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Prints reveal art of dharma |
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 Cambodia
The titles of Loeum Lorn Lorn’s works – Everything is Connected, Constant Flux, The Non-Self – offer a handy insight to their significance for the artist. “My work has a very close connection with the dharma and with Buddhism,” Loeum Lorn explains, “and the dharma is like a natural law to me.”
Although they may appear to the casual coffee-drinker at Java Café & Gallery simply as pretty, abstract images, these works are in fact invested with an astonishingly complex array of religious, philosophical and personal meanings.
In a series of 13 photographs prin-ted on canvas, along with a short video, the exhibition Yesterday, No More is a quietly rapturous celebration of chance and impermanence.
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Inspired by Aceh Headstones |
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 Eight Decades of A.D. Pirous:
A special event was recently held at the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) to commemorate the 80th birthday of calligraphy painter, A.D. Pirous. The weathered Arabic writings found on old graves in Aceh continue to be his source of inspiration.
A vertical red glow runs upward alongside a pair of wavy outer lines. It is shaped like a curved blade, a combination between a knife and a keris dagger. They cut across the yellow, red and brown background. This collision of colors makes the tip of the line like an arrow's tip, bringing out the black and the dark around it. The painting Alif Menuju Langit (Skywards A) gives the impression of a mighty beam of light.
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 Indonesia
Artists from all over the world lived together and socialized with the villagers of Jatiwangi. They created works of art that invite people to recycle rubbish.
The heavy rain and thunder receded in the afternoon. But the last remnants of the rain had soaked the 50 villagers who had gathered at the Jatiwangi Art Factory at Jatisura Village in Jatiwangi, West Java, on Wednesday two weeks ago. They wanted to be there for the opening of the exhibition After the Rain, comprising the works of five resident artists from Germany, Spain, Japan and Indonesia, which will be on display until March 21.
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Portraying Suu Kyi on screen |
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 Luc Besson took the story of Myanmar's democracy icon, Aung San Suu Kyi, and brought it to the silver screen. Played by actress Michelle Yeoh, Suu Kyi in the movie, easily broke into tears.
The Lady
Director: Luc Besson
Writer: Rebecca Frayn
Stars: Michelle Yeoh, David Thewlis, Jonathan Raggett
With a garland of yellow flowers around her neck and purple orchids in her hair, a lady steps forward. She walks slowly toward a dozen military officers, all lined up in a row and armed with AK-47s. "Do not move forward or we will shoot! I will count to three!" shouted the commander of the troops.
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