Perahu Panjang Installation By Jose Freitascruz
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Artist:
Jose Freitascruz
Title:
Perahu Panjang
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Year:
2005
Medium:
Size - (USA):
60 W x 300 H x 240 D (cm)
Size - (metric):
23.6 W x 118.1 H x 94.5 D (inches)
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Edition:
Original
Artwork ID:
330277
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Artwork Description:
piece initially made for the exhibition [x?] artists - one boat in Brunei and shown again in Portugal at Cascais Cultural centre in the show 3 men in a boat with artists Rui Ao and fernando Vidal. See more images in the events feature: long-boat: in my contribution to the project [x?] artists one boat [a project that i organised in brunei bringing together 15 artists] I tried to synthesize three distinctive elements I identify primarily with borneo: the rain, the jungle and the rivers; and only secondarily the boat itself and its social and cultural significance within this ecosystem. Using basic elements to represent those primary factors - steel filaments, wooden planks and a curved white stroke - I believe the fundamental suggestion of the curvature of a boat has also been achieved. This in itself would have been enough to explain the inclusion of this particular piece but I still felt that something was lacking. The work felt incomplete and remained in limbo for some time while I struggled with the urge to place the knots I sometimes tie into my paintings. At first I did not know how to justify the inclusion of this fourth element but then it occurred to me that the speed of a boat is expressed in knots!
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