DENPASAR (indo.com): Around 70 works by two young Balinese painters, Dewa Saputra and Nyoman Budiasa, are currently on display at the Lukisan Sidik Jari Museum (Museum of Finger Print Painting), in Denpasar. The exhibition started on July 16 will run through July 30, 2001.

Some of the works depict 'the current situation in Indonesia' and several others 'hallucination landscapes'.

The painters have different genres in creating their works of art. Both operate with the stylistic device of the landscape. Suputra focuses on the landscape as an empty open space in which he sets single signs, creating this space by the use of the horizon.

Budiarsa on the other hand, creates the landscape as an idyllic space, peaceful, without buildings and people - in contradiction to the actual appearance of contemporary Bali. These images are therefore considered hallucinatory.

Such unorthodox thinking from these painters, and particularly when considering the paintings' mechanism as a force and power, leads us to the possibility of a mental attack to which we are brought by the fact of hallucination.

Suputra and Budiarsa believe that the moment is at hand, when, by an unorthodox and active advance of the mind, it is possible to systemize confusion and thus to help to discredit the world of reality.