Made Gede Wiguna Valasara

Full Name: Made Gede Wiguna Valasara
Pen Name: Made Valasara
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Biography

In English

Born: 1983

Hometown: Gianyar, Bali

Based In: Gianyar, Bali

Made Gede Wiguna Valasara is an artist who deeply engages in painting and sculpture, his most known works are the ones with stuffed canvas technique. His subject matter varied from his reinterpretation on Bali Traditional Painting to appropriation on Renaissance and Modern Paintings.

He completed his studies at FSR ISI Yogyakarta (2007). He has participated in no less than 29 group exhibitions and three solo shows. His solo exhibitions include Animal Behaved, MonDecor Art Space, Jakarta, and Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, Bandung (2010); as well as Marshalling Lines and Colors, Galeri Canna, Jakarta (2009).

His works won a number of awards, including finalist at the UOB Painting of the Year (2012); finalist at the 2010 Indonesian Art Award; Best Painting at ISI Yogyakarta’s 23rd Dies Natalis (2007). In 2011, he was artist-in-residence at Selasar Sunaryo Artspace, Bandung.

In Balinese

In Indonesian

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https://theartling.com/en/artist/made-wiguna-valasara/

Examples of work

Part of the Universe

Valasara’s work, ‘Part of the Universe’ finalised late in 2020, is much larger at 120 by 260 cm. His technical process is demanding. Initially, he sketches onto the canvas the structure. By pinching, filling, and making a volume in the canvas, the individual forms take shape, hand-stitched in cotton. Random threads then complete and inform the chaotic abstract elements, adding a unique potency to his works. The complex works require up to two months of painstaking focus to complete. ‘Part of the Universe’ is a flowing picture that draws the viewers eye naturally from left to right across the canvas. The top half of the composition is punctuated by three jagged forms, prominent structural features of a cremation ceremony, that pierce into vast empty space. This work is vastly different than ‘Universe’ 2021. It is defined by its large, negative space of empty canvas emphasising dynamic flowing form and movement within the composition, a technical attribute he has adopted from western art.

https://www.nowbali.co.id/made-valasaras-artistic-exploration-of-material/