Nasirun, artist who looked to wayang tradition, 1965–2026

Nasirun, artist who looked to wayang tradition, 1965–2026

Nasirun. Courtesy Gallery Ohana Nasirun, the Indonesian artist whose work drew on the iconography of Javanese wayang traditions, has died. Working primarily in painting, with impasto surfaces and expressive brushstrokes, Nasirun drew on puppetry as a means of contemporary political commentary. Wayang Multinasional (1999), completed five years after the artist graduated from the Indonesian Art Institute, shows a convention of grotesque characters…