Purwanto

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About the artwork

Immerse yourself in the city of lights, but take a closer look and be ready to gaze at floating golden heads across the skyline. Purwanto has a knack for beautifying the problem through pleasant aesthetic, however this does not discount thee\ eerie motifs throughout the composition. Perhaps it is a commentary towards political scene in Indonesia.

About the artist

Purwanto was born in Jember, East Java in 1977. He was interested in Visual Art since Junior High School and started to teach himself art after graduating. He began to paint during his school days at SMAN I Ambulu ( National Senior High School I) and won some Visual Art competitions which were held by Kiss FM, a radio station in Jember. After graduating from Senior High School, he joined his art teacher to establish ” Panji Laras," an art workshop, and eventually pursued arts at ISI Yogyakarta. In 2012, he saw Thomas Ott’s scratchboard comics and started to explore the scratching technique on canvas. The sheer amount of random composition of thousands scratching lines seems to suggest that people be more patient and careful in reading and rereading the various nuances of social cultures that exist in humanity.