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Jakarta Visionary Art

In terms of the sheer visual poetry of place, Jakarta can offer a feast for the eyes.  It’s one of the world’s largest cities, and there is an energy and vibrancy here that can’t be found anywhere else on earth.  This is why, when planning your trip to Jakarta, hotels are such an important part.  Your hotel will be the center for you, the place you return to at the end of the day, and it should be a place of great comfort and splendid style.  We’ve selected hotels based on their appeal to the senses, where the sense of design is exquisite, in an ongoing conversation with the city and the culture.  Also, the sense of smell and taste are extremely important here in this city, with its fascinating combination of cultures making delicious combinations in cuisine, and our chefs will delight you with their knowledge of world cooking traditions.  There is also an exquisite care taken to provide the best service in the industry, utilizing all the old fashioned charms to make for a very hospitable experience.

After sampling a fine meal and a splendid night’s sleep, you’ll be rejuvenated and ready to see what the city has to offer.  Jakarta is always on the move, and always changing.  There is a sense here that human creativity is always lurking and working to change the scenes around again, and it’s very exciting.  There are certainly plenty of attractions to appeal to travelers of all ages, but there is an especially strong visual arts community here.  One of its strongest artists working these days is Entang Wiharso.

Wiharso grew up in Tegal, a small village north of Java, and was exposed to many traditional Indonesian performance forms.  He studied at the Art Institute in Yogyakarta, and established his name as one of Indonesia’s most important artists at a show in Jakarta in 1996.  The work of Entang Wiharso crosses over into many disciplines.  He is primarily a painter, but some of the large scale works begin to look like sculpture when he start to play with the forms, taking them out of the canvas and dripping paints of various textures that add a haunting anthropomorphic quality.  He is also working more with video and installation work, so that the performative forces from the art he knew as a child begin to work their way in.  His artistic universe is one of animistic forms struggling with difficulty or gracefully between worlds that are magical and technological.  After spending some time with the work, which is much easier to do when you can see it in a gallery displayed the way he intended, these strange universes begin to resemble the ones we already inhabit.

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