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+ | |Biography text=Anak Agung Gde Rai or usually called as Agung Rai, born in Peliatan, Ubud, on July 17th, 1955. He is a humanist (cultural practitioner) and an artist who has big role in preserving and promoting arts of Indonesia, particularly Bali. He is the founder of ARMA (Agung Rai Museum of Art). The poverty during his childhood motivated him to change their family life to make it better by continuously work hard. When he was young, he has ever become “merchant” of artistic goods for tourists in Bali. | ||
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+ | Agung Rai has a dream to become a teacher, but he has to burry it since cant afford the tuition. Then, he learned to paint. But, he realized his skill is yet sufficient as painter. Otherwise, he took a course of English and became a tour guid. From his interaction with the tourists, he got sense of business to try as seller of artistics goods made by his neighbors in his hometown. Since then, he is becoming a merchant in arround Sanur, Kuta until Padangbai. As a merchant, his sense of business and arts was developed. Then he mad friend with many arts collectors. He followed his friend to be a collector of maestro’s artwork. From a collector, he became a currator for artwork exhibition. Such as, in 1989, Agung Rai went to Japan and took a hundred of artworks from fifty painters that joined a group of Sanggar Seniman Agung Rai (Agung Rai Artists Group). This paintings then was shown in Japan for two months. | ||
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+ | Anxiety and worry for his country’s cultural preservation mainly in field of arts make him obssessed to establish a museum and arts galery. Then, with wonderful effort of him, in June 9th 1996, ARMA Museum officially opened by Prof. Dr. Ing. Wardiman Djojonegoro while at that time have position as Minister of Education and Culture. ARMA is one of museums with most complete collection in Indonesia. From classical artwork until contemporary, even artwork of local artist and other countries. Moreover, ARMA periodically held an exhibition of artworks. | ||
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+ | The popularity of ARMA is masively increasing since it often held various cultural event such as music performance, theatre, providing bookroom with various collection for visitors, held seminar of culture and art. Events in ARMA mostly in international scale and often were hold by various artworkers and culture from many countries. With various arrangement of these kind of event, ARMA achieved predicate as most popular museum and the best museum in Indonesia based on tourist as how it was compiled by world travelling site, TripAdvisor. | ||
+ | For his effort to preserve arts, Agung Rai was awarded many awards. Such as, in 2002 he was awarded by Indonesia Government as “The pioneer in advancing the fine arts”. In 2012 he was chosen as Chief of Himusba (Himpunan Museum Bali) 2012-2017. In 2016 “TripAdvisor” awarded ARMA as the best museum in Indonesia. The choice was determined by the tourists who has visited the various museums in Indonesia. | ||
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+ | The Books of Agung Rai and ARMA can be read in “Gung Rai, Kisah Sebuah Museum // Gung Rai, A Story of Museum” (KPG, 2013), “Saraswati in Bali: A Temple, A Museum and A Mas” (BAB Publishing Indoneisa, 2015”, “Agung Rai, Sang Mumpuni // Agung Rai, The Maestro” (Lestari Kiranatama, 2017). | ||
|Biography text id=Anak Agung Gde Rai atau biasa dipanggil Agung Rai, lahir di Peliatan, Ubud, 17 Juli 1955. Dia adalah budayawan dan tokoh seni yang berjasa besar melestarikan dan mempromosikan karya-karya seni Indonesia (khususnya Bali). Dia adalah pendiri ARMA (Agung Rai Museum of Art). Kemiskinan di masa kanak memotivasi Agung Rai untuk mengubah kehidupan keluarganya menjadi lebih baik dengan terus menerus bekerja keras. Ketika masih muda, dia pernah menjadi “pedagang acung” (pedagang asongan) benda-benda seni untuk turis yang berkunjung ke Bali. | |Biography text id=Anak Agung Gde Rai atau biasa dipanggil Agung Rai, lahir di Peliatan, Ubud, 17 Juli 1955. Dia adalah budayawan dan tokoh seni yang berjasa besar melestarikan dan mempromosikan karya-karya seni Indonesia (khususnya Bali). Dia adalah pendiri ARMA (Agung Rai Museum of Art). Kemiskinan di masa kanak memotivasi Agung Rai untuk mengubah kehidupan keluarganya menjadi lebih baik dengan terus menerus bekerja keras. Ketika masih muda, dia pernah menjadi “pedagang acung” (pedagang asongan) benda-benda seni untuk turis yang berkunjung ke Bali. | ||
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