{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":146,"auction_id":1,"set_id":1,"lot_number":"112","artist":"Justin Nuyda (1944 - 2022)","title":"Mindscape-Search “Counting Time by the Winds”","starting_price":1400000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1989 (lower left)","medium":"oil on canvas","size":"30” x 36” (76 cm x 91 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":"Acquired directly from the artist","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"Mind, consciousness and happiness – what do these concepts mean in the fundamental context of life? What is it that exists and what is it like to exist? These are the primary questions that concern metaphysics and the primary concerns that renowned visual artist Justin Nuyda explores in his introspective works.
Justin Nuyda is always in constant search for mindscapes – this is how his own website describes the leading modern and contemporary abstract painter. His career spans over five decades, starting when he received his fine arts degree from the University of Santo Tomas. As an artist, Nuyda was awarded with many accolades including the Cultural Center of the Philippines’s Thirteen Artists Award in 1972.
His Mindscape series firmly cemented him as one of the leading Filipino painters. Magoroh Maruyama in his Current Anthropology article described mindscape as “a structure of reasoning, cognition, perception, conceptualization, design, planning, and decision making that may vary from one individual [...] to another.” In other words, mindscape, quite literally, refers to one’s mind and how they react, plan, and design their lives. This incredibly personal method of thinking means that one’s mindscape is different from each other and this unique perspective of mindscapes is made tangible through Nuyda’s series.
Nuyda’s abstraction takes on a dreamlike and charming personality. His oeuvre is full of colorful landscapes that are a combination of intense brushstrokes and striking palette, each eliciting a deeply personal reaction from its viewers. Abstract for him is governed only by the limits of one’s own imagination; it is not looking through reality to find the dream but finding the dream in reality. In every work, Nuyda sets out to find the surreal in the real.
In this 1989 work entitled Mindscape-Search “Counting Time by the Winds,” Nuyda’s refined grace and mastery of the landscape is in full display. Like the title describes, this piece is born primarily from the artist’s mind instead of the physical act of seeing and perceiving. In shades of blue and orange, Nuyda masterfully conjures the charismatic enigma of the mountains on a sunny day.
His painting process is as spontaneous and personal as his works. “The concept behind the artwork develops as I paint and then concludes when I lift the paintbrush away from the canvas,”He said to Manila Bulletin Lifestyle. “I paint as I go. I compose as I paint.” This process ensures the intimately poetic nature of his works.
Nuyda’s works deal with identity and change, the beauty and the barren. His mastery in colors and his distinctive approach to his works have cemented his place in the art history books. (Hannah Valiente)","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":2200000,"bp":0.2016,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":2200000,"userBid":5930,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":2643520,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":119,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/1/1/lot/112.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[2200000,2400000,2600000,2800000,3000000,3200000,3400000,3600000,3800000,4000000,4200000,4400000,4600000,4800000,5000000,5500000,6000000,6500000,7000000,7500000,8000000,8500000,9000000,9500000,10000000,11000000,12000000,13000000,14000000,15000000,16000000,17000000,18000000,19000000,20000000],"prev":111,"next":113,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}