The Eccentric, Friendly and Courteous artist is Bahar Malaka |Seniman Eksentrik, Ramah dan Santun itu Bahar Malaka

Dear steemian fellow..

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Kepergian saya dari ujung barat pulau sumatra ke Kota Cimahi untuk mengikuti acara 1st KSI National Meet up (Komunitas Steemian Indonesia) mempertemukan saya dengan seorang seniman eksentrik berambut gimbal yang bernama Bahar Malaka. Pada awalnya saya tidak familiar dengan beliau, hanya satu kali bacaan yang saya temukan tentang beliau di steemit, yaitu tulisannya @mariska.lubis ketika mengadakan meet up perdana KSI chapter Bandung beberapa bulan yang lalu, selebihnya mungkin saya juga kurang membaca dan tidak begitu penting untuk mengenal sosok Bahar Malaka itu sendiri, ibarat kata “tak kenal maka tak sayang”.

My departure from the western tip of Sumatra island to Kota Cimahi to attend the 1st KSI National Meet up (Indonesia Steemian Community) brought me to meet an eccentric artist named Bahar Malaka. At first I was not familiar with him, only one reading that I found about him in steemit. It was written by @mariska.lubis when she holding the first meet-up KSI chapter Bandung a few months ago, then I may also not read another and not so important to know the figure of Bahar Malaka, like a word “Do not know, then no love”.

Pada malam setibanya saya di Kota Cimahi saya sempat bertemu sapa langsung dengan Bahar Malaka, namun tiada perbincangan panjang diantara kami, beliau hanya sekedar menyapa, dan sangat sopan serta ramah sekali meskipun itu merupakan pertama sekali saya bertemu dengan beliau. Kedatangan Bahar Malaka pun membuyarkan canda tawa saya dan beberapa steemian lainnya dengan @mariska.lubis selaku penggagas dan pelaksana acara dikarenakan ada beberapa hal yang ingin dibicarakan oleh Kang Bahar sendiri dengan teteh @mariska.lubis untuk persiapannya sebagai pengisi acara diawal pembukaan 1st KSI National Meet up keesokan harinya di gedung DPRK Kota Cimahi.

On the night of my arrival in Cimahi City I had time to meet the direct greetings with Bahar Malaka, but no long conversations between us, he just greet, and very polite also friendly even though it was the first time I met him. The arrival of Bahar Malaka also broke my laughter and some other steemian with @mariska.lubis as the initiator and the organize of the event , because there are some things that want to talk about by Kang Bahar with @mariska.lubis for the preparation as a performer at the beginning of the opening 1st KSI National Meet up the next day at the DPRK (Regional Legislative Council) of Cimahi city

Malam itu sosok Bahar Malaka buyar dari pemikiran saya meskipun beliau sempat kembali ketempat kami ngobrol bersama steemian lainnya, tutur sapanya sopan dan ramah sekali, seperti mayoritas masyarakat Jawa barat lainnya yang dikenal santun dan ramah dalam bertutur sapa. Tiada pemikiran untuk bisa bertemu kembali dan bahkan bisa sempat berphoto bersama dengan seorang seniman yang sangat dihargai di Kota Cimahi sendiri.

That night, Bahar Malaka figure split from my thinking even though he had time to go back where we chatted with other steemian, he said gently polite and friendly, like the majority of other western Java community who is well-mannered and friendly in speaking. There was no thought of being able to meet again and even get a chance to take a picture with a highly respected artist in Cimahi City.

Bahar Malaka adalah seorang seniman pelukis surealis asal Kota cimahi yang sudah sangat terkenal karya nya di berbagai pameran lukisan Nusantara, sedikit menyimak profil Bahar Malaka yang lahir di Jawa tengah dari ibu berdarah Sunda dan ayah keturunan Suryalaya. Dari kedua orang tuanya Bahar Malaka tidak memiliki darah seorang seniman namun masa kecilnya yang sering dibawa oleh ibunda melihat berbagai ragam kesenian daerah seperti wayang golek oleh ibunya menjadikan Bahar Kecil mulai mencintai seni.

Bahar Malaka is a surrealist artist from Cimahi City who has been very famous for his work in various exhibitions of Indonesian paintings, a little listening to Bahar Malaka profile born in Central Java from the mother of Sunda and his father of Suryalaya descent. From his parents Bahar Malaka does not have the bloody an artist, but his childhood often brought by his mother to saw him various regional arts such as wayang golek made Bahar junior began to love art.

