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Hansen works are notable in their innovate employment of multiple media, for instance, his use of both acrylic and oil on the same canvas. He also utilizes collage. Despite his mainly abstract work, he maintains figurative elements, and is not afraid to mix approaches and styles, sometimes combining abstract components, figuration, and even text in a work. In fact, Hansen has been breaking boundaries throughout his entire career. Advocating abstraction in Indonesia at a time when it was not popular. Hansen’s commitment to Abstraction is a testament the fact that Abstraction exists not only in the West; Indonesia also has its own form of Abstraction. Hansen’s last exhibition at Cemara 6 gallery in 2007, truly fulfilled all his theories of Abstraction, and has let to a new direction within his work toward contemporary concepts and issues, which can be seen in recent works Child Abuse and Global Warming...
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SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS
Indonesian artist. Hansen Thiam Sun, known by most merely as "Hansen," is a deft and unique artist on the international contemporary painting scene, both for his adroit handling of multiple media and for his Innovative approach to figuration. His background and how he arrived at his vocation of art making, is also very fascinating. Born In Toho, Borneo, Hansen was always inspired by the beauty and..[more]
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