Maryanto

This particular work shows the relationship between man and nature. Where man has a need for shelter. The artist wonders if there is a way man and nature can co-exist together in this beautifully evocative painting. 

This work comes as a series where the artists is researching the burgeoning exploitation of sand in the area. In this project he reflects on the growing tensions between traditional miners and corporations, where the latter is accelerating the extent of sand mining in Indonesia towards greater destruction. His evocative, black and white paintings, Miner Bivouac, bring to life the asymmetrical power relations that animate around this dangerous but financially lucrative industry. In Javanese mythology it is said: Merapi always gives everything as needed and always gives it, so take what is sufficient. Through these works, Maryanto draws on the transnational politics of volcanic sand mining and warns us of the receding boundaries of place-based knowledge, traditional livelihoods, and pastoral ways of life.