{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":56513,"auction_id":110,"set_id":144,"lot_number":"84","artist":"Jigger Cruz (b. 1984)","title":"Untitled","starting_price":1600000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 2015 (lower right)","medium":"oil on canvas","size":"48\" x 48\" (122 cm x 122 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":"Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"Jigger Cruz The Drama of Color and Texture To view the works of Jigger Cruz is to be conscious of the above and the below. The above is the thick, three-dimensional layers of paint squeezed out of the tube and left to dry as globs of paint. These paint streaks almost overwhelm the canvas, covering the below with thick layers of oil and pigment. The below, meanwhile, is another painting altogether, often done in the Western style of realism, and this is almost entirely covered up, cut, slashed, or burned.<br /><br /> The works of Jigger Cruz evoke such a visceral and vital reaction through their ‘defacement’ of classical pieces. His calculated defacement is, at its essence, a fight between Western realism and the many branches of indigenous art style. Though almost totally covered, it is impossible to fully blot out the canvas below.<br /><br /> “Even though buried under a heavy lattice of multicolored paint, the basic compositional elements of the classical painting can be traced and understood by the viewer, if not with their eyes, then with their mind,” Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay wrote in A Mark from the Periphery.<br /><br /> Indeed, despite the heavy coverage of the paint, it is as though the painting below shines through it, a testament to the Western tradition and its permanent etch on the people’s consciousness worldwide. Cruz’s struggle as he reaches this crossroad is evident through his works – his act of squeezing paint out of a tube is an act of discourse. It is an attempt to draw the line from the West’s seeming omnipresence within the art world, if that line is possible. (Hannah Valiente)","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":2200000,"bp":0.2016,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":2200000,"userBid":8716,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":2643520,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":60295,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/110/144/lot/84.jpg","isFeatured":1},{"id":60751,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/110/144/lot/84a.jpg","isFeatured":0}]},"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":83,"next":85,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}