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Lot Essay
"His work is a witty and imaginative medley of cartoon-like figures (both popular and avant-garde), often in the process of metamorphosis, threatening each other - with guns, teeth, claws, snakes and daggers. The viewer sees the familiar fuse with the fantastic, the ridiculous with the gruesome. Monstrous forms entwine to depict scenes where humour shrouds sadness as Heri Dono expresses the laughter and ugliness that is life everywhere." (Jasdeep Sandhu, Fortress of the Heart, Gajah Gallery, Singapore, 2001).
Heri Dono is one artist that is not averse to explaining the content of his work. He draws on mythical elements and folklore very often, as with the present work which he makes reference to Bima and Dewa Ruci. Heri Dono comments on this work "This work was affiliated with my installation work that was exhibited at the Yokohama Trienniale which shows a god of small build (Dewa Ruci) who posses superior spiritual and moralistic qualities and he is able to help the Bima and Werkudoro who are of gigantic build in comparison to Dewa Ruci."
Heri Dono is one artist that is not averse to explaining the content of his work. He draws on mythical elements and folklore very often, as with the present work which he makes reference to Bima and Dewa Ruci. Heri Dono comments on this work "This work was affiliated with my installation work that was exhibited at the Yokohama Trienniale which shows a god of small build (Dewa Ruci) who posses superior spiritual and moralistic qualities and he is able to help the Bima and Werkudoro who are of gigantic build in comparison to Dewa Ruci."