Story of Lake Limboto portrayed through Iwan Yusuf's painting
30th January 2021
A painting titled "AKAD" by artist Iwan Yusuf exhibited around Gorontalo in 2020. (Debby Mano)
This traveling exhibition program offers an extraordinary inner experience for us that we never exist without doing anything The painting "AKAD" by Iwan Yusuf, a Gorontalo-born painter, evokes a gush of emotions, admiration, and sadness.
The canvas, measuring 130 x 178 centimeters, presents a game of oil paint, with a palette knife and brush strokes.
Looking closer, this painting bears resemblance to a wooden embossed pattern, with blue and red paint peeling off hither and thither.
Some people will immediately gather that it is a type of boat, albeit in the form of two interlocking rings.