Rinaldo is an artist living and working in Bali, Indonesia. With multidisciplinary backgrounds in graphic design, illustration, and printmaking. His ongoing body of work explores 'amok,' an English loanword from Malay/Indonesian, meaning to rampage or to run berserk. Utilising print as the main medium and mythology-inspired visuals, this project explores amok as the ambivalent force of destruction and creation. Rinaldo currently works as an Associate Printmaker at Black Hand Gang Printmaking Studio and as a Project Manager at Sekala 369 Tattoo Studio.
Website / Link to Portfolio: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OdB23zB02iACBg3YbBt-n9joLIS07DbO/view?usp=sharing
Publication/Work:
I am planning to showcase my ongoing Amok Project, a body of work that explores anger as an ambivalent force of destruction and creation. Visually, this utilises volcano imagery accompanied by mythology-inspired illustrations.
As a mythmaking art project, this will feature several printed formats, including but not limited to zines, risograph prints, and traditional prints such as etchings and screen prints. The idea is to present the project as age-old visual poetry books and series of prints, emulating Hans Holbein's Dance of Death and Hokusai's One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji. Prices will tentatively range from RM 50 - RM 650 (for limited and numbered traditional prints).
One of the zines is Orogeny. Inspired by the major arcana of tarot cards and esoteric scriptures, this art zine imagines a universe where all of its creation mythology and metaphysical laws are driven by anger/amok. In this universe, the power of amok manifests itself in the form of volcanoes, a natural phenomena that bring both destruction and life. As briefly referred to above, this art zine emulates esoteric books and liturgical texts. inviting its reader to rethink their perception of anger.
The other example is the Amok Gods print series. Emulating pages of illuminated texts, this series introduces the deities of the world, who in turn are the imagined different aspects of amok, such as anger as a gift, anger as a mirror, anger as a maternal force, and so on. Utilising photopolymer intaglio print as the medium, the handmade quality gives the prints an aged and esoteric look. This series will also be accompanied by a zine cataloguing the gods/characters.
Please see the attached images for reference.
Additionally, there will be supplementary merchandise in the form of sticker packs and tote bags, still displaying volcano visuals. Prices will tentatively range from RM 10 to RM 90.
Rinaldo Hartanto
Rinaldo is an artist living and working in Bali, Indonesia. With multidisciplinary backgrounds in graphic design, illustration, and printmaking. His ongoing body of work explores 'amok,' an English loanword from Malay/Indonesian, meaning to rampage or to run berserk. Utilising print as the main medium and mythology-inspired visuals, this project explores amok as the ambivalent force of destruction and creation. Rinaldo currently works as an Associate Printmaker at Black Hand Gang Printmaking Studio and as a Project Manager at Sekala 369 Tattoo Studio.
I am planning to showcase my ongoing Amok Project, a body of work that explores anger as an ambivalent force of destruction and creation. Visually, this utilises volcano imagery accompanied by mythology-inspired illustrations.
As a mythmaking art project, this will feature several printed formats, including but not limited to zines, risograph prints, and traditional prints such as etchings and screen prints. The idea is to present the project as age-old visual poetry books and series of prints, emulating Hans Holbein's Dance of Death and Hokusai's One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji. Prices will tentatively range from RM 50 - RM 650 (for limited and numbered traditional prints).
One of the zines is Orogeny. Inspired by the major arcana of tarot cards and esoteric scriptures, this art zine imagines a universe where all of its creation mythology and metaphysical laws are driven by anger/amok. In this universe, the power of amok manifests itself in the form of volcanoes, a natural phenomena that bring both destruction and life. As briefly referred to above, this art zine emulates esoteric books and liturgical texts. inviting its reader to rethink their perception of anger.
The other example is the Amok Gods print series. Emulating pages of illuminated texts, this series introduces the deities of the world, who in turn are the imagined different aspects of amok, such as anger as a gift, anger as a mirror, anger as a maternal force, and so on. Utilising photopolymer intaglio print as the medium, the handmade quality gives the prints an aged and esoteric look. This series will also be accompanied by a zine cataloguing the gods/characters.
Please see the attached images for reference.
Additionally, there will be supplementary merchandise in the form of sticker packs and tote bags, still displaying volcano visuals. Prices will tentatively range from RM 10 to RM 90.