Across his series, the works of Fadjar Sidik (1930-2004) were responses to Indonesia’s increasingly modern environment, which was embarking on a new age of industrialisation at the time. This influx of technology was translated onto his canvases as highly graphic, geometric abstractions. Unlike his Yogyakarta peers’ pursuit in realist paintings, the Surabaya-born artist presented a new aesthetic proposition in the age of machinery, which cemented his irreplaceable contribution to the development of modern abstract art in Indonesia.