Djoko Pekik (1937-2023)
Monday, August 21, 2023
Djoko Pekik’s canvases are always filled with humor, never tension. They were made for us, with us, to entertain us, and remind us.
DJOKO Pekik was down to earth, familiar with the ground beneath his feet. The dominant color on his canvases was brown, interspersed with a scattering of green: the color of fields beneath a warm sun. His brush strokes were lumpy, rough, and hardy, not ornamental.
His canvases were inhabited by faces and postures commonly found at the edges of rice fields, in a village in Grobogan, where he grew up.
These figures never seemed to leave him, nor
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