Gede Mahendra Yasa (b.1967)

Born 1967 in Singaraja, Bali, he has been intensively learning about the history and discourses of Western painting. This is generally, what drives his effort forward. He needs the important painters from the riches of the history of the Western modern contemporary painting as his sparring partners. One cannot deny the fact that Mahendra Yasa makes use of the appropriation method. One can say that the appropriation method has been the means or the vehicle for Mahendra Yasa to revisit painting itself. His intensive study on the realism approach and the concepts of the modern masters has taken him to a unique method of appropriation, an achievement that is evident in the works h...