Primo Marella Gallery is pleased to present the first European solo exhibition by Indonesian artist Gede Mahendra Yasa (1967, Singaraja, Indonesia).

The project “Painting for Painting’s Sake” - conceived for the exhibition in Milano - challenges the art history from the West by displaying paintings inspired from the main characters of Modern and Contemporary art.  From Gerard Richter to Chris Ofili, from Jackson Pollock to Jasper Jhons, René Magritte and Vincent van Gogh; the artist from Indonesia dialogues with the Masters of the 20th-century art.

Gede Mahendra Yasa offers to the public his personal interpretation on the pluralism of contemporary art. He investigates the various possibilities of painting, the language  considered as “high art” since the Renaissance.

Like the curator Asmudjo Jono brilliantly epitomizes “…What he does is to trace the history of painting and to find various new possibilities when making subject matters out of the theories, concepts, and history of painting. This approach has yielded a variety of paintings – as witnessed in this exhibition - that can only be achieved through a contemporary art framework. Therefore, this is the evidence showing that ultimately, hendra is indeed a contemporary painter.”.