SOLO PAINTING EXHIBITION

“ THE BRIGHT EPISODE ”

By Soham (Sabin Sainju)

From 27 July to 3 August, 2022, Cemara 6 Galeri-Museum will present a solo painting exhibition “ THE BRIGHT EPISODE “, series of paintings created by Soham (Sabin Sainju), a Nepalese contemporary artist based in Copenhagen, Denmark since 2011. Currently, Soham is in Jakarta, working for underprivileged children as an Associate Child Protection Officer in United Nations High Commissioner (UNHCR).

Soham is interested in art since his childhood. Since 2002 he has group and solo painting exhibitions, art installations and performance arts. He started to choose contemporary art back in 2000’s when he took art education and complete Intermediate in Fine Arts (I.F.A) Paintings, at Tribhuvan University Kathmandu, Nepal in 2003. As a freelance artist in 2003, he managed Everest Art Gallery in Kathmandu where later he started his art exhibitions to public.

Soham paintings reflects the variety of children’s activity that have always been biggest inspiration for his artworks. He has been interactive with and for children in several countries for over a decade now, with various ethnicities, religion, age, and socio-economic background and nationalities. His contemporary paintings expressive and inspiring, the communication between the artists, the reflections of the richness and diversity of children’s world with full of hopes, joy, harmony and tolerance. 

His figurative and abstract paintings are created with different medium and using many colour: purple, blue, brown, green, orange.  Soham consider his self as an expressionist experimental artist where he has worked with so many different mediums : charcoal, soft and oil pastel, water colour and acrylic colour in various materials such as paper, rice paper, canvas, wood, etc.

As an artist, his statement is “Appreciating the beauty of love, life and joyful living.”

 I proudly congratulate all the efforts of Soham for this exhibition.

I sincerely hope that the works will inspire and enhance the art and culture between Indonesia and Nepal.

Dr. Inda Citraninda Noerhadi SS., MA.,

Director

Cemara 6 Galeri-Museum