{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":21883,"auction_id":22,"set_id":41,"lot_number":"139","artist":"Augusto Albor (b. 1948)","title":"Untitled (Ether Series)","starting_price":1300000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 2000 (lower left)","medium":"mixed media","size":"72” x 108” (183 cm x 274 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":null,"exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"The paring down process, economy of form, and\nluminous light were championed by the country’s\nforemost abstractionists Fernando Zobel, Arturo\nLuz, and Leandro Locsin. The younger generation\nof abstract artists such as Augusto Albor continue\nto adhere to minimalist aesthetics, zen-like stillness,\nand clean illusionary space. Albor is among the\naccomplished abstractionists during the eighties—\nlike Lao Lianben, Norberto Carating, and Edwin\nWilwayco—who was regularly invited to participate in\ngroup exhibitions abroad.<br /><br />\nThrough his abstract works, Albor shows universal\nthemes or his “liberating forces”: time and place,\nemotion and memory, and transition and permanence.\nHis Ether series, for instance, is created out of his\nexplorations on the expressive qualities of muted colors\n(predominantly gray), line, space, and texture.<br /><br />\nCritic Cid Reyes wrote in the book on the artist and\nhis works, Immaterial: “Albor retains a disdain for\nhedonism—in color, in the showy bravura of surface\nmanipulation, in the deliberate grabbing for attention.\nRather, the artist prefers for his art to distance itself\nfrom the viewer, so that from a certain physical\nperspective and illusionistic ambiguity, the artist may\nlead the viewer into the light and labyrinths of his art.\nFor Albor, the primary of his vision lies in the courtship\nbetween material and image, matter and spirit, nature\nand technology.”<br /><br />\nThis contemplative piece is part of his Ether Series\nin which he renders horizontal lines and uses muted\ncolors with an adherence to minimalist sensibilities.\nBlanketing the pictorial field is a predominance of gray\nthat evokes luminance and invites the viewer to look\ninward, into a state of sustained meditation.","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":1500000,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":1500000,"userBid":5926,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":1752000,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":19804,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/22/41/lot/139.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[900000,1000000,1100000,1200000,1300000,1400000,1500000,1600000,1700000,1800000,1900000,2000000,2200000,2400000,2600000,2800000,3000000,3200000,3400000,3600000,3800000,4000000,4200000,4400000,4600000,4800000,5000000,5500000,6000000,6500000,7000000,7500000,8000000,8500000,9000000,9500000,10000000,11000000,12000000,13000000,14000000,15000000,16000000,17000000,18000000,19000000,20000000],"prev":138,"next":140,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}