Imam Sucahyo was born in 1978 in Tuban, East Java. Sucahyo is a visionary wanderer who explores the world through a visionary artists' lens. There is even a word for this wandering: kaloyukan meaning aimless wandering. It is a bustling world filled with daily horror vacuii. Crowded, noisy, full of intrigue and unanswered questions and spiritual vibrancy.
Sucahyo’s life was not easy, and his art reflects his way of containing the struggle for moral and spiritual balance, ultimately rising above drugs, extreme mental and emotional stress and the constant need for a connective animistic vision of the world.
His work reflects the vivid intensities of his culture, the ever-present dazzling colors, the never-ending activity of a marketplace culture with a long deep history. His drawings and paintings reflect an activated peacefulness at the same time they are mirrors of the natural cacophony of Javanese life.
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