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Sin Sin Fine Art @ Art Basel in Hong Kong  |  23 May - 23 June 2013

Andy Dewantoro
(b. 1973, Tanjung Karang, South Sumatra, Indonesia)

Andy Dewantoro graduated from the Bandung Institute of Technology in 2000, focusing on architectural design. While his early work as a painter tended towards abstraction, during a residency in Europe Dewantoro was deeply impacted by the landscape paintings of 19th-century visionaries William Turner and John Constable, leading to a breakthrough in the development of his own, deeply auratic works. It dawned on him how the new urban landscape ends up defining a place more than the people who occupied it. Dewantoro creates shadowy, almost cinematic worlds where seemingly abandoned houses, churches, and bridges are viewed at a psychological as well as physical distance, shimmering in twilit atmospheres coloured by light-infused yet monochromatic palettes of black, purple, white and grey, like fading memories.

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