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Roby Dwi Antono — A Girl with Crustacean's Claw
Roby Dwi Antono

A Girl with Crustacean's Claw

2021

Rendered in spray paint on canvas, "A Girl with Crustacean's Claw" presents one of Roby Dwi Antono's characteristic wide-eyed feminine figures, here fused with the armored appendage of a crustacean in a pairing that is both unsettling and strangely tender. The 2021 work measures 120 by 100 cm, a scale that allows the artist's technical precision to register fully, from the smooth gradients of the figure's skin to the segmented, almost mechanical quality of the claw that replaces or extends from her hand. This tension between the organic and the alien, the girlish and the monstrous, sits at the heart of Antono's practice and gives the composition its psychological charge. Antono, who emerged from the Indonesian contemporary art scene and has since built a devoted international following, consistently draws on influences spanning Surrealism, Japanese pop aesthetics, and lowbrow art to construct figures that feel simultaneously familiar and otherworldly. The spray paint medium, traditionally associated with street and urban art, is deployed here with a painterly refinement that elevates the work well beyond its vernacular origins. The result is a surface that rewards close looking, with tonal depth and a luminous quality that reproductions rarely capture adequately. For collectors, this work represents a strong example of Antono's mature output, completed during a period of rapid critical and market recognition for the artist. The canvas is signed and is currently available through Ross + Co. Gallery. Works of this scale and subject specificity circulate with increasing scarcity as institutional and private demand for Antono's paintings continues to grow across Asia, Europe, and North America.

Medium
Spray Paint on Canvas
Overall
Signed
Yes

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Roby Dwi Antono, A Girl with Crustacean's Claw, 2021

Rendered in spray paint on canvas, "A Girl with Crustacean's Claw" presents one of Roby Dwi Antono's characteristic wide-eyed feminine figures, here fused with the armored appendage of a crustacean in a pairing that is both unsettling and strangely tender. The 2021 work measures 120 by 100 cm, a scale that allows the artist's technical precision to register fully, from the smooth gradients of the figure's skin to the segmented, almost mechanical quality of the claw that replaces or extends from her hand. This tension between the organic and the alien, the girlish and the monstrous, sits at the heart of Antono's practice and gives the composition its psychological charge. Antono, who emerged from the Indonesian contemporary art scene and has since built a devoted international following, consistently draws on influences spanning Surrealism, Japanese pop aesthetics, and lowbrow art to construct figures that feel simultaneously familiar and otherworldly. The spray paint medium, traditionally associated with street and urban art, is deployed here with a painterly refinement that elevates the work well beyond its vernacular origins. The result is a surface that rewards close looking, with tonal depth and a luminous quality that reproductions rarely capture adequately. For collectors, this work represents a strong example of Antono's mature output, completed during a period of rapid critical and market recognition for the artist. The canvas is signed and is currently available through Ross + Co. Gallery. Works of this scale and subject specificity circulate with increasing scarcity as institutional and private demand for Antono's paintings continues to grow across Asia, Europe, and North America.

Medium
Spray Paint on Canvas
Dimensions
overall: 120 x 100 cm
Year
2021
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist
Seen at
Ross + Co. Gallery

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