Three students of Fine Arts Study Program Faculty of Cultural Studies (FCS) Universitas Brawijaya (UB) held a final project exhibition on 13th & 16th of July 2018. The exhibition lasted for two days at building A room 1.2 FCS UB. The exhibition, which was open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., featured artworks by three students, they are Yusuf Afandi entitled “Topeng Panji and Dewi Sekartaji as the Idea of Creation of String Art”, Limentius Lucky Setiawan themed “Anthropomorphic Fox in Human Era”, and Sifa Qolby themed “Friendship Relations between Women in College as the Idea of Creating Textile Works”.
Sifa Qolby, a student of Fine Arts Study Program 2013, said that she favored embroidery artist named Sarah K. Benning so that in her work she used embroidery technique with the theme of friendship between women at campus. Through this theme, Sifa explained that every student, especially the wanderer, needed someone else, so that there would be friendship between individuals, which was the reason to make this embroidery. In the making process, Sifa said that the obstacle was the long process, which was seven months.
Unlike Sifa who made her work manually with embroidery techniques, Limenius Lucky Setiawan, a student of Fine Arts Study Program 2012 who also held a final project exhibition with Sifa, made his work with digital technology to create character. The artist who favored Japanese digital artist Takashi Muratami said that his work took less than 1-2 weeks. Lucky also explained that his work took the theme of human anthropogenic with nature because of the current human relationships with the environment was less good. The particular character of the fox was a symbol of human nature today where the cunning nature of foxes in taking prey was the same as the cunning nature of human.
Yusuf Afandi, a student of Fine Arts Study Program 2011, used a unique technique in making his work that was string art technique. The technique was used in his work on Topeng Panji and Dewi Sekartaji where artists rarely used string art techniques for mask works. The purpose of his work was to draw people’s attention to works with string art techniques that were new and rarely used. Afandi said that the length of time of his work was about one day a night, but it really required high accuracy because a little mistake would cause the repetition of the making of the work. (MH/DT/MSH/PSIK FIB)