Bahar dewasa sempat menempuh pendidikan di salah satu sekolah pariwisata di Bandung hingga semester 5, Bahar yang tidak serta merta langsung menjadi seniman, berhenti kuliah lantaran pergolakan dalam batinnya apakah ingin melanjutkan sekolah atau meneruskan bakat seni yang ada dalam jati dirinya. Pada tahun 1996 akhirnya Bahar Malaka memutuskan untuk pergi ke Bali dengan tujuan mengantarkan para turis mancanegara untuk membeli berbagai karya lukisan pelukis ternama di Bali. Ibarat kata sambil menyelam minum air, secara tidak langsung Bahar malaka mengenal beberapa pelukis terkenal di Bali, dikarenakan relasinya kala itu mempromosikan berbagai hasil karya seniman pelukis disana. Bergaullah dengan orang sukses jika anda ingin sukses, dari merekalah Bahar Malaka belajar melukis, menemukan passionnya yang menjelma sebagai seniman pelukis surealis benar benar didapatkannya secara otodidak sehingga ia terkenal seperti saat ini.

Bahar was educated in one of the tourism schools in Bandung until the 5th semester, Bahar, who does not necessarily immediately become an artist, quit lesson in the college because of the upheaval in his mind whether to continue school or continue the artistic talent that exist in his identity. In 1996 finally Bahar Malaka decided to go to Bali with the aim of delivering foreign tourists to buy various works of painting famous painters in Bali. Like the word “while diving, drinking”, indirectly Bahar Malaka know some famous painters in Bali, Because the relation at that time promotes the various works of artists painters there. interact with successful people if you want to succeed, from them Bahar Malaka learns to paint, find his passion that is incarnated as a surrealist artist really get it self-taught so he is famous as it is today.

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Bahar Malaka pernah menetap di Madinah Saudi Arabia (1986) dan merubah gaya rambut eksentrik gimbalnya pada tahun 1996, bukannya bermaksud menyamakan gaya diri dengan Bob Marley yang dikenal sebagai penyanyi reagge mesikupun jika disingkat memiliki abjad yang saman BM (Bahar Malaka-Bob Marley), namun philosophy Bahar Malaka sendiri ingin mencermikan bahwa tidak selalu yang identik dengan dekil itu jorok, dan sebagai penyemangat kaula muda di Kota Cimahi khususnya, ia mengatakan bahwa Bob Marley penanyi berkulit legam itu berwatak cerdas dan kreatif walaupun berambut gimbal dan bergaya eksentrik.

Bahar Malaka had settled in Madinah, Saudi Arabia (1986) and changed his gimbal eccentric hairstyle in 1996, instead of trying to equate himself with Bob Marley known as a reagge singer even if abbreviated as having a BM (Bahar Malaka-Bob Marley) but Bahar Malaka philosophy wants to reflect that it is not always identical with that filthy dirty, and as an encouragement of young subjects in Cimahi City in particularly, he said that Bob Marley the jet-skinned singer is intelligent and creative despite being dreadlocks and eccentric-style.

Berbagai karya lukisan surealis Bahar Malaka sudah begitu dikenal di Indonesia dan bahkan juga dunia Internasional,tidak sedikit karya –karya Bahar Malaka menjadi lukisan kolektor Jepang,Arab Saudi dan bahkan negara-negara Eropa. Lukisan surealis sendiri adalah karya lukisan yang sulit dijangkau maknanya oleh orang lain,hanya pelukisnya saja yang memahami betul apa makna sebuah lukisan surealis itu sendiri, dan referensi ini benar adanya, terbukti sudah berulang kali saya melihat dan masih penasaran tentang makna lukisan Bahar Malaka yang dilelang pada perhelatan 1st KSI National Meet up kemarin di Kota Cimahi, saya sempat menerawang lukisan tersebut seperti gambaran alkitab yang turun dari langit kebumi secara berangsur angsur sehingga menjadikan manusia memiliki ilmu pengetahuan seperti zaman sekarang ini, namun kembali lagi lukisan surealis sangat sulit ditebak maknanya, hanya pelukisnyalah yang lebih memahami maksud pikiran jiwa kreatifitasnya sendiri.

Various works of Bahar Malaka surrealist paintings have been so well known in Indonesia and even the international world, not a few works Bahar Malaka painting collectors of Japan, Saudi Arabia and even European countries. Surrealist painting is a work of painting that is difficult to reach its meaning by others, only the painter who really understand what the meaning of a surrealist painting, and this reference is true, proved to have been repeatedly I see and still curious about the meaning of paintings Bahar Malaka auctioned at the event of 1st KSI National Meet up yesterday in Cimahi city. I had dreamed the painting is like a biblical picture that descends from the earth sky gradually so as to make humans have science like today, but again surrealist painting is very difficult to guess its meaning, only painters who better understand the purpose of the mind of his own creativity. I had imagined the painting is like a biblical picture that descends from the earth, sky gradually so as to make humans have science like today, but again surrealist painting is very difficult to guess its meaning, only painters who better understand the purpose of the mind of his own creativity.

