{"id":13240,"date":"2018-07-28T16:23:32","date_gmt":"2018-07-28T08:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=13240"},"modified":"2021-10-19T13:01:44","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T05:01:44","slug":"missing-dadang-christanto6-september-4-november-2018-press-release","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/portfolio-item\/missing-dadang-christanto6-september-4-november-2018-press-release\/","title":{"rendered":"M I S S I N G &#8211; Dadang Christanto|6 September &#8211; 4 November 2018 &#8211; Press Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='artists-title'  class='avia-section av-av_section-142ff43b7600746a6e970fde5cf91c57 main_color avia-section-default avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_fourth  avia-builder-el-first  avia-bg-style-scroll  container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-13240'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n<div class='flex_column av-av_one_full-2a9015ff38129c418a3f2eafba3e9512 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-1  el_before_av_one_full  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div '   ><p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_hr-a6de236e6c183bbbd700292deacd2b52\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-av_hr-a6de236e6c183bbbd700292deacd2b52{\nheight:20px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-av_hr-a6de236e6c183bbbd700292deacd2b52 hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-2  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first  '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><h3 class=\"p1\" style=\"font-family: 'eb garamond'; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase; text-align: left;\"><a title=\"Missing \u2013 Dadang Christanto|6 September \u2013 4 November 2018 \u2013 Works\" href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/portfolio-item\/missing-dadang-christanto6-september-4-november-2018-works\/\">works\u00a0<\/a>|<a title=\"Missing \u2013 Dadang Christanto|6 September \u2013 4 November 2018 \u2013 Press Release\" href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/portfolio-item\/missing-dadang-christanto6-september-4-november-2018-press-release\/\">\u00a0press release<\/a>\u00a0| <a href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Dadang-Christanto-MISSING-e-brochure.pdf\">E-brochure<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2JLBnuZuTu8&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;fbclid=IwAR30sIS6dnkY9Aqy3XuDmZonrfrj5lYmgRlpeLboYpJqChBiNTNqP6uUcxA\">VIDEO<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/?p=18662\">NEWS<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><div class='flex_column av-av_one_full-2a9015ff38129c418a3f2eafba3e9512 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_one_full  avia-builder-el-last  first flex_column_div column-top-margin'   ><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '  style='font-size:14px; '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: open sans thin; font-size: 25px; line-height: 24px; letter-spacing: 1px; color: #333333;\">M I S S I N G<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dadang Christanto (b.1957) was born in Tegal, a small village in Central Java, Indonesia, into an Indonesian family of chinese descent. He studied painting in Yogyakarta, and was an active member of the arts community. With a diverse body of work that encompasses painting, drawing, sculpture, installation and performance, Christanto has won critical acclaim for his ability to portray and sensitively evoke reflections on universal human suffering and communal grief. He was amongst the first Indonesian artists to enter the international art world in the early 1990s, notably featuring in the first and third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Brisbane in 1993 and 1999, as well as the Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 1998. He was curated into many other major art events worldwide including Gwangju Biennale, South Korea (2000), and was featured in the Venice Biennale in 2003 and at his home country the Yogyakarta Biennial, Indonesia (2003) and\u00a0Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney,\u00a0 (2010).\u00a0His works are held by the National Gallery of Australia, as well as major collections in Singapore, Japan, Indonesia, and in Europe is at Magdeburg Museum Germany. The National Portrait Gallery of Australia recently honoured\u00a0him with an exhibition for his role in the development of art in Australia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Throughout his career, Dadang Christanto has produced a body of works that honours the countless victims of political violence and crimes against humanity. The sincerity and rawness of emotion portrayed in his works stem from his personal narrative, which he has subtly woven into every aspect of his art. References to the year 1965 appear again and again. Christanto\u2019s own father was dragged from their home by soldiers, never to be seen or heard from again. As an eight year-old boy, Christanto was heavily affected by his father\u2019s disappearance, thus his art has become inseparable from this tragedy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The monumental installation presented at Wei-Ling Contemporary, <em>MISSING<\/em> (2018), comprises 110 acrylic and charcoal imagined portraits of the 1965 victims. Dadang Christanto&#8217;s friend knew a news photographer colleague who somehow, had managed to access and produce photos of those who had been captured and tortured between 1965-1966 in Tegal. The Tegal Province Administration office where they worked at was the <em>chambre noir,<\/em> where he would develop the photos. Knowing this, Dadang Christanto had always wondered if his father was amongst those in the photos. Unfortunately, the photographer has since passed away. Although Dadang Christanto has not found these photographic archives, his curiosity led him to keep on searching and in so doing, this body of work materialized.