Entang Wiharso awarded 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship

The First Art Newspaper on the Net    Established in 1996 Friday, March 29, 2024


Entang Wiharso awarded 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship
Entang Wiharso with his work. Photo: Boris Kirpotin, Bernier/Eliades.



NEW YORK, NY.- Entang Wiharso, whose artwork is exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the world, has received a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship.

The announcement was made Wednesday by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in The New York Times. In a statement, the foundation writes, “This year, after considering the recommendations of panels and juries consisting of hundreds of distinguished artists, scholars, and scientists, the Board of Trustees has granted 168 Fellowships to a diverse group of scholars, artists, and scientists. Appointed on the basis of prior achievement ad exceptional promise, the successful candidates were chosen from a group of almost 3,000 applicants in the Foundation’s ninety-fifth competition.”

Wiharso is one of 25 artists selected from the United States and Canada. Guggenheim Fellowships are awarded by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to artists who have "demonstrated exceptional capacity for significant exhibition or performance of their work or who have productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability and a significant record of publication as writers, scholars and scientists."

Wiharso’s work has been exhibited in prestigious exhibition including at the 55th Venice Biennale, Prague Biennale 6, Prospect.3 and the Beijing Biennale as well as in international institutions including the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art, Peekskill; Jeonbuk Museum, Korea; Museum MACAN, Jakarta; Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore; Museum of Modern Art, Gunma; Hilger Brotkunsthalle, Vienna; Singapore Art Museum; Singapore; Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta; Musée d’art contemporain, Lyon; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide; RISD Museum, Providence; MACRO, Rome; GAMeC, Bergamo; Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul; Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai; Mead Art Museum; Amherst, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki; MSU Museum, East Lansing; and Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Ithaca.

The Guggenheim Fellowship will help support his current project, "Temple of Hope: Tunnel of Light," during which he will extend his previous installations of temple structures into the landscape, bring the setting and background into focus. “Landscape plays an important role in human history, impacting the creation of civilizations that mark our existence and our ability to survive. Landscape also has strong associations with home. I plan to visit areas of the Unites States with important connections to the American story, particularly places connected with narratives about expansion, conflict, morality, belonging and equality. I’m interested in the origin stories of the American character and key historical experiences that shaped Americans’ relationship with the land.”

“My Guggenheim year will allow me time outside the studio to travel and explore protected landscapes, historic sites and places changed by industry like the oil fields in Texas,” he says. “I also plan to research and visit important artworks dealing with land, light and shadow. Having grown up in Indonesia, I compare the Hindu and Buddhist temples in Java with the works of James Turrell, especially Roden Crater, and Walter De Maria’s The Lightning Field in the US. I feel that their work, man-made structures like the ancient temples, underscore our connection to the earth, de-emphasize the now and force a reckoning of our ephemeral place in the trajectory of time. Architecture changes and marks the landscape, creating and building memory and history.”

An immigrant to the US from Indonesia, Wiharso notes, “I never felt a strong emotional or cultural connection between America and Indonesia, although Indonesia adopted and learned democracy from America. It is important to me to reconcile these two places and I hope to consolidate a connection between my country of birth and my adopted home in my artwork. I’m honored to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship and appreciate the support for my work.”










Today's News

April 12, 2019

Exhibition at the McNay Art Museum celebrates rare work of U.S. stage designers

Christie's Design Sale includes the last work of Diego Giacometti

Image of crying toddler on US border wins World Press Photo

600 books lost in World War II returned to Bonn University

After Montreal, the Museum of Fine Arts opens first Calder retrospective in Australia

David Zwirner shows colour photographs from the 1970s by American photographer William Eggleston

The Fenix, the migration museum acquires video film Bill Viola

Brazilian Modernism at S│2 London: Carvalho and Lorenzato

Vienna's Secession opens an exhibition of paintings by Peter Doig

Led Zeppelin fully signed self-titled debut album sold for USD $32,156 at auction

Freeman's announces highlights included in the Bi-Annual American Furniture, Folk and Decorative Arts Auction

Entang Wiharso awarded 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship

Aspen Art Museum opens exhibition of new works by Gabriel Rico

En Plein Air landscape artist José Arpa y Parea among featured talent in Heritage Auctions' sale

Kölnischer Kunstverein opens an exhibition of works by Jay Chung and Q Takeki Maeda

Solo exhibition by Gardar Eide Einarsson on view at Maureen Paley

11 Norman Rockwell paintings to be offered in Heritage Auctions' May 3 American Fine Art Sale

The Queen's House, Greenwich announces 'Elizabeth I: Construction of an Icon', a performance procession

Mazzoleni opens a solo fine art photography exhibition at their London gallery

MCA Australia exceeds audience records with over 1 million visitors

Natural History: Forum Gallery opens a group exhibition

Remai Modern appoints Lynn McMaster as interim CEO

3 Ways To Promote Your Upcoming Art Exhibit

Download Wallpapers Or Ringtones From 9apps Apart From The Mobile Applications

Why Should You Try to Pass Cisco 300-115 Exam?




Museums, Exhibits, Artists, Milestones, Digital Art, Architecture, Photography,
Photographers, Special Photos, Special Reports, Featured Stories, Auctions, Art Fairs,
Anecdotes, Art Quiz, Education, Mythology, 3D Images, Last Week, .

 



Founder:
Ignacio Villarreal
(1941 - 2019)
Editor & Publisher: Jose Villarreal
Art Director: Juan José Sepúlveda Ramírez

Royalville Communications, Inc
produces:

ignaciovillarreal.org juncodelavega.com facundocabral-elfinal.org
Founder's Site. Hommage
to a Mexican poet.
Hommage
       

The First Art Newspaper on the Net. The Best Versions Of Ave Maria Song Junco de la Vega Site Ignacio Villarreal Site
Tell a Friend
Dear User, please complete the form below in order to recommend the Artdaily newsletter to someone you know.
Please complete all fields marked *.
Sending Mail
Sending Successful