Beberapa karya Bahar Malaka pernah mendapat perhatian publik,dikarenakan karyanya pernah diserahkan kepada Walikota,Presiden bahkan UNESCO PBB sebagai bentuk moral dan rasa kepedulian seniman terhadap berbagai persoalan yang di hadapi daerahnya, bangsa dan bahkan dunia. selain nalurinya yang eksentrik, lukisan Bahar Malaka juga memiliki eksentrivitasnya sendiri, mulai dari hampir setiap corak hitam putih dilukisannya yang merupakan selendang bermotif papan catur layaknya pakaian adat tradisional Bali, hingga media maupun lokasi mencari inspirasinya untuk melukis. corak hitam putih ini sendiri bermakna watak pemikiran manusia yang memiliki dua sisi yang berbeda, baik dan buruk, manusia harus mengakui kelebihan dan kekurangannya, harus jujur dikarenakan kejujuran akan melahirkan kedamaian bagi semua makhluk di muka bumi.

Some works of Bahar Malaka have received public attention, because his work has been handed over to the Mayor, President and UNESCO, UN as a moral form and a sense of concern for the artists of various problems faced by the region, the nation and even the world. In addition to his eccentric instincts, Bahar Malaka's painting also has its own excellence, ranging from almost every black-and-white painted pattern that is a chess-patterned shawl like traditional Balinese traditional clothing, to the media and location looking for inspiration to paint. the black and white pattern itself means the character of human thinking which has two different sides, good and bad, human beings must recognize their advantages and disadvantages, to be honest because honesty will bring peace to all beings on earth.

Sore itu saya sempat melihat sendiri betapa eksentriknya Bahar Malaka ketika ia akan ritual inspirasi kreativitasnya diatas kanvas, mulai datang bersama teman-teman klub motor legendaris masuk ke gerbang DPRD Kota Cimahi, diantar hingga ke panggung acara, hingga iringan music country menginspirasi kedua tangannya melumurkan cat air diatas kanvas, bahkan sempat menggunting bajunya sebgai media kuas meratakan cat air yang berlumuran di atas kanvas tersebut. Wow...saya tidak melewatkan moment ini sedikitpun hari itu hingga ia menyelasikannya dengan tuntas.

That afternoon I had time to see for myself how eccentric Bahar Malaka when he will creativity, inspiration rituals on canvas, began to come with legendary motorcycle club friends enter the gate of DPRD Cimahi, escorted to the stage of the event, to the accompaniment of country music inspired his hands smeared paint water on canvas, even cutting his shirt as medium brush flattened watercolors splattered on the canvas. Wow... I did not miss this moment of the day that until he thoroughly explored it

Karya lukisan surealis perdana miliknya yang saya lihat langsung dengan kedua mata saya serta para steemian Indonesia lainnya, meskipun hingga tulisan ini saya sebarkan saya belum mampu menerawang dengan pasti makna di balik lukisan surealis miliknya itu. Selain sempat menyaksikan langsung karyanya saya sempat memperkenalkan diri, dan memimtanya berphoto bersama sebagai kenang-kenangan. Beliau sangat sopan dan ramah sekali,pundak saya dipeluknya dengan erat seolah memberikan energi positif “jangan Kendor anak muda,teruslah berkarya”,beliau sempat membuang rokok kretek cengkeh miliknya yang sedang asyik dan nikmatnya asap dikepul hanya dikarenakan eksentrik yang ramah dan santun kepada semua orang disekitarnya.

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His first surrealist painting work that I see directly with my eyes and other Indonesian steemians, although until this writing, I propagate I have not been able to wander with the certainty behind his surrealist painting. In addition to watching his work directly I had introduced myself, and asked him to take some photos together as a moment of our meet. He was very polite and friendly, my shoulder hugged tightly as if given positive energy "do not get lazy young man, keep on working", he had thrown his clove cigarette that was engrossed and the pleasure of smoke decibel just because so that not exemplary Him

Sebagai seorang steemian, dan berasal dari Aceh saya sangat bangga berkesempatan dipertemukan dengan seorang Bahar Malaka yang menginspirasi kaula muda Kota Cimahi untuk berperilaku positif meskipun bergaya eksentrik, dan hal tersebut diikuti dengan bukti nyata anggota club motor legendaris kota Cimahi mengikuti perilaku Bahar Malaka, Eksentrik santun dan ramah. Terima kasih buat @mariska.lubis yang telah memberi kesempatan pertemuan ini dengan orang-orang yang menginspirasi di Kota Cimahi, semoga menjadi energi positif bagi diri saya pribadi dan steemian Indonesia lainnya.

As a steemian, and originally from Aceh I am very proud to have a chance to meet with a Bahar Malaka who inspires young Cimahi City to behave positively despite the eccentric style, and it is followed by the real proof of a member of the legendary Cimahi motor club following the Malar Bahar Malaka behavior, Eccentrically polite and friendly. Thank you for @mariska.lubis who have given this meeting opportunity with inspiring people in Cimahi City, may be a positive energy for myself and other steemian in Indonesia.

Reference Bahar Malaka Biography

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