Satoto Budi Hartono
Satoto Budi Hartono was born in 1983 in Tegal, Central Java. He is an electronic engineering graduate who is currently working as a batik painter in Yogyakarta. His work is usually inspired by Indonesian landscapes and women figures and their activities.
In the work he made for the Pentagonal Icositetrahedron critiques the social and political situation in Indonesia. In his opinion, the culture of Indonesia has a strong religious component, as can be seen from people’s behaviour, which is often driven by religious values. This has indirectly formed a society that tends to ‘follow’ orders rather than to criticise them. Budi Hartono believes that if people follow an authority without questioning its motives, this could be a threat for the country. In this work, the artist zooms in on the theme of corruption, which he considers a main problem in Indonesia. The ants symbolise the many corrupt people. He believes that a lot of ‘little’ people who follow other ‘little’ people in corruption are just as destructive as a few ‘big’ corrupt people.
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