Hendra Gunawan

The painting is in good condition, as is the canvas. Examination under ultraviolet light reveals that general retouching has taken place, but these are not apparent to the naked eye. Retouchings are apparent only under UV light. Paint layers are well-preserved.
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"All my work reflect my life in its entirety, which cannot be pried away from my existence as an artist. What I mean by entirety here is all of my existential experiences as an individual, along with various sociocultural aspects that lived and developed around me. All of that were crystallized in the beauty of my paintings. A beauty that is agrarian... Why agrarian? Because at heart I am a little village boy who lived and grew up in nature. A vast expanse. Paddy fields that reached far and wide towards rolling green hills. The mood, atmosphere, and colours in my painting were created based on my understanding of all of that."

HENDRA GUNAWAN, CITED IN AN INTERVIEW WITH DRA. INNE DJAPARI (TRANSLATED)