艾珠·克裡絲汀

Excellent overall condition as viewed. The diagonal scuff across left side on white pigment is probably inherent (visible in the catalog illustration). Any other inconsistency is due to the artist's working method. Framed.
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Much has been analysed and admired within Christine Ay Tjoe’s body of works. The artist’s appropriation of colours in her abstract narratives act as metaphors for human emotions and existential longing, and has cemented her role as a leading contemporary Indonesian painter. I Need Your Hand #2 is an atypical work from Ay Tjoe’s oeuvre, for unlike her other paintings, the present work is not filled with an array of colours, and the canvas is largely left blank. From what may be expected in her paintings, with their liberal use of colours that are seen as the artist’s unconscious unveiled, the current piece is therefore a divorce from such aesthetics and compositional patterns.

And yet the absent of hues garners the work with a certain kind of intimacy, for by withholding such colours to inhabit the narrative, I Need Your Hand #2 creates a sense of emotional vulnerability that is left exposed without the safety of colours to hold on too. Also seen in the painting is the image of a hand. It is a rarity in Ay Tjoe’s oeuvre for the artist to populate her works with figurative references, and to find this singular image in a narrative where colours are scarce, further lends a sense of uncertainty to the enigmatic meaning of the work.

Ay Tjoe is a highly intuitive artist whose relationship with colours has provided her oeuvre with a special energy and rhythm. Therefore I Need Your Hand #2 is both a revealing look into her personal history that influenced the given narrative, as well as shows the artist experimenting with a paired down colour palette to find new means of expressing herself within a creative paradigm. As seen in the present work, Ay Tjoe’s choice of aesthetics and composition elevates I Need Your Hand #2 from its abstract origins, and inspires a dialogue with the audience to acknowledge their feelings that arise when looking at the painting.