April 9 - May 26, 2017

In Entang Wiharso’s work the artist’s own personal experiences are embedded with a strong examination of the predominant socio-political conditions of his home country. To him, creating work is a way of understanding the human condition, of heightening our ability to perceive, feel and understand human problems like love, hate, fanaticism, religion, and ideology.
“I depict the condition of humans who are often divided by complex, multilayered political, ethnic, racial, and religious systems: they co-exist yet their communication is limited and indirect. Figures are interconnected by intuitive as well as intellectual linkages, including ornamental vegetation, tongues, tails, intestines, animal skin patterns, fences and detailed landscapes.“ (Entang Wiharso, 2011).
Entang Wiharso (b. 1967 Central Java, Indonesia) studied painting at the Fine Art Department of the Indonesian Institute of Arts, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. In 2013, he was one of five artists representing Indonesia in the 55th Venice Biennial. He was included in the Prague Biennale 6 in 2014. Important solo exhibitions include the Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia, Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore, and Kalamazoo Institute of Art, Kalamazoo, MI. He has been included in numerous group museum shows including the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, Musée d’art contemporain, Lyon, France, the Singapore Art Museum, Singapore and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, Rome, Italy. Entang Wiharso is represented by MARC STRAUS, New York; Arndt, Berlin and Singapore, Primo Marella, Milan; Bernier/Eliades Gallery, Athens and Brussels; Can’s Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia and Tang Contemporary, Beijing, China, Hong Kong and Bangkok, Thailand.
Selected Works

American Rhetoric: Kaleidoscope Hit by A Soccer Ball
2020
Aluminum, car paint, thread, resin, color pigment
65.3 x 128.3 x 10.8 in (166 x 326 x 27.5 cm)

Painting Hit by A Basketball
2020
Aluminum, Car Paint
38.5 x 77.1 x 12.2 in (98 x 196 x 31 cm)

My Garden Is A Refuge Against These Fears
2020
Car paint on aluminum
166 x 326 x 27.5 cm (285 x 410 x 12 cm)

Fake and Real - Live Together Forever
2017
Aluminium, Resin, Car Paint, Steel, Polyeutherene
44 x 11.8 in / 112 x 30 cm
Plinth 30.7 x 18 x 18 in

Home Sweet Home Traveler
2016
Aluminum, car paint, resin, color pigment, thread, polyurethane coating
67 x 86.6 inches
170 x 220 cm

Portrait In Front of Art History
2016
Aluminum, car paint, resin, color pigment, thread, polyurethane coating
66 x 44 inches / 168 x 112cm

Nowhere to Go
2016
Aluminum, car paint, resin, color pigment, thread, polyurethane coating
81.9 x 85.8 inches
208 x 218 cm

Woman Under DTE No. 1
2016
Acrylic and glitter on linen
78.75 x 55 in
200 x 140 cm

Under Cultural Burden
2015
Aluminum, car paint, resin, color pigment, thread, polyurethane coating
84.65 x 55.12 in / 215 x 140 cm

Double Protection
2015
Graphite, resin, color pigment, thread with steel structure
65.75 x 42.5 x 42 in / 167 x 108 x 107 cm

Art History Blue on Blue #3
2015
Cast paper, acrylic paint, STPI Handmade paper
42 x 28.25 x 1 inches
106.5 x 72 x 3 cm

Promising Land
2015
Brass, resin, color pigment, thread
45 x 56 inches /114 x 143 cm

Inheritance
2014
Graphite, resin, color pigment, thread, steel
life-size installation

Under Protection for 24-hours
2014
Aluminum, resin, color pigment, thread, acrylic mirror
75 x 48 inches / 190 x 122 cm

Double Protection: Invisible Threat
2014
Oil and acrylic on linen
78 3/4 x 118 inches / 200 x 300 cm

Tremor
2014
Oil color, graphite, resin, thread, color pigment
48 x 60 inches / 122 x 152 cm

After the Agreement - Borderless #2
2013
Brass, resin, color pigment, thread
43 x 51 1/2 in / 109 x 131 cm

Reclaim Paradise
2013
Acrylic, charcoal, oil on canvas
118 x 236 1/4 inches / 300 x 600 cm