FAUSSE NOTE Exhibition

Born in 1973 on the island of Java, Indonesia, Nurhidayat graduated from Fine Arts in Bandung in 1994. Originally, it was the socio-political context of his country that rocked his artistic influences and led him to build a solid reputation in the world of Contemporary Art in Asia. It was from 2005 that the artist decided to settle in France to evolve on the international scene.

After the series "Devouring Images" presented in 2018 at the Valérie Eymeric gallery, Nurhidayat has been developing since 2020 a new series entitled "Fausse note" in which he continues his research on the ambiguities of our time, giving a central place to the image, abundant in our contemporary societies. The paintings he will give us to see in the fall of 2022 crystallize a very special elegance, sometimes in an atmosphere of old American thriller where the femme fatale and the businessman, masked, rub shoulders with incredible characters like a panda or a flamingo. This particular universe will evolve within the gallery alongside its grisailles composed of anachronistic characters playing the piano under the canopy joined by uprooted animals like in zoos. From this constellation of singular images, the artist gives birth to a completely unique world, a world where poetry rubs shoulders with the imagination, a world where this patchwork of images becomes a whole in its own right, a world filled with wrong notes.

The emergence of Nurhidayat's painting is based on two a priori antinomic ideas which are that of the permanence of ancient mythologies, which are the subject of an almost anthropological treatment and that of a completely legitimate aspiration to the recognition of a contemporaneity of rupture, both within his own society and in the eyes of the world.
Thus, by admiring, capturing, and betraying its artistic heritage, Nurhidayat offers us centuries of artistic exploration and crossed itineraries which then open up as much to dance and instruments as to landscapes and rites that continue to fascinate us. At the end of this exploration? Everything is then played in the wrong note that arises from this incongruity of the pictorial composition and the importance of the message conveyed.