Cambodian artist brings works to RI (Indonesia)

Paiting by Chhim Sothy (Photo: Saklapel.org) Claudia Seise, Contributor, Yogyakarta The Jakarta Post (Indonesia) One of Cambodia's few well-known artists, Chhim Sothy, will showcase his work in Yogyakarta for a month. Sothy, whose works have been collected by several embassies and ministries in Cambodia and selected to be shown in the Beijing Biennale 2008 in China, will display his work at the Tembi House of Culture in Yogyakarta. Cambodia, compared to Indonesia, cannot show off a young and exciting art scene. Exhibition openings are rare. And modern or contemporary Cambodian art is rare. Few artists survive. With the help of NGOs and other foreign institutions, young Cambodian artists have started to experiment with traditional painting styles, usually depicting Angkor Wat, the Cambodian landscape of rice fields and palm... [read full story]