Saepul Bahri
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Saepul Bahri

Indonesia • 1979

Biography

Saepul Bahri is an established painter from Indonesia with a distinctive surrealist style with flexible and twisted human body figures. He has an interest in body anatomy and started painting human bodies with their bones when he was in middle school. Saepul also likes the imagination of the sea and waves, this is what then gives the shapes of flexibility and twists to the figures in his works. There are number of artists who inspired him such as Rene Magritte, HR Giger, Antonio Blanco, Dullah. Through his works, Saepul wants to show the mirage of reality in an infinite space.

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