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Born in Jakarta, January 29, 1956.

Studied with Dukut Hendratnoto (well known social realist painter of the seventies) for two years
Studied at SSRI Yogya (1974-1978) (didn’t finish)
He chose to study autodidact and live as a professional painter.
Work offers critics about the poor in big cities social circle.
came from a simple family that lived in the capital city, has a strong motive for expressing matters related to the survival of common people in big cities
Pioneer of Gerakan Seni Rupa Indonesia in the late 70’s.
received some awards: General Award for The Arts from The Society For American Indonesia Friendship Inc. (1978), The International Visitor’s Program from USIS, USA (1981), Anugerah Adam Malik (1986), and Affandi Award (1993).

Style
- Being Fascinated by photographic realism
- Developed his paintings through collection of photographs
- Found his idioms through observing these photos
- Goes beyond photography
The sceneries he creates in his canvases are impossible for photography to emulate. In playing with this imagination of the unreal-reality or engineered visual reality, he employs painstakingly realistic techniques in the details of his works.

Subject Matter
Urban Dilemmas- Struggle of working social groups and heir hardlives as a consequence of urbanization
Lost Condition of symple people in the labyrinth of urban society who are trapped by rapid and complicated chages
Developed an idiom in the form of perspective, creating the illusion of vast space including labyrinth, urban landscape, skyscraper, etc.
Horrible landscapes of a big city dominated by advertisement images, through painting them in several different perspectives
Ideas, dramatization and personal experience are important elements

next up: work analysis of dede’s works (hopefully others can contribute their own input!)