SAKAN AD NRAEKTHISANA : THE RISE & FALL OF NRAEKTHI CIVILIZATION
2024 | graphite pencil, colored pencil, watercolour, marker, acrylic ink, & acrylic gouache on stained 300 gsm paper.
5 panels (40 x 40 cm, 60 x 60 cm, 80 x 80 cm, 100 x 100 cm, 120 x 120 cm)
Having an interest in the mystery of life and viewing the world as a kind of exhilarating, grand cosmic dance, Dede Cipon (born in Balikpapan, 1995) takes various inspirations from mystical, philosophical and scientific subjects to study, interpret and express their beauty through his works. Over the past few years, the mix of symbolic imagery and diagrams in his works has been inspired by a variety of spiritual traditions, folk art, scientific diagrams, and science fiction.
His interests and perspective are expressed through drawing, painting, printing and several digital formats.
Currently Dede lives and works in Yogyakarta and has completed graphic arts studies at Indonesia Institute of the Arts, Yogyakarta (ISI). He held a solo exhibition entitled As Above So Below - As Within So Without, STEM Projects from Srisasanti Syndicate (2023) and several local and international exhibitions including, ART SG, Singapore (2024), Art Jakarta (2023), On Connectivity, Cohesion Initiatives (2022), and Cosmic Dreams, Electric Reflections, Space Hanjeom, South Korea (2020)
This work is Dede Cipon's prediction of what might happen to the earth. Using the metaphor of the planet Nraekthi, a creation of his own. Cipon takes the theme of the emergence, the collapse and the resurrection of a nation called Nraekthi. The Nraekthi people inhabit the planet Nraekthi which is located 208 light years from Earth. To be precise, in the solar system the Akhmanara star, or the star HIP 56948 in the naming system according to human astronomy. The planet Nraekthi, which is similar to Earth, gave rise to a species that is physically and mentally, as well as a civilization similar to humans. But Nraekthisana, which means 'Nraekthi civilization' in their language, is much older than human civilization on Earth. They have experienced a period of peak glory, then collapse on a planetary scale and the threat of extinction of the species due to their own actions, until finally they rose again as a single nation of sentient species that represents the planet Nraekthi in the era of enlightenment.
Visually, this works, which is like an altarpiece, is a symbol of reminder and a spiritual learning for the Nraekthi Nation not to repeat the same mistakes.
