Image size : 30 cm / 17.7ø in
Sheet size : 25.2 x 30.7 cm / 9 15/16 x 12 1/16 in.
Limited edition of 10, signed and numbered by the artist
About the artwork
Rimbaraya Syurganyata - “Heavenly Jungle” - IWENG’s masterpiece - was born by accident, when stepping on a tube of paint while wandering around the painting studio of the Faculty of Fine Arts of Bandung (West Java).
With the intention not to waste these drops of sacred paint, IWENG started gratifying a 1.45 per 2m canvas, “square one” of 28 years to come of spontaneous iterations, which span today 36 canvases forming a surreal pyramidal composition of 7m high, 14m wide.
Consecrated in 2000 at Havana Biennale, which invited him to bring his 27-canvas masterpiece from Java to Cuba, he casually described his intentions:
“In my mind I just try to be an architect for my other life.
I try to live in a good way, maybe I’ll have another life after that.
This is an architecture, or a design, for my ‘paraiso’.
So after you are dead and we see each other again, I’ll show you my ‘real’ home.”.
