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Gallery 98 Fine Art · Kuala Lumpur

Edi Alwardanipaints koi the way water moves.

Original oil paintings, built up with the palette knife. Born in Temanggung, Central Java in 1976, painting in Kuala Lumpur since 1999. Now showing at Damansara City Mall.

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Koi in Motion, oil on canvas by Edi A. Koi in Motion · Oil on canvas

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Edi A. adding detail to a large koi canvas

The artist

A koi painting sold at twelve. A life in paint since.

Edi started painting at five, mixing his own colours from banana leaf, teak and turmeric, and painting on bedsheets when there was no canvas. At twelve a gallery on Jalan Malioboro in Yogyakarta bought his work, and his finger-painted koi won its competition.

He went on to open galleries in Jakarta, then moved to Kuala Lumpur in 1999. Koi have stayed at the centre of his work ever since.

“I paint whatever that is in my heart.”Edi A., on The Artling
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Four bodies of work

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Koi in Motion, oil on canvas by Edi A. Koi10 works The subject Edi has painted since childhood. Thick palette-knife scales, water built up in layers. Large Abstract, oil on canvas by Edi A. Abstract6 works Large gestural canvases where colour moves the way koi do: fast, layered, loud. Menuai Padi (Harvesting Rice), oil on canvas, palette knife by Edi A. Landscape5 works Rice fields, rivers and lily ponds. Indonesian and Malaysian countryside, painted from the road. Super Red, oil on canvas by Edi A. Life10 works Roosters, horses, roses, arowana and figures. Movement caught mid-turn.
Gallery 98 Fine Art shopfront at Damansara City Mall, Kuala Lumpur

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See the paintings in person at Damansara City Mall

The canvases are big and the paint is thick. They read differently in the room than on a phone. Gallery 98 shows Edi's koi, landscapes and abstracts on the ground floor.

Lot G-02, Damansara City Mall
No 6, Jalan Damanlela
Bukit Damansara, 50490
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

[Opening hours: to confirm with Edi]

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