THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF AUSTRALIA’S COLLECTION OF TARING PADI POSTERS – TAASA Review March 2021
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This article was originally found in the March 2021 edition of TAASA Review (Volume 30, Issue 1, Page 14).
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Jamie Scott Alexander O ne of the first projects I was assigned during my internship at the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) last year was researching a collection of 15 woodcut posters by the Indonesian activist-artist collective Taring Padi.
The posters date from and are directly engaged with the late 1990s and early 2000s, a critical moment in Indonesia’s modern history. Devide et impera orba [Divide and conquer the globe] c.
2001-2, Taring Padi, woodcut, printed in black ink, from one block...