IN MEMORIAM: BRUNO PIAZZA, ICON INSPIRATION AND FOUNDER
Monday, 14 November 2011 00:00
ICON's inspiration and co-founder passed away on the 28th of October 2011 after a long and courageous battle with cancer. During the two years since Bruno's illness was diagnosed, he had very little time to devote to ICON Asian Arts, and the gallery as well as our websites experienced a period of relative silence. Bruno hoped that everything he created and the collections he gathered during his life would continue to live on after he was gone. They will. Be ready for a rejuvenated and refreshed ICON Asian Arts to appear as 2012 unfolds.To read more about the life and death of Bruno Piazza click here.
JUST ARRIVED: "LIFE DEATH & MAGIC" BY ROBYN MAXWELL
Sunday, 31 October 2010 00:00
ICON is the first in Indonesia to offer this landmark volume on the ancestral arts of Indonesia, Life, Death & Magic, by Robyn Maxwell (left, with tau tau memorial effigy from Toraja). The book was prepared for an exhibition of the same name which opened in August 2010 at the National Gallery of Australia. As she did with Indonesian textiles, here Maxwell puts the artefacts of the archipelago in context, discussing them in relation to several salient themes which unify and distinguish the region's ancestral arts.Rp 660,000 with complementary durable cordura ICON Asian Arts tote bag.
ICON OFFERS MEMORIES OF THE SACRED
Saturday, 16 October 2010 00:00
Now available: Rio Helmi's new book, Memories of the Sacred. This masterwork distills three decades of Helmi's experiences and insights into the ritual life of the Bali. It is a labour of love by a seasoned photographer at the peak of his creative powers. With text by Diana Darling, respected author and long-time resident of Bali, who has a profound understanding of the vanishing world which Helmi has eloquently documented with his images. The book is also an invaluable document of traditional objects, textiles, ornament and ritual apparatus depicted in context, which will be of interest to all scholars and connoisseurs of the arts of Bali.
Published by Afterhours Books. 136 pages, 30 x 42cm. Rp 660,000 at ICON (with a complementary rugged cordura tote bag).
WELCOME TO ICON ONLINE
Tuesday, 05 October 2010 14:37
Our website is at last live and available to our friends and colleagues, wherever you may be in the world. We hope you enjoy the site and return to it often. We intend to post weekly news items, and add new accquisitions and additional pieces from our inventory on a regular basis.Please click the "contact" button and share your thoughts, comments, ideas and other input. We invite you to engage in a dialog. Don't be a passive passerby, please do get in touch. We are always happy to share information and insights about Southeast Asian arts and antiquities in general, and about the pieces in our inventory in particular.