Adi Gunawan

Sahabat ( Best Friend ), 2016
Bronze, 40 x 25 cm

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About the artwork

Adi Gunawan's sculptures are inviting and endearing, bringing to us the affection and warmth that can exist between man and animal. Here, a man carries a plump boar to his chest, smiling serenely for having a companion close to him. The boar equally enjoys the man's love and attention, sharing similar and relaxed smiles as it reclines into the man's warm embrace. Peace and love can exist between man and animal, and Adi Gunawan's sculptures portray such emotions intricately, in every motion and emotion that his characters displays.



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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