CAPULET BAR
Visual art exhibition by Hendra “Blankon” Priyadhani

Opening
Wednesday, 9 June 2010, at 7:30 pm.

Exhibition
9 June 2010 until 3 July 2010

Venue
Kedai Kebun Forum (KKF) Gallery
Jl. Tirtodipuran No. 3
Yogyakarta Indonesia 55143
Telp. / Fax : +62 (0)274 376 114
Email : kkforum@indosat.net.id

Open Hours
Everyday, at 11 am - 9 pm.
(except on Tuesday, KKF is break off)

CAPULET BAR

Capulet Bar is a place where Hendra “Blankon” Priyadhani will change into Baron Capulet Araruna. Baron Capulet Araruna is the nick name / alter ego of Blankon that used as his stage name when he on the concert with Sangkakala, an audio rock fashion show genre band. He founded it with 4 other “bandits” from the same campus but come from different district. The world of Baron Capulet Araruna is very different with Blankon’s. The images of Baron Capulet Araruna – especially when he is on stage – are rowdy, wild, tough, don juan, and all (district) rock star characters. Those images are striven emerged as maximum as possible in the form of fashion, make up, shoes, and all attributes for supporting his attitude.

Baron was taken from a name which popular in the night world, leather jacket in the style of motorcycle taxi drivers who ride RX king (motorcycle type from the brand Yamaha). Capulet was taken from the family name of purebred nobility of Juliet family (Romeo & Juliet by W. Shakespeare), and Araruna was taken from the last name one of the characters in TV serial Little Missy, named Baron Araruna. Baron Araruna in this Latin America film, which had popular in Indonesia in the 90’s, was described as a tyranny to his slaves.

Baron Capulet Araruna was not straight off made when created by Blankon, but he was the creation of all influences combination which Blankon received since he was a boy, by seeing his idols, such as their shoes, costumes, styles, and their vocal characters. All those influences were transferred and filtered into Baron Capulet Araruna.

In this project, Hendra “Blankon” Priyadhani and Baron Capulet Araruna work together to build Capulet Bar, for showing their attractions into visual art format. It is a space of collaboration for those two names.

Blankon was born in Ponorogo, East Java in 1981. He just finished his study at Graphic Art, Institute of Art Indonesia in Yogyakarta on February 2010.