Social Consciousness
Indonesian artist. Hansen Thiam Sun, known by most merely as "Hansen," is a deft and unique artist on the international contemporary painting scene, both for his adroit handling of multiple media and for his Innovative approach to figuration. His background and how he arrived at his vocation of art making, is also very fascinating. Born In Toho, Borneo, Hansen was always inspired by the beauty and...

In The Crowd
Aminudin TH Siregar
These latest of Hansen's serial paintings offer issues around urban people represented segmentally by children, adolescents and grownups. In a detailed observation both the aesthetic tendency and theme represented would seem to be extension from the previous serials ever exhibited, namely Children Abuse and Global Warming.

However, differing a bit from the...

Identity in a crowd
Arti Magazine, Edition 022/December 2009
Bringing to the frond a main figure ( idea), amongs many figures
Text and photo : Sony Wibisono
There might be moments, when we have so many questions in our minds because we are standing in the middle of a crowds, for example a bus stop in the morning. So many people gather in that place, a ticket go between seller, who is looking for custom...

Love Letter in the Twelfth Month At O House Text and Photos Luther Kembaren
Arti/edisi 012 February 2009
Painting exhibition with a theme of "A love letter in the Twelfth Month"at O House Gallery sparkled with stars. Artists such as Ahdiat Joedawinata, Amalia Sigit, Hanafi, Kartika Affandi and Made Wianta...participated in this exhibition. They used different media from canvas, silk, aluminium and vidio.

The atmosphere at O house Gallery was very luxuri...

Worlds and ideas collide in Immutable Objects
Features - November 10, 2007
Margaret Agusta, Contributor, Jakarta
Large frameless canvases filled with carefully framed color fields dominated by grey, black, and white, with only occasional hints of a wider rainbow of muted hues amid both figurative and abstract forms. What do they mean, and what do they say?

In his current exhibition at Cemara 6 Gallery, Hansen Thiam Sun sp...

Shocking Germany and Spain
arti magazine 008 | Oktober 2008 edition
Indonesian paintings are now more squinted in foreign countries.
Indonesian painters are now more and more getting invited to exhibit their paintings abroad, either in solo or in group. This cannot be separated from their quality that related with technical or contents from the theme currently performed. Another important factor is the netw...

Hansen Thiam Sun, Children Abuse Series, 2008. Acrylic on canvas, 120 x 100 cm. Courtesy of the artist.
NY Art magazine NOV - DEC 2008 edition
Perhaps one of the most exciting new global contemporary art scenes is Indonesia, where surprising risks are being taken by artists who are interested in merging Indonesian artistic traditions with Western currents in art practice. Nowhere is this more evident than in the bold minimalist abstractions of artist Hansen Thiam Sun, also known by the one-wor...

ARTisSpectrum magazine
Vol. 19 May 2008
Hansen’s complex, multi layered paintings are studied in texture, color, and visual line, but they are also vivid action painting in which the artist’s guest to rest at the moment of the painting. Are for reserved in writhing explosions of color. These expressionist moment in Hansen’s work surge and ride on his polychromatic backgrounds, and see all the more organic juxtapose...

NY ARTS magazine International Edition
Vol. 13 No. 7/8
Hansen Tiam Sun makes paintings that bridge the gap between abstraction and naturalism. His works show a penchant for figurative tendecies, even as he takes inovative approaches to the abstract and conceptual. By blending together disparate movements, genres , and mediums, Hansen collapses false dichotomies and gives rise to truly unique works of self-expressions. Working def...

Between Lirada and Nirada
MAJALAH SENI RUPA - VISUAL ARTS # 21. October / November 2007 BANDUNG Soemardja Gallery, Bandung
In recent development of fine arts, abstract painting seems to quietly leave some problems. Soemardja Gallery, the heir to the “Bandungism”, floats in the problems through Hansen’s solo exhibition, “Immutable Objects”, that took place August, 10—27. In discussion of abstract painting and i...

SHANG HAI ART FAIR
SHANG HAI ART FAIR
Date: November 15th - 19th, 2007
Address: RM 411, Office Building No. 595 Caoxi Rd. (N) Shang Hai 200030 China.

Immutable Objects - solo exhibition in Soemardja Gallery
Hansen Solo Painting Exhibition - IMMUTABLE OBJECTS
10 - 27 Agustus 2007 Soemardja Gallery - Jl. Ganeca 10 Bandung
Fine Art and Design Department - Bandung Technologie Institute
Curator by Aminudin TH. Siregar
In 2006, when I saw Hansen for the first time, his latest work emerged two contradictory problems at the same time, paintings with figurative tendencies which also i...

HANSEN SOLO PAINTING EXHIBITION "Who Wore the White Glove"
HANSEN was born in 1960 in Toho, a beautiful and pristine hamlet in West Kalimantan (Borneo). The purity and beauty of the environment in which he grew up stimulated young HANSEN to become deeply interest in visual arts, especially drawing, a hobby that became deeply embedded in his life even in adulthood. He has had his share of overseas travels and adventures. He returned to Indonesia in 1990 a...

Closing the Gaps by Lou Nietunz
As the road climbs up the mountain from Ubud towards the Neka Museum, galleries abound, lining the street to the point of ubiquity, They can start to blend together after a while, and unless you really know where you're going, it can be a boggling prospect to find what you are looking for. Nestled along this strip is the timid Hansen Art Gallery, home to the now famous works by the artist of the s...

"EAST - WEST Through Woman"
Hansen Thiam Sun Solo Painting Exhibition "EAST - WEST Through Woman" at Alila Ubud Gallery Bali (July 14th to September 30th, 2006) Curator: Mr. Aminudin TH Siregar Opened by: Mr. Chusin Setiadikara Friday, July 14th, 2006 17.00 - Press gathering at poolside 18.30 - Opening Cocktail at Alila Ubud Gallery Hansen Thiam Sun, born in Toho, West Borneo, is a pioneer artist of minimalism pai...

Hansen Solo Painting Exhibition “Celebration of Inner Dancing II”
After having success in exhibiting his first solo painting exhibition on August 2005, Hansen is invited by The Legian Bali to perform his second solo painting exhibition that take place until March 20, 2006. The title for the exhibition is “Celebration of Inner Dancing II” and the concept of remains the same: “East meets West”.

HANSEN'S SOLO PAINTING EXHIBITION
East and West are in fact illusions, except they hardly meets. Men yearn for peace and harmony, are they possible? With so many differences among men. Do we know not, from the outside we appear different, but we are one indeed at the core. Perhaps different exist only because of our self identification. The truth is we are never separate, always one. Always been connected, one world, one universe,..