{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":59752,"auction_id":186,"set_id":220,"lot_number":"37","artist":"Sanggawa<br/>\nElmer Borlongan (b. 1967)<br/>\nKaren Ocampo-Flores (b. 1966)<br/>\nMark Justiniani (b. 1966)<br/>\nJoy Mallari (b. 1966)<br/>\nFederico Sievert (b. 1961)","title":"Paglaom Padayon","starting_price":4000000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1996 (lower right)","medium":"oil on canvas","size":"78\" x 147\" (198 cm x 373 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":null,"exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"This work on offer in this auction, Paglaom Padayon, was one of those that the Sanggawa painted during their prime years. A mural-sized painting, it was notably acquired by a Philippine conglomerate. The title is a Cebuano phrase that translates to \"move forward with hope\" (paglaom = hope, padayon = carry on, move forward, keep going). Nowhere in this work can the Sanggawa members' various styles be seen. Instead, they meld, echoing the work's central theme: the Filipinos' collective power, fueled by a shared vision of the nation's advancement. \n\nRendered in vibrant, tropical colors, the work presents a montage of the Filipino nation's turbulent history and empowering future, serving as an homage to the spirit of Botong Francisco's 1964 mural, Filipino Struggles Through History, with both masterpieces depicting the historical development of the Filipino identity as a result of centuries of contact, subjugation, and struggle. The work also very much captures Botong’s painting style, infusing it with elements of magical realism filled with allegories and symbolism, evoking a feeling of both familiarity and dreamlike delight that stays in character with the painting’s intent. \n\nOn the upper left, the balangay is shown treading the high seas as it facilitated migration, trade, and commerce in the pre-colonial Philippines. The rough seas mark a transition to the turbulent Spanish colonial rule, depicted through the symbolism of the sword and the cross, the instruments of pacification. Below are rendered the colors blue, red, and white, the colors of the French flag (and eventually the Philippine flag), whose 18th-century revolution inspired and influenced both Rizal (represented by the quill), Bonifacio, and the Katipunan. Interestingly, the way the quill and the revolutionaries are placed within a specific color sparks curiosity: the quill resting on the blue and white represents Rizal and the propagandistas' initial aim of peaceful reform and the katipuneros seemingly veiled underneath by a red banner, signifying their eagerness to shed blood in the name of freedom (although Rizal implicitly supported the revolution, as proven by Pio Valenzuela’s 1914 memoirs and his final sworn testimony in 1917). \n\nIn the lower center of the painting rests a summary of the most significant turning points of the 20th century: the Philippine-American War and the subsequent American colonization (represented by the bald eagle, a US national symbol, wrangling the kalabaw), the tragedy and destruction of World War II, and the brutal and repressive dictatorship (represented by the clenched fist and a hand enmeshed in barbed wires, which Martial Law activists used a symbol of oppression, referenced to in this work as a geared battalion of the infamous MetroCom). Juan de la Cruz and Inang Bayan emerge from a split-open bamboo. They are the modern-day Malakas and Maganda, armed with symbols of peace and harmony: the Mindanaoan kutyapi and the tambuli, instruments that sing of both hope and defiance for the Filipino people as they navigate both the turbulent seas and the scorching flames in their shared aim of inclusive progress and genuine self-determination. A third figure can be seen: a boy seemingly flying. He represents the youth of the nation, the inheritors of a legacy of a continuous struggle to explore, reclaim, and affirm our nationhood, a mark of our historic identity as stalwarts of resistance and freedom. \n\nPaglaom Padayon is a powerful image of the triumph of the Filipino spirit in every generation, forged by fire and consumed by the passionate flames of desire.","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":9000000,"bp":0.2016,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":9000000,"userBid":34,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":14937,"reserve_price":4500000,"hammer_price":10814400,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":65247,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/186/220/lot/37.jpg","isFeatured":1},{"id":65445,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/186/220/lot/37d.jpg","isFeatured":0},{"id":65444,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/186/220/lot/37c.jpg","isFeatured":0},{"id":65443,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/186/220/lot/37b.jpg","isFeatured":0},{"id":65442,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/186/220/lot/37a.jpg","isFeatured":0}]},"increment":[5500000,6000000,6500000,7000000,7500000,8000000,8500000,9000000,9500000,10000000,11000000,12000000,13000000,14000000,15000000,16000000,17000000,18000000,19000000,20000000],"prev":36,"next":38,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}