Adi Gunawan

The Ladder of Success, 2015
Bronze, 80 x 25 x 30 cm

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About the artwork

KU - In Adi Gunawan's symbolic sculptures, he intends to convey the constructed meaning of the ladder as success. The act of climbing the ladder draws inference to attaining success and with each step, the human is closer to its goal. Unlike most of the sculptures that depict nudes, the human in this sculpture is clothed and buttoned up.



About the artist

Adi was born in Yogyakarta in 1974, Indonesia and received his education at Institut Seni Indonesia, Yogyakarta. In his symbolic sculptures, Adi invokes euphoria and the significance of animals in his work due to his cultural background of growing up in an agrarian society. He uses his cultural positioning as a tool to visualize motions, gestures, characters and expressions of various subjects that he sculpts. He then conveys constructed meaning which, in and through his forms, figures and compositions, puts forth the issue of a mystical relationship between animals and humans. Adi’s highest accolade thus far was representing Indonesia at the Beijing Olympics 2008 Fine Arts Exhibition, where he was bestowed the further honor of an Olympic Torch Award. His sculpture toured Hong Kong, the United States, the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland and many other countries.

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