Heri dono sculpture
Heri Dono
ABOUT THE ARTIST
One of Indonesia’s most well known contemporary artists, Heri Dono has achieved iconic status both internationally and in his native Indonesia. He represented Indonesia in the Venice Biennale in , where he showed a large-scale kinetic sculptural installation in the Indonesia Pavilion, which was located in the Arsenale.
Born in Jakarta in , and a graduate of the Indonesian Institute of the Arts in Yogyakarta, Dono early on developed a distinctive style that came out of his extensive experimentation with the most popular form of Javanese folk theatre, wayang, a vibrant and eclectic art form that enacts complex narratives, often derived from ancient mythology, incorporating music with performances by two-dimensional shadow puppets as well as more lifelike wooden puppets and even human actors. Dono’s elaborate sculptural installations take inspiration from these puppets, bringing them into the contemporary world of machines, robots, and television. Often fe Heri dono paintings!