Ichwan noor biography of michael

Ichwan Noor is a Yogyakarta-based artist famous for his life-size sculptures of hybrid shapes between human, animal and technology.A graduate of the School of Visual Art at the Indonesia Institute of the Arts (ISI) in Yogyakarta, and a professor of Fine Arts at Yogyakarta University, Noor works mainly with bronze, aluminium and resin.

He is called 'The Maker', a nickname he earned by mentoring other artists and sharing his knowledge of the world of materials with them.In 2011 he began what is his best-known series, the Beetle sphere, the protagonist is the 1953 Volkswagen Beetle that is compacted into a new form.

The original design of the car was supposedly based on a sketch by Adolf Hitler, or at any rate it was he who commissioned Porsche to design a car for the average German family that had a fuel consumption of no more than 7 litres per 100 km, was air-cooled, could reach and maintain a speed of 100 km/h for long journeys a