WeAreResin by Salihara Gallery & MyTummyToys

WE ARE RESIN is a group exhibition of five toy artists / toy sculpture artists - namely; Arkiv, Breeanz, cikcuk, Jouwe, The Yellow Dino - which are based or located in Bandung Indonesia. The event launches December 17th at Salihara Gallery, and exhibits thru Dec 21st. As part f the festivities, the opening party also features Popriot Dj Squad spinning on deck. I've been covering these guys and their works for a few years now, and it is extremely cool indeed to see the guys featured in an event like this!

"The focus lies on making handmade toy sculptures based on resin. Usually art toys are made of plastic / vinyl / soft vinyl and industrial produced in a big quantity. But throughout their close relationship with My Tummy Toys, a Bandung based art toy company, with the orientation on producing limited handsculpted art toy sculptures, and which produced the art toy sculptures for the five artists, the output of their toys is very small and in a low quantity. Because of that, the artists are able to work more closer on details, concept and design of their toys, and are able to develop steps in creating new toys more faster. Furthermore there is no pressure on the quantity, and the toys are all hand-sculpted, though the quality is very high and better then industrial produced vinyl toys.

We Are Resin is a proud statement to showcase skills in technique and design of making toys in a traditional way, 100% hand made and 100% made by local material as well."

Salihara Gallery
Jalan Salihara 16, Pasar Minggu, Jakarta Selatan,
Indonesia 12520 Tel. 021-789-1202 Fax.
021-780-5180
http://salihara.org