{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":22259,"auction_id":24,"set_id":43,"lot_number":"168","artist":"Antonio Leaño (b. 1963)","title":"Descendants of Eden I","starting_price":200000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 2017 (lower center) ","medium":"acrylic and pigment ink on canvas","size":"60” x 36” (152 cm x 91 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":null,"exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"The Descendants of Eden series, to which this piece belongs, exhibits Antonio Leaño’s creative venture into what he described as “digital collage.” He showcases appropriated photographs, maps, and scientific illustrations, as well as painterly strokes to create fervent portrayals of the various facets of our individuality. Leaño expounds on critical inquiries on the origin of mankind, plunging into the depths of the historical, biological, and artistic abyss to unravel the profoundness of disintegration and unity.
\nArt critic Carlomar Arcangel Daoana stated, “For Leaño, as descendants of Eden, we are inherently migratory, spreading across the four corners of the world, carrying our cargo of inheritance. This cargo is something we bear on the cellular level: the notion of good and evil, the impulse to create as well as destroy.”
\nLeaño was a university scholar, an alumni scholar, and a Jose Joya scholar during his college days at the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts. He received the first prize in the first Metrobank Foundation National Painting Competition in 1988. A 1994 recipient of the prestigious Cultural Center of the Philippines Thirteen Artists Award, Leaño has had several solo and group exhibitions. At present, Leaño is the museum director, museum designer, curator, and contributing artist of the Pinto Art Museum in Antipolo, Rizal.","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":"
Antonio Leaño (b. 1963) Descendants of Eden I signed and dated 2017 (lower center) acrylic and pigment ink on canvas 60” x 36” (152 cm x 91 cm)