{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":22248,"auction_id":24,"set_id":43,"lot_number":"158","artist":"Gus Albor (b. 1948)","title":"Untitled","starting_price":300000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 2001 (lower right)","medium":"mixed media on canvas","size":"72\" x 36\" (183 cm x 91 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":"Private Collection, Manila","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"Augusto Albor’s art, mostly composed of borders on the abstracted images of floating, nothingness and view, is a gestural brushwork and existential angst of an abstract minimalist. His works are a deliberate lack of expressive content wherein, as the artist, he focuses on the informal elements of art making.
Redefining the color spectrum to make his works inexpressive, conceptual, and non - referential which is seen on this oeuvre, Albor allows the audience to instinctively give an immediate visual response - to experience all the more the pure qualities of color, form, space and materials; to explore without the distraction of composition, theme, and other elements - stripped of all thematic or emotional content, just like what the he told PhilStar Global in a 2019 interview, “You don’t have to limit yourself … It’s a never - ending journey of exploration and experimentation,”- an evident outlook on his craftsmanship of turning the best out of a negative space, de - mystifying art in order to reveal its fundamental character where its reality, and what Gus Albor wanted - to portray to delineate space.","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":"
Gus Albor (b. 1948) Untitled signed and dated 2001 (lower right) mixed media on canvas 72\" x 36\" (183 cm x 91 cm)