Latest Works of Heri Dono

Artist Heri Dono displaying works that are respons on various issues. Works ranging from paintings, installations and performance art is exhibited at the Jogja Gallery, Yogyakarta, July 15 starting August 2.

Visitors who witnessed the opening of this exhibition on Wednesday (15 / 7) night to be greeted with a scene in Jogjakarta Dancing Traktor Alun-alun Utara Yogyakarta is located right in front of the Jogja Gallery.


Art performance that involve a number of large equipment such as tractors, truck-trailer to trailer trash. Through this work, he discuss the impact of the use of technology that helps destroy life at once.

Such a critical attitude also appears in the papers the other Heri Dono. Curator Mikke Susanto share works in the four arena, namely in the arena of life itself, as artists, the site arkeolog new, political issues, and notes about nature.

According to Mikke, the issue is a political theme that long since been Heri Dono. He created works such as installation, entitled "The Head Gamelan." In this work, it displays a number of gamelan instruments that can automatically remove a certain rhythm. This paper is a metaphor for democracy in Indonesia is marked with the equation of the song and the song agree.

In this exhibition, Heri Dono also back the legendary painting "The Sumission of Diponegoro" Nicholaas Pieneman paper. Tens of years ago, painter Raden Saleh has made a version of the paper with the title "Prince Diponegoro arrest."

With two draws on the paper, the Heri Dono create paintings entitled "The One catch" (2007), and then "The Error of Pieneman's Perspective" is displayed in a new exhibition this. In two works, he shows the figures present era politicians, ranging from Soeharto, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, to Gus Dur Antasari Azhar.

Learning art in Yogyakarta, Heri Dono his last exhibit in 2001 in Yogyakarta ago. He then more to follow various international exhibitions. Artlink magazine record in Australia as one of the artist's most frequently invited to international biennal. He even referred to as one of 100 avant-garde artist of the world at this time.