
Angkasapura
1979 - Indonesia
Contemporaries
At the age of twenty-two, Noviadi Angkasapura received a message from a spirit instructing him to draw a phrase containing the words "patience" and "peace."
This event triggered an existential crisis that led him to see the world primarily from a moral and spiritual perspective.
Like mediumistic "artists" such as Augustin Lesage, Ferdinand Desmoulin, or Josef Kotzian, his work is a message delivered by a spirit to humanity.
Angkasapura does not consider himself an artist at all, but rather a spiritual guide whose drawings are encrypted messages.
Deeply influenced by Indonesian and Asian culture and iconography, such as Javanese puppetry and the Ramayana, his work evokes mythological animals and anthropomorphic creatures. Enigmatic texts dictated by the spirit with which he is connected sometimes fill all the empty spaces. He works with ballpoint pen, graphite and colored pencil on recycled paper or cardboard.

