French Festival Contemporary Picture Show

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French Festival Contemporary Picture Show


French Cultural Center (Center Culturel Francais-CCF) Jakarta organized festival of art and culture with contemporary images show in various forms and aspects of the National Gallery in Jakarta Indonesia.

Festival with the theme "Le Printemps Fancais 2009" opened the Director General of Value Arts, Culture and Film, Department of Culture and Tourism (Depbudpar), Tjetjep Suparman, Tuesday night.


The exhibition displays the works of French artists and of the present with life that is not separated from the video and the Internet. Artists are always the meaning of the image but in a way that is different from senior artists.

The young artists trying to get out of the frame, drawing with chalk on the floor, using fluorescent light to create the various forms that decorate a wall.

In addition, they also use spray paint to create graffiti in different places, hang a picture on the rope using clothes peg. Aspects of the media as a dynamic image in the still maintained, but the picture becomes more free.

According to him, the image shown artists and French artists of the present into the media appreciation for each other and understand the development of art and culture both countries.

This festival is also presenting a unique appearance that the paper combines the work of culinary art installation with Indonesia is very rich with a variety of cuisines and a variety of equipment and processing, he said.

French Ambassador to Indonesia Philippe Zeller present in the event, said the support and cooperation reflects the warmth of art and culture of both countries have the same interests in various fields particularly in the areas of arts and culture.

This initiative is a concrete evidence and are expected to continue policy exchange on the basis of the same relationship that strengthens both in the field of arts and culture.