Art Exhibition Coloring a Century of Muhammadiyah

6/20/2010 - Eka Wahyu
Commemorating ‘1 Abad Muktamar Muhammadiyah 2010 – A Century of Muhammadiyah Organization Congress’, a group of artists will held an Islamic visual art exhibition titled ‘Seni Rupa Islam – Islamic Visual Arts’. This exhibition will take place at two venues, the Student Center of Jogjakarta Muhammadiyah University (July 2 - 9) and at Posnya Seni Godod (July 1 - 16).
According to Godod Sutejo, one of the artists, the exhibition will display paintings and sculptures from about 30 wellknown artists from Jogjakarta and surroundings such as Syaiful Adnan, Edy Sunarso, Amry Yahya, Nasirun, Syahrizal Koto, Tulus Warsito, and Agus Kamal. By the exhibition, the artists would like to express their gratitude to Muhammadiyah for supporting them all the time and for Islamic culture for being inspiration of their life and works.
“Islam, especially Muhammadiyah as one of two biggest moslem organizations in Indonesia have a great contribution in developing visual arts in Indonesia. Calligraphy art, for example, have spread out for centuries in Indonesia and inspired so many artists in their works”, said Syaiful Adnan, the head of the committee for this exhibition. This event is a side event in occasion of the 46th Congress of Muhammadiyah in Jogjakarta from July 3 – 8, 2010.
For more information, please contact:
Posnya Seni Godod
Jl. Suryodiningratan, MJ II/ 641, Jogjakarta, phone 0274-370213
Contact Person: 
Godod Sutejo: 0811268589
Syaiful Adnan: 08132885037
Hamzah: 0818461849


Published in JogjaPages.com on June 20, 2010.

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