E-Catalogue Final Thesis Bagas Rachelma A

SOCIAL INEQUALITY 

AS AN IDEA FOR PAINTING ART CREATION

By : Bagas Rachelma Armando

Bagas Rachelma records social inequality in his life as mainly related to direct and indirect experiences that occur in society, such as people struggling to earn money to meet their difficult economic needs. The situation raises many questions for Bagas, such as why there are rich and poor people. Why can people born into well-off families have wider opportunities to have careers and better lives than those born in the middle of poor (family) situations? How can Western societies live better than people in the East regarding education and economic issues? Even though there are far more natural resources than in the West.

Bagas Rachelma’s Final Project Exhibition raises the topic of social inequality in the form of painting. The gap is a phenomenon that occurs due to the distance or difference between the rich and the poor. The phenomena that never end but increase with new problems that are unique to irony make Bagas move to visualize forms, figures, and expressions obtained from Bagas’s more intimate and extensive search about inequality.

Bagas concerns over social inequality seem to have found a more artistic path. In displaying various settings of social inequality, Bagas utilizes a surrealist style with a sense of pop culture inserted between them. His depictions do not expose “raw” life portraits but have been creatively processed, combined, and exchanged, two or more forms of reality that melt into a ‘new’ form.