{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":22010,"auction_id":23,"set_id":42,"lot_number":"104","artist":"José Joya (1931 - 1995)","title":"Vista Beyond Vision","starting_price":7000000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated March 25, 1981 (lower right)","medium":"acrylic collage","size":"36\" x 52\" (91 cm x 132 cm)","property":null,"coa":"Accompanied by a certificate issued by Mrs. Josefa Joya Baldovino confirming the authenticity of this lot","provenance":"Acquired directly from the artist","exhibited":null,"literature":"Baldovino, Josie Joya et al. Joya. Dick Baldovino Enterprises. Manila. 1996. Plate 131","write_up":"Jose T. Joya’s works were highly figurative and conventionally representational. Indeed, he was one of few Filipino artists who combined a keen intelligence, love of country and a modern sensuality of form that is uniquely ours. As the National Commission for Cultural and the Arts (NCCA) has noted of Joya: “He espoused the value of kinetic energy and spontaneity in painting which became significant artistic values in Philippine art. His paintings clearly show his mastery of ‘gestural paintings’ where the paint is applied intuitively and spontaneously, in broad brush strokes, using brushes or spatula or is directly squeezed from the tube and splashed across the canvas. “
In Joya, as Francisco Arellana has once said, one could see the power of abstraction, which is either only potential or false in others, but becomes an actuality. And his abstraction is total and absolute - Joya’s masterpieces are not of the things of this world - it is extremely unique on its own. And this power is majestically shown in this piece wherein Vista Beyond Vision is infused with both vitality and improvisation, resisting any typical methods of characterisation, with the artist consolidating any remaining subjective elements into purely sensory impressions of light, movement and energy. It presented a singular vision of raw power and energy distilled onto a painting surface rich in both visual and textural detail.
The renowned artist reinterprets the traditional format of landscape painting, recreating an abstract pictorial realm teeming with subdued monochromatic colours accumulating in generous layers of impasto strokes, which are then choreographed into a series of intertwining blocks resembling boulders or masonry, hence the featured masterpiece exemplifies Joya’s working style along with his inner psyche and process of exploration - contemplative in considering the movement of time and its significance as the spirited and restive master of the cosmos, a symbol and measure of past, present and future.","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":"
José Joya (1931 - 1995) Vista Beyond Vision signed and dated March 25, 1981 (lower right) acrylic collage 36\" x 52\" (91 cm x 132 cm)