Dadi's Fairytale Wedding

Yogyakarta artist, Dadi Setiyadi, combines myths from the Indonesian archipelago with those from around the world in his latest works. emulating the masters is a true challenge.

March 14, 2012

The painting was strange. An old man is sucking on a bottle of milk. He is stretched out on the floor and both his hands are chained by golden handcuffs. Perhaps he is a prisoner in a cell. His eyes avoid the bottle of milk, and instead looks diagonally upwards to the left corner of the painting. A window with bars is part of the picture, through which the face of another man with a white beard and a spear looks in. Perhaps, he is the prison

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