture Art Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts of ITB (Bandung Institute of Technology) in 1975 when the embryo of contemporary art began to emerge. This era gave birth to a group called the New Fine Art Movement as well as various other groups. Their works tended to be experimental. This became the gateway to pluralism in art. Although Tine did not belong to any specific group, her works reflect this trend in their wide variety of styles. In this 2003 API exhibition she presents “Tears of War III” an outdoor sculpture. |
