BLACK, KCALB by Christine Ay Tjoe - Contemporary Abstract Art Print for Modern Home & Office Decor | Perfect for Living Rooms, Bedrooms & Creative Spaces

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Recognising one of Indonesia’s most prominent contemporary artists, this publication brings together work from Christine Ay Tjoe’s exhibition, ‘Black kcalB, Black, kcalB’, at White Cube Bermondsey, London in 2018. In the exhibition, Ay Tjoe explores the concept of darkness in a series of oil paintings and drawings on aluminium plates, based on the premise of human imperfection, a notion manifested in the spontaneity and layered gestural marks visibly embedded in the surface of the works. ‘The reality is that darkness is part of human nature,’ Ay Tjoe has said. ‘If we create a distance between it and the self, treat it as something that can be calmed, made docile, be reshaped, freed yet part of ourselves, it is not just the enemy but an eternal life partner.’ With reproductions of all the works in this series, as well as full bleed details and installation shots, the book also features an extended essay by American curator Diana Campbell Betancourt, Artistic Director of Samdani Art Foundation.

Published in a limited edition of 600, with two different covers selected by the artist, this is a comprehensive record of an important body of work for Ay Tjoe, reflecting a departure from her more familiar, colourful abstract paintings.