Was born on 14th. August, 1971 in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia. She received her tertiary education at the Indonesian Institute of Art, Yogyakarta. She won 1st. Place in the Asian Artists Fellowship the 14th. Annual Freeman Foundation Vermont Studio Center Award (2006), USA. Her artworks were accepted and collected abroad; such as collected painting at the Olympic Museum of Sarajevo and the City of Banja Luka (2010) and Collected painting of Luciano Benetton-Imago Mundi, Italy (2015). In 2010 she published a book titled “Celebration Book of Painting for the 13th. World Peace Art Exhibition, Seoul, Korea. Her numerous held exhibitions abroad in 2019 at “Belt and Road” Exhibition, Anhui Lin Sanzhi Painting and Calligraphy Institute, Hexian County, China; “Hands Across the Pacific” Art Exhibition, Ningbo Museum of Art, Ningbo, China; “A New Chapter of Silk Road, the Road and Belt” International Painting Artistic Creation Exchange Exhibition, the Dong Jining Art Museum, Xianning, China; Hubei Art Festival, Wuhan, China; The 19th. Japan International Art Exchange Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan; 2020 Virtual Art Exhibition Meadows Mask Art Creativity Under Lockdown Artist Against Covid 19 Under The Patronage of UNESCO Beirut Office, Lebanon.
Grace Tjondronimpuno
Power of Love
Dalam karya ini digambarkan figur-figur yang saling berhadapan yang masing-masing memiliki kepentingan yang berseberangan. Seperti dalam kehidupan ini selalu ada hal positif dan negatif, ada baik dan buruk, ada yang toleran dan egois.Tokoh Gatotkaca digambarkan sebagai “Super Hero”-nya Indonesia yang melindungi bangsa ini dari pengaruh kekuatan negatif yang ingin menghancurkan bangsa ini. Gatotkaca dalam karya ini dilindungi oleh aura positif yang memberikannya kekuatan super melawan musuh-musuhnya. Aura positif itu berupa kekuatan cinta, berfikir positif dan rasa syukur, yang pada akhirnya akan melahirkan rasa empati, kepedulian terhadap sesama, saling menghargai, gotong royong dll, dan semuanya itu akan membuat kita merasa bahagia, Bahagia sebagai manusia seutuhnya yang telah ditakdirkan hidup saling membutuhan sebagai makhluk sosial.
In this work, the figures are depicted facing one another, each of which has opposite interests. As in this life there are always positive and negative things, there are good and bad, there are tolerant and selfish. The figure of Gatotkaca is described as the “Super Hero” of Indonesia who protects this nation from the influence of negative forces who want to destroy this nation. Gatotkaca in this work is protected by a positive aura that gives him super strength against his enemies. The positive aura is in the form of the power of love, positive thinking and gratitude, which in the end will give birth to a sense of empathy, concern for others, mutual respect, mutual cooperation, etc., and all of which will make us feel happy, happy as whole humans who have been destined to live with each other. need as social beings.