Title
Trilogy - World, Hell and Heaven
Creator
Year/Period
2003
Region
Indonesia
Object Type
Material
Technique
Dimension
Image size: 200 x 450 cm,
Frame size: 206 x 451 x 7.5 cm
Frame size: 206 x 451 x 7.5 cm
Accession No.
2014-00547
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of Kola Luu
The work is one of the finest exemplars of Wiharso’s painterly oeuvre which has been in gradual retreat as he focuses more on creating large installations fashioned from aluminium plates. Wiharso started out with the medium- to large-scale paintings on canvas. In furious yet precisely applied brushstrokes he developed scenes of disrupted physiognomies and figures, reminiscent of modern expressionism but incorporating elements of his native iconography such as ritual masks and postures. Since the beginning of the 2000s, however, he has turned to the genre of large-scale installation and monuments. Wiharso is also widely acknowledged as one of Indonesia’s most significant artists of his generation.
