STEPPING INTO A WORLD OF A DIFFERENT NATURE FROM THE ONE HE IS ALREADY FAMILIAR WITH, GERY PURAATMADJA FOUND HIS TRUE CALLING IN A WONDROUS WORLD OF MAKE-BELIEVE.
For Gery Puraatmadja, connecting to people has been one of his biggest passions, and, in the end, his career choice. However, little did he know what life had in store for him when he took a mantle of a missing-in-action birthday party entertainer in one fateful afternoon in the early 1990s.
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Tuesday, October 27, 2015
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Basoeki Abdullah Centennial Exhibition MAESTRO OF ENCHANTMENT
CELEBRATING THE 100TH YEAR OF BASOEKI ABDULLAH, THE CITY COMES ALIVE WITH ENCHANTING SPIRIT OF THE MAESTRO.
Jakarta is no stranger to some of the country’s most important cultural events; as recently the capital hosted a historical exhibition that highlighted the life of one of Indonesia’s great artists, Basoeki Abdullah.
Dubbed “Rayuan: 100 Tahun Basoeki Abdullah”, literally means “Enchantment: the 100th Year of Basoeki Abdullah, the event lasted from Sept. 21 to 30 and Museum Nasional in Central Jakarta was chosen to be the center of the ten-day long exhibition.
Basoeki Abdullah is one of Indonesia’s prominent modern painters. His name was and is still widely known among art enthusiasts around the world. He was famous for his portraits of the world leaders, including that of Indonesia’s first president, Ir. Soekarno; the first prime minister of Singapore, Lee Kwan Yu; and Sultan Hasanal Bolkiah.
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