I GUSTI NYOMAN LEMPAD’S NARRATIVE WORKS – TAASA Review June 2015

Adrian Vickers W orking on the recent collaboration Lempad of Bali: The Illuminating Line (EDM Singapore, 2014) – reviewed in the March 2015 TAASA Review – meant identifying Lempad’s complex use of iconography and narrative in his work, which revealed the brilliance of his vision.

Lempad’s extensive body of work gives an insight into the wealth of Balinese stories and their visual deployment. Sutasoma’s meditation, I Gusti Nyoman Lempad, ink and pencil on paper, 30x37cm.

Courtesy Museum Rudana, Ubud, Bali I Gusti Nyoman Lempad was legendary not only as a radically different artist from the 1930s, but also as the architect who created Ubud...