Roby Dwi Antono
April 2 – 17, 2022
Galerie Stephanie
Unit 4021 East Wing, Shangri-La Plaza Mall, EDSA cor. Shaw Boulevard, 1552 Mandaluyong, Philippines
In his latest solo exhibition, Roby Dwi Antono rouses the artist’s Japanese pop culture influences, among which are the television media that 90s kids grew up watching and the burgeoning independent comics culture of Indonesia during that decade.
“Intensity, Intimately” anchors on this along with a childhood reverence for superheroes and a fascination for Kaiju, a type of monster similar to Godzilla that is either an antagonist or protagonist. The artist uses the duality of the Kaiju as a mythical creature and expounds on this concept through the lens of a child forming a parasocial relationship with the TV characters they grew up watching.
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