Semar in Saigon
Contemporary Indonesian art was on display in Vietnam, whose art world has not been so affected by modern trends.
July 16, 2013
A young French woman carefully studied Hunter Clowns, a painting by Indonesian artist Tatang Ramadhan Bouqie. The painting, full of bright colors, consisted of four panels, each as tall as an adult, each depicting a clown with a white-powdered face and red nose. The clowns were swinging butterfly nets, trying to catch the objects that flitted around them: fish, hearts with budding shoots, books and brains with wings. Around the clowns stood other
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