艾珠·克裡絲汀

The work is in good condition overall, as is the canvas, which is clear and taut. There is evidence of light wear and handling around the edges of the painting, but the paint layers are healthy and bright. Examination under ultraviolet light shows no sign of restoration. Framed.
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“’Live to the fullest, sometimes to the extreme. To love, to experience love and life in its extreme pain and happiness.’” These two forces create magnificent strokes and a pulling energy to Ay Tjoe’s works. They possess a certain mystery and riddle which we are enthralled and attracted to unlock. Like a closed door with the key outside, Ay Tjoe dares us to open her inner most intimate and barest secret. Courageous, raw, authentic and passionate are words that describe who Christine is.”

Prerequisite For Second Studio exemplifies Ay Tjoe Christine’s constant preoccupation with lines and structure, which can be observed as early as 2002, in her Bangunan (Building) series, where it manifested visually as architectural elements, all the way to the Lama Sabakthani works (2010), where structure is no longer a visual aesthetic but part of the creation process.

The way Ay Tjoe melds figuration and abstraction shows the importance of how each element is conceived and how they engage with one another visually. Hidden behind the evocative strokes and semblance of indeterminacy is in fact, a heightened sense of logic and clairvoyance. Indeed, her enigmatic titles gives her mysterious compositions an additional intellectual depth. Indeed, Ay Tjoe once confided that she has a penchant for organization and neatness, placing the scattered objects lying around her home inside boxes. The activity is perhaps Ay Tjoe’s idiosyncratic way of expressing her fascination with the methodology of arranging things, whether literal or symbolic, into their place.

In Prerequisite For Second Studio, Ay Tjoe articulates the perpetual push and pull to seek balance between emotion and reason, as well as the heart and the mind. No matter how these fragments are stacked and pressured together, there are parts that inevitably spill over, seeping ever so slightly but inexorably, into the empty white background. A powerful visualization of the journey of the soul, the present painting is austere, intense and emotionally gripping, but it is also emblematic of the power of passion and life which Ay Tjoe holds close to her heart.