Indonesian contemporary artist Aditya Novali was one of the nominees for Best Emerging Artist Using Installation at the Prudential Eye Awards.
At the Southeast Asia Forum in Art Stage Singapore 2016, Novali presented his work NGACO : Solution for Nation in 2014 – a shop composed of defective items with confusing value, which he described as “typical” in his mother country. From brand image to products, Aditya has created an unique shopping experience for viewers to re-examine the notion of building and material.
About Aditya Novali
(b. 1978, Indonesia)
Aditya Novali was born in 1978 in Solo, Central Java. From 1997 to 2002 he studied architecture at Parahyangan University in Bandung. It is evident that architecture school influenced his work to become more structural and formalistic. Subsequently he studied conceptual design at the Design Academy Eindhoven, Holland. In recent years he has been working on various concepts around ideas such as boundaries, identity and nation. In 2010 he presented his “rotatable painting”, which focused on interaction as a way to communicate and challenge an audience. This was followed by The Wall: Asian Un(real) Estate project (2011), Identifying Indonesia (2012) and NGACO (2014).
More recently he has tried to trace back his early passion in drawing and mathematics, emotion and calculation, archive and imagination, in more recent contexts. This can be seen in his Painting Sense, The Order (2014) and Conversation Unknown (2015).
Check out our exclusive interview :
Aditya Novali: The Poetics of Transformation by Naima Morelli