SHOWCASE

/ ARTIST / 2025

BKKIF Artist  
ARTIST: Rinaldo Hartanto
COUNTRY: Indonesia
EMAIL: valgranaire@gmail.com
CONTACT: instagram.com/rinaldo.hartanto
Rinaldo is an artist living and working in Bali. With multidisciplinary backgrounds in graphic design, illustration, and printmaking, Rinaldo explores Jungian archetypes, esotericism, mythology, and folklore from Indonesia and all over the world.

His ongoing body of work explores amok, an English loanword from Malay/Indonesia meaning to rampage or to run berserk. Like volcanoes and Indonesian ring of fire, amok has an ambivalent force not only in fueling mass riots but also in driving grassroots movements and societal changes.

Progenies of Wrath

Cyanotype and photopolymer intaglio on archival cotton paper
Image Size: 36cm x 24cm
Paper Size: 53cm x 39cm

Inspired by the tale of Garuda and Naga, this piece explores how amok or collective anger can be passed through generations, creating generational enmities.

The Auspicious Arrival

Risograph on acid free paper
Paper Size: 29cm x 38cm

A common theme in Eastern mythologies and folklores is how a just cause or leader will be heralded by auspicious signs. This piece explores how amok or collective anger can be harnessed for collective betterment, which is signified by the heralds of auspice; qilin/kirin and kinari/kinnaree.

Cosmogony

Digital drawing

Cosmogony reimagines how a universe could be born from cosmic, collective anger/amok. Furthermore, this worldbuilding imagines how anger is the energy/matter that runs the metaphysical laws of universe.

Dasamuka Triwikrama

Digital drawing

In Ramayana and Mahabharata, it is said that some characters in the state of extreme anger could transform into gigantic giants that deliver destruction. This process is known as Triwikrama, which means Three Steps; referring to the extreme size of the giants that could traverse the entire world within three steps.

The Allegory of Juvenescence and Amok

Tea-toned cyanotype on watercolour paper
Size: 43cm x 31cm x 12 pieces

This piece is a meditation how children in conflict areas are brought up with anger and destruction. Some are moulded into child soldiers, while some might not survive. The lucky ones, may still carry anger and trauma into adulthood.

Garuda Angkara

Photopolymer intaglio on acid-free paper
Image Size: 16 cm x 24 cm
Paper Size: 28 cm x 38 cm

The manifestation of female rage.

Lima Angkara

Photopolymer intaglio on acid-free paper
Image Size: 16 cm x 24 cm
Paper Size: 28 cm x 38 cm

In Javanese and Balinese folklore, it is believed that from the moment of birth to death, every person is accompanied with 4 invisible siblings who represent 4 colours, 4 elements, 4 directions, and 4 temperaments. These siblings guide the individual's personalities and quirks. This piece reimagines what if all four siblings and the individual are overtaken with anger. What kind of life will they lead?

Bala Dhemit - After Haryadi Suadi

Digital drawing

The manifestation of collective anger/amok in different forms, inspired by Indonesian folkloric ghosts.

The Attachment - After Jan Toorop

Digital drawing

This piece meditates how some anger/amok could linger and attach to a person, like a haunting spectre.

The Starwatcher - After Leon Bakst

Digital drawing

In universe of Amok, the Starwatcher calmly observes all sorts of anger, slowly weaving a story.