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About the artwork
Influenced by artists who has depicted the fame of popular icons through their work, Stefan Buana copies this with his individualistic style that tries to portray each persona as a combination of their interior character and exterior appearances through texture. He creates layers and subverts common visual perceptions, simplifying form and space into flat lines or surfaces to focus on his subject's expressions what one can feel inside from observing them. He intelligently creates a communicative tool which evolves not only into visual elements but also includes memories and time.
About the artist
Stefan Buana is a rising star amongst Indonesia's emerging artists, marking his way with fascinating paintings and exquisite sculptures that challenge and amuse his collectors and critics. Stefan is known for his constant experimentation with various styles and media and his creation of unique art pieces using non-traditional materials such as torched metal and rough craquelure.
In recent years, Stefan's approach has shifted from abstraction with bold strokes, earthly colors and unusual figures to works that have a more conceptual content that represent his creative ideas and values. Tactile and pleasing to the eye, the paintings of Stefan Buana are deceptively benign. But don't be lulled by the pastel shades and fine lines as "Stefan is making strong social and political statements" says Michael Vatikiotis - former editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review, in his review for Stefan's solo exhibition at Galeri Nasional, Jakarta in 2008.