Semsar Siahaan ( Indonesia. Semsar Siahaan ; June 11, 1952, Medan - February 23, 2005, Tabanan ) - Indonesian artist, representative of the “New Painting” direction (Seni Rupa Baru) [1] , an active fighter against the Suharto dictatorship.
| Semsar Sijahan | |
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| Semsar siahaan | |
| Birth name | Semsar siahaan |
| Date of Birth | |
| Place of Birth | Medan ( Sumatra ) |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | Tabanan ( Bali ) |
| A country | |
| Genre | artist , schedule |
| Study | San Francisco Institute of Fine Arts (1975–1977), Bandung Institute of Technology (1977–1981) |
| Style | expressionism , performance |
Short biography
The first painting lessons he received in Belgrade in 1965-1968, where he was with his father - Indonesia's military attaché in Yugoslavia. In 1975-1977 he studied at the Institute of Fine Arts of San Francisco, in 1977 entered the Bandung Institute of Technology, but in 1981 was expelled from it for the anti-Sukhart "performance" "Digging up mass graves". In 1983-1984 he lived in the Netherlands as a political dissident.
Creativity
In 1988, the first solo exhibition was held in Jakarta . At the same time, he participated in the collective exhibition “The Art of Liberation”, preparing posters and banners for demonstrators.
Solo exhibitions were also held in Australia (1990, six cities), Singapore (1995), Tokyo (1997). To avoid being arrested for participating in anti-Sukhart demonstrations, he fled to Singapore in 1998, and emigrated to Canada in 1999, from where he returned to Indonesia six years later. One of his famous paintings “Black Orchid” is a self-portrait (reflecting the artist’s face in water filled with corpses - victims of a totalitarian regime) [2] .
Notes
- ↑ Miklouho-Maklai, Brita. Society's Wounds. Since 1966. Kuala Lumpur: Vin Zin Press Sdn. Bhd, 1991
- ↑ Siahaan, Semsar. - in: Pogadaev, V. Malay world (Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore). Linguistic and Cultural Dictionary. M .: Eastern Book, 2012, p. 599