FENCE ART [ENTANG WIHARSO]

FLOATING ISLAND BY ETANG WIHARSO

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Entang Wiharso was born in Tegal, Central Java, August 19, 1967. He completed his art education at the Department of Painting, ISI Yogyakarta in 1994.

Entang's works include paintings, sculptures, installations and performance art. His work is an expanse of a world that is infinite, dissolved in one another, full of juxtaposition: the past and the present, fairy tales and daily life, history and myth, with figures moving between realism and surrealism. He absorbed Javanese culture and blended it with the latest world culture, transformed into a kind of three-dimensional work that had not completely abandoned its dual character. Meanwhile, in a number of performance arts he holds, Entang tries to expand fine arts into the theater area and provides us with entertaining parodies and social criticism.

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Entang has exhibited his work since his first year of study at ISI Yogyakarta (1987). Her solo exhibitions include Crush Me, Pearl Lam Galleries, Shanghai, China (2013); Untold Story, Arndt, Berlin, Germany (2012); Love Me or Die, National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta (2010); InToxic, Namely Art House, Semarang (2007); Amuk, CP ArtSpace, Washington D.C., United States (US, 2001), and Strange Journey, Fort Vrederburg, Yogyakarta (1997). While his joint exhibitions include The Encyclopedic Palace, Venice Biennale, Indonesian Pavilion, Venice, Italy (2013); Expanded Painting 3, Prague Biennale, Prague, Czech Republic (2009); Interpellation, CP Open Biennale, Jakarta (2007); Jogja Biennale, Yogyakarta (1996), and a joint exhibition at his campus ISI Yogyakarta (1987).

Fence art by Entang Wiharso

In addition to receiving a number of fine arts awards, including the Affandi Prize (1994) and the 2011 Visual Arts Awards from Visual Arts magazine, Entang has also been a residential artist several times and received scholarships to work, including at Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia (2013) ; Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York (2007) and Pacific Bridge Contemporary Southeast Asian Art, Oakland, USA (1999). 

Entang's works are in the collection, among others, The Guy and Myriam Ullens Foundation, Switzerland; Thomas Olbricht Collection, Berlin, Germany; Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA; Marino & Paola Golinelli, Bologna, Italy; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; OHD Museum of Modern & Contemporary Indonesian Art, Magelang; Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA; Rudi Akili Museum, Jakarta; Singapore Art Museum, and Videoinsight® Center, Turino, Italy. Now Entang Wiharso divides his time to live and work between Yogyakarta and Rhode Island, USA. (translate google/wikipedia)

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