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The tragedy &#8212; a sort of an exposed wound that has never healed &#8212; continues to inform the artist\u2019s works, from graphic, stylized paintings with recurrent references to disembodied heads crying tears of blood, to monumental installations with life-size repetitive figures cast in various materials was inspired by relating to loss and disappearance, as well as site-specific installations and performances that act as memorials to victims of violence in all its forms. Across his practice, the act of repetition is crucial. Most remarkable is the recurring repetition of heads and faces, as seen in the installation <em>Slaughter Tunnel<\/em> (2015), where small portraits of 1965 anonymous faces, each with a streak of red lace emerging from the forehead, line the walls of a cramped and claustrophobic tunnel made out of cardboard, a disposable material, which in this context resembles the way individual lives were treated as meaningless. In another installation, <em>Red Rain<\/em>, the repetitive portraits are lined up, side by side, on the ceiling, with a red thread of blood dangling from the forehead of each portrait. These small portraits resemble official Indonesian identity cards, which differentiate those of Chinese descent. Blood, a recurring motif, is woven into Christanto\u2019s installations, most notably in \u00a0<em>In Red<\/em> \u00a0(1979), \u00a0\u00a0a piece featuring himself wearing a white shirt, seated in front of a white pearl bowl, on a white tablecloth as he splattered and sloshed red beetroot over his face and brushed his teeth with the \u2018blood\u2019. The performance alludes to cultural cleansing and subtly suggests how inhumane violence, like the act of brushing your teeth, becomes an everyday reality.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dadang Christanto\u2019s oeuvre engages with collective history and personal trauma. His painting and sculpture are imbued with an aura of silence, precisely referencing the political silence that enveloped the injustices that has shaped his childhood. His unbounded practice transcends its specific historical and political roots and leads to a wider meditation on the nature of violence and unjust death and suffering.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dadang Christanto will debut \u2018<em>MISSING<\/em>\u2019 his first solo exhibition in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia with Wei-Ling Contemporary from 6 September \u2013 4 November 2018.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The exhibition will feature new installations and sculptures and will include a performance.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Wei-Ling\u00a0Contemporary\u00a0is\u00a0located\u00a0at\u00a0RT01 Sixth\u00a0Floor,\u00a0The\u00a0Gardens\u00a0Mall,\u00a059200,\u00a0Kuala<\/em><em> Lumpur, Malaysia.\u00a0Admission\u00a0hours\u00a0are\u00a0Tuesday-Sunday 11am-7pm.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Please call\u00a0+60322828323\/\u00a0+60322601106\u00a0or\u00a0email: <a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"mailto:noel.weilinggallery@gmail.com\">noel.weilinggallery@gmail.com<\/a><\/em><em>\u00a0 <\/em><em>for\u00a0more information. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; color: #666666; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/main><!-- close content main element --><\/div><\/div><div id='after_section_1'  class='main_color av_default_container_wrap container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-13240'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'><div class='flex_column av-av_one_fourth-2a9015ff38129c418a3f2eafba3e9512 av_one_fourth  avia-builder-el-6  el_after_av_section  el_before_av_one_fourth  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div '   ><\/div>\n<div class='flex_column av-av_one_fourth-61f1f3fb8a14755dafdb04b8bcedc67a av_one_fourth  avia-builder-el-7  el_after_av_one_fourth  el_before_av_one_fourth  flex_column_div '   ><\/div>\n<div class='flex_column av-av_one_fourth-61f1f3fb8a14755dafdb04b8bcedc67a av_one_fourth  avia-builder-el-8  el_after_av_one_fourth  el_before_av_one_fourth  flex_column_div '   ><\/div>\n<div class='flex_column av-av_one_fourth-61f1f3fb8a14755dafdb04b8bcedc67a av_one_fourth  avia-builder-el-9  el_after_av_one_fourth  avia-builder-el-last  flex_column_div '   ><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"works\u00a0|\u00a0press release\u00a0| E-brochure | VIDEO | NEWS M I S S I N G Dadang Christanto (b.1957) was born in Tegal, a small village in Central Java, Indonesia, into an Indonesian family of chinese descent. 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