The artist started portray shots in 2000. However, after undergoing surgical procedure for cervical most cancers in 2011 and being diagnosed with a shifted backbone in 2015, Mola now paints to relieve her continual pain.
Mola is recently showing her artworks at Bentara Budaya, an exhibition corridor in Yogyakarta, till Feb. 16. Entitled "Edited Clown", the solo exhibition constructive factors a complete of 18 acrylic art work on canvas and 10 watercolors on paper.
Although Mola created her art work whereas in substantial pain, nearly all of her artworks function clowns and brilliant colors, implying completely glad feelings. One of her paintings, entitled Dancing with My Mother, depicts a girl clown carrying a small clown, expressing maternal love.
“Perhaps the clown is me,” she said, referring to the character who strives to make everybody happy, regardless of what she or he might be feeling. As a mother, Mola aimed to create a completely glad residence whilst she struggled with pain.
Being an introvert led her to make use of art work as a medium to exhibit her feelings.
“I can relieve the ache through means of painting. I don’t combat it. Instead, I make peace with the illnesses given through means of God,” she said.
Mola stated she selected to no longer take the medications prescribed through means of doctors, but to deal with her illnesses herself through means of painting.
To herself, she asserted that she was no longer a sick consumer and she created the artworks so she would all the time be remembered through means of her kids and grandchildren.
“When I create an acrylic painting, I can work as much as seven hours and it [helps] to relieve my pain,” she said.
Art curator Asmujo Jono Irianto wrote within the exhibition catalog that Mola was a self-taught painter who didn't care about art theories. Asmujo wrote that for Mola the primary factor was the act of painting, no longer easy methods to paint, including that the painter's expressionist kind might compete with works through means of art faculty graduates.
Likewise, art enthusiast Benny Santosa Halim, who opened the exhibition, shared his admiration.
“She is a difficult woman. [It requires] vast energy to combat the illnesses and Mola can rework it right into a certain energy,” stated Benny. (jes/wng)